wellhead

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Recent Examples of wellhead Those losses range from geoscientists and petroleum engineers to blue-collar roustabouts and wellhead pumpers. Jordan Blum, Fortune, 13 Sep. 2025 But those benefits may come at a cost for thousands of students in New Mexico whose schools sit near pipelines, wellheads and flare stacks. Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2025 This past August, the EU organization passed the EU Methane Regulation which has stronger restrictions to report methane emissions from leaks in wellheads, storage tanks, pipelines, liquefaction of LNG, and transport of LNG from export terminals to import terminals in Europe. Ian Dexter Palmer, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024 Due to the high cost of shipping oil to market from North Dakota, crude prices at the wellhead hovered just above $30/bbl at a time when West Texas Intermediate was selling above $55 in Cushing, Oklahoma. Jim Krane, Foreign Affairs, 26 May 2015 See All Example Sentences for wellhead
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Noun
  • Also planned are an 8- to-10-foot-wide synthetic turf strip, hose bibs, drinking fountains, boulders and log agility features.
    Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Dubbed Blue Palms, the chic villa sports an aquamarine waterfall fountain out front and an ocean-facing infinity pool out back.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 16 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Kuhr first assumed interim defensive coordinator duties last spring when Williams left the team due to another medical scare separate from his cancer diagnosis.
    Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 18 Feb. 2026
  • So this goes on a couple more times, well into the spring.
    Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 18 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Included in their selection, though, is bottled Pilsner, white wine, prosecco, Weinschorle (a German wine spritzer), the odd and intense combination of prosecco and Red Bull, and of course, your standard house/well cocktails.
    Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Trump’s presidential campaigns embody this well – with stump speeches that center the concerns of the middle class while attacking wealthy elites.
    Alexa Beck, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Last November, following its Hong Kong flagship by Victoria Harbour landing the top spot on The World’s 50 Best Hotels ranking for the first time, Rosewood introduced a new font for the Rosewood wordmark, a new signature color shade called discovery green, and a new RW monogram logo.
    Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Some are small, occupying a floor of an office building; others, including the University of Southern California and Arizona State University, have their own buildings emblazoned with their school’s logo in massive font.
    Rose Horowitch, The Atlantic, 18 Feb. 2026

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“Wellhead.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wellhead. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.

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