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ˈoil well
Also oil-well, oilwell.
[f. oil n.1 + well n.1]
A shaft sunk to obtain oil or from which oil is obtained. Freq. attrib.
1847L. Collins Hist. Sk. Kentucky 249 The American Oil well is situated three miles above Burksville. 1861Chem. News 28 Sept. 164/2 He states that the yield from the wells has greatly decreased, and that the oil well region, for practical working, is of very limited extent. 1903G. H. Montague Rise & Progress Standard Oil Co. i. 4 With the success of Drake's oil-well at Titusville, Pennsylvania, in 1859, refiners had been released from the necessity of distilling coal into petroleum before refining petroleum into kerosene. 1946Mod. Petroleum Technol. (Inst. Petroleum) 86 There are two main systems employed in drilling oil-wells: (1) the rotary or mud-flush system, and (2) the cable-tool or percussion system. 1946Nature 20 July 84/1 The oil industry uses large quantities of nitroglycerine explosives..in the so-called oil-well ‘shooting’, where the explosives are employed to shatter the underground formation and thus open up fissures through which the oil may flow freely to the well. 1976Globe & Mail (Toronto) 4 Feb. 7/4 The study made conclusions similar to those of Dr. Pimlott, saying existing technology could not cope with an oilwell blowout in the Beaufort Sea. |