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- Oil well - Wikipedia
An oil well is a drillhole boring in Earth that is designed to bring petroleum oil hydrocarbons to the surface Usually some natural gas is released as associated petroleum gas along with the oil A well that is designed to produce only gas may be termed a gas well
- Completion (oil and gas wells) - Wikipedia
Completion (oil and gas wells) Well completion is the process of making a well ready for production (or injection) after drilling operations This principally involves preparing the bottom of the hole to the required specifications, running in the production tubing and its associated down hole tools as well as perforating and stimulating as
- Oil well fire - Wikipedia
Oil well fires can cause the loss of millions of barrels of crude oil per day Combined with the ecological problems caused by the large amounts of smoke and unburnt petroleum falling back to earth, oil well fires such as those seen in Kuwait in 1991 can cause enormous economic losses
- Blowout (well drilling) - Wikipedia
Modern wells have blowout preventers intended to prevent such an occurrence An accidental spark during a blowout can lead to a catastrophic oil or gas fire Prior to the advent of pressure control equipment in the 1920s, the uncontrolled release of oil and gas from a well while drilling was common and was known as an oil gusher, gusher or wild
- Offshore drilling - Wikipedia
Offshore drilling is a mechanical process where a wellbore is drilled below the seabed It is typically carried out in order to explore for and subsequently extract petroleum that lies in rock formations beneath the seabed
- Well drilling - Wikipedia
Well drilling is the process of drilling a hole in the ground for the extraction of a natural resource such as ground water, brine, natural gas, or petroleum, for the injection of a fluid from surface to a subsurface reservoir or for subsurface formations evaluation or monitoring
- Oil well control - Wikipedia
Oil well control is the management of the dangerous effects caused by the unexpected release of formation fluid, such as natural gas and or crude oil, upon surface equipment of oil or gas drilling rigs and escaping into the atmosphere
- Oil well - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An oil well is a well to get petroleum from the ground People in the petroleum industry look for a place that might have oil They drill a hole deep in the ground and, if the oil is there, then pump it up from the hole Most oil is very deep underground
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