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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wellhead
Noun
  • Refreshers are also priced higher than fountain drinks and are more profitable compared to food offerings, especially as protein prices rise.
    Jordan Valinsky, CNN Money, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Michelle said medical professionals at the hospital told her that Juan drowned after his leg got caught in the lake's fountain, trapping him under the water.
    Nicole Comstock, CBS News, 28 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The third course is dover sole meunière accompanied by potato pavé, spring ramps, snow peas and parsley oil.
    Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2026
  • The magenta off-the-shoulder mini dress, with a bubble-like top and sweeping back train, was courtesy of Balenciaga designer Pierpaolo Piccioli’s spring 2026 collection.
    Christian Allaire, Vogue, 28 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Having your own well shouldn’t get you off the hook.
    DP Opinion, Denver Post, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Until authorities grant the camp permission to build a well, water is supplied from a tank which is prone to elephant damage.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The artifacts included a bronze crucifix, a silver trowel and a christening spoon, as well as a silver key, a 19th-century Russian icon depicting Jesus on the cross and a silver medal from 1964 showing Christ with open arms, surrounded by Greek letters in a Byzantine-style font.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 1 May 2026
  • By Wednesday’s Game 5 of this first-round playoff series against the Toronto Raptors, the motto had drifted down toward the bottom of the giveaways, and the font size shrank.
    Eric Koreen, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2026

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“Wellhead.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wellhead. Accessed 2 May. 2026.

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