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Meaning of "oil well" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF OIL WELL

oil well play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OIL WELL

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Oil well is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES OIL WELL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

oil well

Oil well

An oil well is a boring into the Earth that is designed to bring petroleum oil hydrocarbons to the surface. Usually some natural gas is produced along with the oil. A well that is designed to produce mainly or only gas may be termed a gas well.

Definition of oil well in the English dictionary

The definition of oil well in the dictionary is a boring into the earth or sea bed for the extraction of petroleum.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OIL WELL

oil pollution
oil press
oil pressure
oil producer
oil refinery
oil rig
Oil Rivers
oil sand
oil shale
oil sheik
oil slick
oil spill
oil storage tank
oil stove
oil tank
oil tanker
oil terminal
oil the wheels
oil varnish
oil-based paint

WORDS THAT END LIKE OIL WELL

all very well
artesian well
as well
Caldwell
carbon well
development well
dwell
farewell
gas well
just as well
Lowell
maxwell
Orwell
potential well
Powell
Rockwell
the worried well
well
wishing well
worried well

Synonyms and antonyms of oil well in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «oil well» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF OIL WELL

Find out the translation of oil well to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of oil well from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «oil well» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

油井
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

pozo petrolero
570 millions of speakers

English

oil well
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

तेल अच्छी तरह से
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

بِئْرُ بِتْرُولٍ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

нефтяная скважина
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

poço petrolífero
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

তেল ভাল
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

puits de pétrole
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Minyak dengan baik
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Ölquelle
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

油井戸
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

유정
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Lenga uga
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

giếng dầu
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

எண்ணெய் கிணறு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

तेल विहीर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

petrol kuyusu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pozzo di petrolio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

szyb naftowy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

нафтова свердловина
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

sondă de petrol
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πετρελαιοπηγή
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

olie goed
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

oljekälla
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

oljebrønn
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of oil well

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «OIL WELL»

The term «oil well» is regularly used and occupies the 65.974 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «OIL WELL» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about oil well

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OIL WELL»

Discover the use of oil well in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to oil well and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Oil Well Testing Handbook
This is a valuable addition to any reservoir engineer's library, containing the basics of well testing methods as well as all of the latest developments in the field.
Amanat Chaudhry, 2004
2
Roughnecks, Rock Bits and Rigs: The Evolution of Oil Well ...
This spirit of innovation and ingenuity is captured in accounts of the evolution of drilling processes and equipment, as well as in the personal stories of those who worked on the rigs.
Sandy Gow, Bonar Alexander Gow, 2005
3
Bioaccumulation in Marine Organisms: Effect of Contaminants ...
This book summarizes the bioavailability and marine ecotoxicology of metal and organic contaminants that may occur in oil well produced water at concentrations significantly higher than those in ambient seawater.
J.M. Neff, 2002
4
Advanced Well Completion Engineering
With this book, drilling and production engineers should be able to improve operational efficiency by applying the latest state of the art technology in all facets of well completion during development drilling-completion and work over ...
Wan Renpu, 2011
5
History of oil well drilling
History of Oil Well Drilling, records the beginning and development of the oil well industry from early water and brine well drilling to the vast oil industry of today.
John Edward Brantly, 1971
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Well Production Practical Handbook
Useful for petroleum engineers and oil field operators. Distributed by Enfield. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Henri Cholet, 2000
7
Gas Lift Manual
Gas lifting, in particular, heavily relies on the proper calculation of pressure drops in oil well tubing, making this topic of prime importance for anyone involved in gas lifting. Without a proper knowledge of multiphase behavior and without a ...
Gábor Takács, 2005
8
Gas Well Deliquification
The most common application of an acoustic liquid level instrument is to shoot the fluid level in the casing annulus of an oil well. A less common technique is to acquire an acoustic fluid level by “shooting” down the tubing in a flowing or shut- in ...
James F. Lea, Henry V. Nickens, Mike Wells, 2008
9
Petroleum Production Engineering, A Computer-Assisted Approach
Understanding wellbore flow performance is vitally important to production engineers for designing oil well equipment and optimizing well production conditions. Oil can be produced through tubing, casing, or both in an oil well depending on ...
Boyun Guo, PhD, William C. Lyons, Ph.D., P.E., Ali Ghalambor, PhD, 2011
10
Historical Atlas of Oklahoma
The maturity of the industry is highlighted by the fact that in 2004 the average production rate for an oil well in Oklahoma is only slightly more than 2 barrels per day. Consumption of petroleum products in Oklahoma is about 50 percent greater ...
Charles Robert Goins, Danney Goble, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OIL WELL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term oil well is used in the context of the following news items.
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Derrick Day celebration slated at Penn Brad Oil Museum
Antique oilfield engines will be cranked up, a drilling rig will demonstrate how an oil well is created and oil field tales will abound during the ... «Bradford Era, Jul 15»
2
Oil spill brings call for Shenango Valley water conservation
The source of the spill is believed to be from an oil well across the state line along Orangeville and Thompson Sharpsville Roads in Brookfield. «WFMJ, Jul 15»
3
Kemp: ND oil well completions slow sharply
LONDON -- No new well completion reports have been filed in North Dakota since July 10, the longest gap this year, according to daily activity ... «Dickinson Press, Jul 15»
4
North Dakota oil well completions slow sharply: Kemp
LONDON No new well completion reports have been filed in North Dakota since July 10, the longest gap this year, according to daily activity ... «Reuters, Jul 15»
5
Fire in ONGC oil well at Olpad, Surat
The Minister of State (I/C) for Petroleum & Natural Gas Shri Dharmendra Pradhan informed the Rajya Sabha in a written reply today that Oil ... «Business Standard, Jul 15»
6
All the good oil on the Mazda CX-3 Limited
In the background is New Zealand's oldest producing oil well - in fact the well is sucking crude from the second-oldest producing oil field in the ... «The Southland Times, Jul 15»
7
World Bank raises oil forecast-but don't get hopeful
An oil well in the Permian Basin is shown in Garden City, Texas, Feb. 5, 2015. Natural gas fell 13 percent during the time period, while coal saw ... «CNBC, Jul 15»
8
Why all of Indian country is fighting a new Montana oil well
Longwell's proposed oil well would be drilled on a small ridge above a tributary of the Two Medicine River, in a landscape the Blackfeet have ... «High Country News, Jul 15»
9
St. Tammany Parish orders work to halt on controversial fracking well
Advocate Photo by Ramon Roberts -- St. Tammany Parish officials on Monday ordered Helis Oil & Gas to stop work on its controversial oil well, ... «The New Orleans Advocate, Jul 15»
10
Group reports oil leak from Shell's Adibawa Oil Well 8
Yenagoa – Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth, Nigeria (ERA/FoEN), an environmental pressure group has reported that there is ... «Nigerian Observer, Jul 15»

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