high-pressure well
high-pressure well
[′hī ¦presh·ər ′wel] (petroleum engineering)
A well with a shut-in wellhead pressure of more than 2000 pounds per square inch absolute (1.4 × 107 pascals absolute).
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
References in periodicals archive
The rigs can operate in water depths of up to 350 feet, and drill
high-pressure wells of down to 30,000 feet.
If your system was designed to flow
high-pressure wells into a high pressure pipeline, it is virtually guaranteed that the pipe diameters are restrictive and some additional debottlenecking lines should be installed.
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