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Its steel pipes are used for oil wells.
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Ricky Sayer, CBS News, 8 May 2026
The project plowed through tar and oil wells that needed to be capped.
—Steve Scauzillo, Daily News, 7 May 2026
Iranian Vice President Esmael Saghab Esfahani said any strike on the country’s oil wells would prompt a retaliatory attack, according to a statement carried by the semiofficial Mehr News Agency.
—Sarah Dean, NBC news, 25 Apr. 2026
That certainly has been the case with orphaned oil wells, which also were built with promises of safety.
—Anna Clark, ProPublica, 24 Apr. 2026
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Ricky Sayer, CBS News, 8 May 2026
The project plowed through tar and oil wells that needed to be capped.
—Steve Scauzillo, Daily News, 7 May 2026
Iranian Vice President Esmael Saghab Esfahani said any strike on the country’s oil wells would prompt a retaliatory attack, according to a statement carried by the semiofficial Mehr News Agency.
—Sarah Dean, NBC news, 25 Apr. 2026
That certainly has been the case with orphaned oil wells, which also were built with promises of safety.
—Anna Clark, ProPublica, 24 Apr. 2026
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“Oil well.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oil%20well. Accessed 11 May. 2026.
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