wellhead

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Recent Examples of wellhead Gauges at wellheads tell the local stories, just like the carbon dioxide detector atop Hawaii’s Mauna Loa has told the global story since 1958. Allen Best, Denver Post, 1 Oct. 2025 Those losses range from geoscientists and petroleum engineers to blue-collar roustabouts and wellhead pumpers. Jordan Blum, Fortune, 13 Sep. 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
  • At a premiere so big you could get lost, a few VIPs had access to a private location on the other side of a white curtain located behind the fountain, near the Met Opera.
    Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The chain also offers a Classic Luxe Box meal for $5, which includes a Beefy 5-Layer Burrito, Crunchy Taco, Cinnamon Twists and a medium fountain drink.
    Kate Perez, USA Today, 17 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • One of the area’s top two-way threats last spring, the senior left-hander/first baseman has been good enough to still be an anchor in the Blackhawks’ batting order and atop the pitching rotation.
    Paul Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Chase Sui Wonders, Rosé, and Amanda Seyfried look coordinated in spring colors at the Tiffany & Co.
    Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 21 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Concerns are growing in Monroe County, Michigan, where some residents in Whiteford Township say their wells are running dry.
    Elaine Rojas-Castillo, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2026
  • One page has handbag ideas, and, true to form, there is a cuckoo-clock purse, a pyramid purse, a purse shaped as a well.
    Adam Moss, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • For the 2006 premiere of The Devil Wears Prada, the star showed up in a striking scarlet gown that matched the film's iconic red font.
    Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 20 Apr. 2026
  • The logos are in different fonts.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026

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“Wellhead.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wellhead. Accessed 25 Apr. 2026.

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