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oil well

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oil well [′ȯil ‚wel]
(petroleum engineering)
A hole drilled (usually vertically) into an oil reservoir for the purpose of recovering the oil trapped in porous formations.
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The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) said in a statement its fighters had destroyed two of Chevron's oil wells at Makaraba and the Otunana oil well in Nigeria's southern Delta state.
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