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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wellhead
Noun
  • But the lava fountains were creating trouble for neighboring communities and a highway where the volcanic fragments and ash, known as tephra, was falling.
    ABC News, ABC News, 10 Mar. 2026
  • In the center of the design sat a running water fountain that spilled out into a pool below.
    Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 9 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • This is the second warning about Southwest in a year, after the county previously warned of possible exposures there last spring.
    Jemma Stephenson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Under the merger, which is expected to close in spring or early summer, both brands will maintain their own line of products and retail locations.
    Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 11 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The land contains several monitoring wells to measure groundwater contamination, Jost said.
    Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 8 Mar. 2026
  • The city estimates about 165 wells are impacted, serving roughly 475 people in the area.
    Brad Hamilton, CBS News, 7 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • It was meant to look like a stiletto blade from the Renaissance period, when the banking families were literally fighting each other to create these fonts of generational wealth.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2026
  • The name on the front of the shirt looks too small, like it could’ve been bumped up to a larger font.
    Johnny Flores Jr, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2026

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“Wellhead.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wellhead. Accessed 12 Mar. 2026.

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