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1. vb. [Well Completions]

To assemble components to ensure that all critical length dimensions are met, as is required to ensure that the production tubing can be landed in the wellhead and production packer with the desired weight distribution. The term also may apply to surface pressure-control equipment offshore, where well intervention equipment may be required at certain deck levels.

See: production packerproduction tubing