How to Use wellhead in a Sentence

wellhead

noun
  • They weren’t fazed by the sight of steel pipes at a nearby geothermal wellhead.
    — Amy Yee, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2018
  • The process will involve pumping heavy fluids down two three-inch lines placed inside the wellhead.
    — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 24 May 2010
  • Methane comes up as a byproduct in crude production and is often flared at the wellhead.
    — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Nov. 2021
  • The Russian army sent a Rapira anti-tank gun and crew to shell the wellhead.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 8 June 2020
  • North Dakota, which has a statewide cap on flaring extra gas produced at a wellhead.
    — Judith Kohler, The Denver Post, 11 Aug. 2019
  • Significant oil still is stored in tanks near wellheads and transported by truck.
    — Bruce Finley, The Denver Post, 27 Oct. 2019
  • Apply a uniform carbon price regime at the mine mouth, the wellhead, and the port-of-entry for the fuels.
    — Ed Hirs, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
  • In order to drill and cap the methane pocket and free the men, a 30-ton gas wellhead is needed.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 25 June 2021
  • For 87 straight days, oil and methane gas spewed from an uncapped wellhead 1 mile below the surface of the ocean.
    — Cnn Staff, CNN, 22 Dec. 2019
  • Two geothermal wellheads at the plant were covered by lava on May 28.
    — Fox News, 1 June 2018
  • The riser is a pipeline that extends from the wellhead to the surface oil production platform.
    — Ryan Maye Handy, Houston Chronicle, 2 May 2018
  • Now a blue wellhead stood about ten feet tall, near a pump house the size of a shipping container, several yellow tanks, and a bunch of hoses.
    — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2022
  • To control that pressure, workers mount hulking assemblages of steel valves and piping—the frac stacks—at the wellhead.
    — Popular Science, 5 Oct. 2020
  • Within 16 miles of the leaking wellhead, at least 81 coral colonies were sickened and injured.
    — Robin Catalano, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 June 2024
  • The gun crew fired repeatedly at the wellhead from a distance of 180 meters.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 8 June 2020
  • Perhaps there were two different ports at the wellhead for exiting natural gas.
    — Ian Palmer, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Refining allows Exxon to earn money right along the fossil fuel supply chain, from the wellhead to the gas tank.
    — Kevin Crowley, Fortune, 23 Sep. 2023
  • Flow lines typically are connected to a wellhead and carry fluids or gas to other parts of the network.
    — Judith Kohler, The Denver Post, 5 Sep. 2019
  • But the rate at which methane escapes from wellheads and pipelines and even city utilities’ underground pipes has been a point of contention for some time.
    — James Osborne, Houston Chronicle, 11 Apr. 2018
  • Fire officials also said that the home’s proximity to the wellhead was not a factor in the explosion.
    — Amelia Arvesen, The Denver Post, 3 May 2017
  • Most oil and gas companies know methane is either leaking from pipelines and processing plants or being burned at the wellhead.
    — University Of Houston Energy Fellows, Forbes, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Many companies opt to simply burn much of the gas away at the wellhead rather than possibly lose money transporting and selling the cheap gas.
    — Jordan Blum, Houston Chronicle, 6 Nov. 2019
  • The blowout preventer fails, the wellhead explodes, and oil starts to flow into the Gulf of Mexico.
    — Brandon Keim, WIRED, 3 June 2011
  • The fermentation process releases carbon dioxide, which is captured in a large flue, then sent by pipeline to a wellhead.
    — Eric Toensmeier, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2020
  • The wellhead and casing were still in place, providing a way for naturally occurring salty brine to leach upward onto the ground.
    — M.d. Johnson, Field & Stream, 11 July 2024
  • The three wells need to be properly sealed with cement and capped with a metal plate, with environmental hazards such as wellheads or above-ground pipe removed.
    — Alex Demarban, Alaska Dispatch News, 4 Oct. 2017
  • The wellhead then closes, and the water remains under high pressure, keeping energy stored in the reservoir for days if necessary.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 31 May 2024
  • In the old days of oil and gas, most companies were vertically integrated with ownership of assets from the wellhead to the retail pump.
    — Muqsit Ashraf, Forbes, 23 June 2021
  • The case before the court centered on an invention for protecting oil wellhead equipment during the hydraulic fracturing process.
    — Brent Kendall, WSJ, 24 Apr. 2018
  • The wellhead and valve assembly suddenly jacked up 3 feet and struck the roof of a well house, causing damage to equipment that led to the uncontrolled release of oil and gas.
    — Alex Demarban, Alaska Dispatch News, 31 Oct. 2017

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