wellhead

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Recent Examples of wellhead 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 The small business has been documenting the preservation process on their Instagram, most recently with this cast stone wellhead that was recovered from the actor's former estate, as well as these steel bay casement windows. Natalia Senanayake, People.com, 27 May 2025 Companies like the one Gonzalez worked for offered $10,000 per week to contract drivers who brought sand from the new mines spreading across old ranches to the wellheads. Saul Elbein, The Hill, 3 Mar. 2025 This argument is weakened by the lucrative nature of the Permian industry, where in 1921 the equivalent oil and gas revenue at the wellhead was $24 billion per year—assuredly an underestimate of the situation in 2025. Ian Dexter Palmer, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for wellhead
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Noun
  • Charles-Haden Savage (Steve Martin), Mabel Mora (Selena Gomez) and Oliver Putnam (Martin Short) discovered Lester’s lifeless body submerged in an Arconia fountain in the Season 4 finale.
    Erin Jensen, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • After the building's beloved doorman, Lester (Teddy Coluca), is found dead in the courtyard's fountain, the group comes together once again to get to the bottom of the mystery.
    Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • And the 30-year-old Marinaccio was among the most impressive and talked-about relievers in Padres camp this spring.
    Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2025
  • The fact that the Sherman Oaks crape myrtles were winter-pruned could not have had any effect on flowering since crape myrtles are among those trees whose flower buds are formed in spring or even later in the growing season.
    Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Operational sites, with wells drilled, monitoring installed, pipelines or ships connected, regulators satisfied, communities convinced, and capital actually deployed.
    Phil De Luna, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Underground hydrogen was discovered by chance when crews were digging a well in Mali in the 1980s, according to reporting from Science.
    Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The Toronto International Film Festival was also a font of high-end timepieces, with celebrities fancying up their wrists for the red carpet.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 13 Sep. 2025
  • However, although font sizes, boldface, italic, and underlining were supported, colors (and, additionally, font sizes) were still selected by traditional Mac pulldown menus.
    Cameron Kaiser, ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025

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“Wellhead.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wellhead. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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