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
• Perhaps there were two different ports at the wellhead for exiting natural gas.
  — Ian Palmer, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
• Petroleum storage tanks, mud pits, reserve pits and other spaces around an oil wellhead can all come with more exposure to chemicals, flammable vapors or gasses that could cause workers to suffocate.
  — Sunny Nagpaul, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Oct 2024