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10 Проте, сьогодні буровий розчин, який використовують при бурінні свердловини, рідко
зберігають у амбарах, тільки у випадку крайньої необхідності.

Speaking Section

13 Make up a dialogue on the following situation and talk to your friend. Let one of your
group mates interpret the dialogue consecutively.

You are a newcomer at the drilling site. Ask your guide to give you information about the
preparation of the site.

Grammar Section

Stylistic features of oil and gas texts
Jargonisms are words with the aim to preserve secrecy within one or another social group.
Jargonisms are generally old words with new meanings imposed on them. They are absolutely
incomprehensible to those outside the social group which has invented them. Jargon may be defined
as a code within a code.
Christmas tree – a term applied to the valves and fittings assembled at the top of a well to
control the flow of oil.
Doghouse – a small house on the rig floor used for keeping records, storage.
To kill a well – to bring high well pressure under control by the use of mud or water so that
the well may be completed, etc.
Rabbit – line cleaning instrument. A small plug that runs through a line.
Professionalisms are words used in a definite trade, profession or calling by people
connected by common interests both at work and at home. Professionalisms are correlated to terms.
They name anew already existing concepts, tools or instruments and have the typical properties of a
special code. The main feature of a professionalism is its technicality. Let us compare
professionalisms and terms:

Terms Professionalisms
Special words in the literary layer that are easily Special words in non-literary layer whose
decoded because their semantic structure is semantic structure is dim, generally they remain
transparent, they often enter the neutral stratum. in circulation within a definite community.

Examples of professionalisms:
Roustabout – a worker on an offshore rig who handles the equipment and supplies that are
sent to the rig from the shore base.
Toolpusher – an employee of a drilling contract who is in charge of the entire drilling crew
and the drilling rig.
Slang – words that are not considered to be part of a standard vocabulary of a language and
that are used very informally in speech especially by a particular group of people.

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