Terms beginning with B

Background radiation

Back-pressure

Back-up curve

Back-up galvanometer

Ball sealers

Barefoot completion

Barite

Barn

Barrel

Basalt

Base

Base exchange

Base-line shift

Basement

Basin

Bearing

Bed

Bedding planes

Bedrock

Bed thickness

B electrode

Bentonite

Beta particle

BHT

Bi-metallism

Bit

Blasting cap

Blind ram

Blind zone

BLM

Blowout

Blowout preventer

Blue pattern

Boiling point

Bomb

Bond

Bond index

BOP

Borehole

Borehole camera

Borehole compensated sonic log

Borehole effect

Borehole gravimeter

Borehole gravity meter

Borehole log

Borehole televiewer

Borehole volume

Bottom-hole pressure

Bouguer anomaly

Bouguer correction

Bound water

Brackish water

Break circulation

Breccia

Brick-wall effect

Bridge

Bridge plug

Bridle

Brine

British thermal unit

Bubble flow

Bubble point

Bubble-point pressure

Bucking electrodes

Bulk density

Bulk modulus

Bulk volume water

Bullet

Bull plug

Bureau of Land Management

Button

Buoyancy