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Examples of slang:
Fish – any object that has been unintentionally dropped and lost down the wellbore. Fishing
is the act of using specialized tools to retrieve a fish.
Worm – an inexperienced oilfield worker that is not yet a "hand".
Pig – a device with blades or brushes inserted into a pipeline or cleaning purposes. The
pressure of the oil or gas behind pushes the pig along to clean out rust, wax, scale and debris.
Personification is a figure of speech in which a thing, an idea or an animal is given human
attributes. The non-human objects are portrayed in such a way that we feel they have the ability to
act like human beings. For example, when we say, “The sky weeps” we are giving the sky the
ability to cry, which is a human quality. Thus, we can say that the sky has been personified in the
given sentence.
Examples of metaphors:
The bottom of the stack will sit in the cellar, below ground level.
The oil industry extended its search for oil and gas to all corners of the globe.

14 Define whether the following words are terms or professionalisms and translate them into
Ukrainian.
Derrick, toolpusher, mast, joint, to make hole, drawworks, polyurethane, cat line, doghouse,
casing, kelly, roustabout, seismic records, trip, blowout, associated gas.

15 Find and explain stylistic means that are used in the following sentences.
1 The rig boss may have the intriguing title of “toolpusher"; or, rig workers may call him or her the
“rig superintendent," or the “rig manager."
2 Nowadays, the drilling industry leans towards the term rig superintendent or rig manager for the
person in charge.
3 Petroleum is optically active — that is, it is able to rotate the plane of polarized light.
4 When crew members are ready to add the joint to the drill string as the hole deepens, they add it
from the mousehole.
5 The inorganic theory of the origin of petroleum makes it necessary for the oil and gas to have
migrated great distances to be found in the places they now occupy.

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