How to Use wellhead in a Sentence

wellhead

noun

• The Russian army sent a Rapira anti-tank gun and crew to shell the wellhead.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 8 June 2020
• Mr. Lane said that during the last few attempts, the liquid came up around the wellhead at the surface.
  — Henry Fountain, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2016
• 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
• They weren’t fazed by the sight of steel pipes at a nearby geothermal wellhead.
  — Amy Yee, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2018
• 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
• The blowout preventer fails, the wellhead explodes, and oil starts to flow into the Gulf of Mexico.
  — Brandon Keim, WIRED, 3 June 2011
• The process will involve pumping heavy fluids down two three-inch lines placed inside the wellhead.
  — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 24 May 2010
• The gun crew fired repeatedly at the wellhead from a distance of 180 meters.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 8 June 2020
• 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
• Release of unburned gas from a wellhead is called venting.
  — Ian Palmer, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2022
• North Dakota, which has a statewide cap on flaring extra gas produced at a wellhead.
  — Judith Kohler, The Denver Post, 11 Aug. 2019
• 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
• Two geothermal wellheads at the plant were covered by lava on May 28.
  — Fox News, 1 June 2018
• 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
• To control that pressure, workers mount hulking assemblages of steel valves and piping—the frac stacks—at the wellhead.
  — Popular Science, 5 Oct. 2020
• Three strikes destroyed four tanker trucks and the head of an oil well on Tuesday, and strikes on Thursday destroyed eight fuel trucks and seven wellheads, the statements said.
  — Anne Barnard and Mark Mazzetti, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2016
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Deep-sea coral's exposure was especially high because the broken wellhead was at the Gulf's bottom, at a depth of about 5,000 feet.
  — Tristan Baurick, NOLA.com, 11 Jan. 2018
• Significant oil still is stored in tanks near wellheads and transported by truck.
  — Bruce Finley, The Denver Post, 27 Oct. 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Wittpenn/Bloomberg Perched on the back of a semi-trailer is the latest weapon in tackling the problem of wasted natural gas that oil producers often vent into the air or even burn off at the wellhead.
  — Anna Shiryaevskaya, Bloomberg.com, 10 May 2020
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024