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  2. Oil well - Wikipedia

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    An oil well is a drillhole boring in Earth that is designed to bring petroleum oil hydrocarbons to the surface. Usually some natural gas is released as associated petroleum gas along with the oil. A well that is designed to produce only gas may be termed a gas well .

  3. Sandbox game - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft subsequently enhanced the MinecraftEDU version of the game into Minecraft: Education Edition (now known as Minecraft Education) that gives teachers and students numerous pre-made resources to work from, and the ability for teachers to monitor and assist students in their work, but otherwise allowing students to create and learn ...

  4. Extraction of petroleum - Wikipedia

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    Oil rigs and oil platforms are used to drill long holes into the earth to create an oil well and extract petroleum. After extraction, oil is refined to make gasoline and other products such as tires and refrigerators. Extraction of petroleum can be dangerous and have led to oil spills. [1]

  5. Oil field engine - Wikipedia

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    Initially, the steam engine used for drilling the well was kept in-place to lift the oil to the surface. As the well's production dropped off, the economic feasibility of firing a boiler and maintaining a steam operation at each individual well fell far short of the income from the well's production (often only a fraction of a barrel per day.)

  6. List of abbreviations in oil and gas exploration and production

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    WOC – water/oil contact (or oil/water contact) WOE – well operations engineer (a key person of well services [citation needed]) WOM – wait/waiting on material; WOR – water-oil ratio; WORKO – workover; WOS – west of Shetland, oil province on the UKCS; WOW – wait/waiting on weather; WP – well proposal or working pressure

  7. Gas flare - Wikipedia

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    Flare stack at the Shell Haven refinery in England. A gas flare, alternatively known as a flare stack, flare boom, ground flare, or flare pit, is a gas combustion device used in places such as petroleum refineries, chemical plants and natural gas processing plants, oil or gas extraction sites having oil wells, gas wells, offshore oil and gas rigs and landfills.

  8. Player versus player - Wikipedia

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    PvP is often controversial when used in role-playing games. In most cases, there are vast differences in abilities between players. PvP can even encourage experienced players to immediately attack and kill inexperienced players. [3] PvP is often referred to as player killing in the cases of games which contain, but do not focus on, such ...

  9. Downhole oil–water separation technology - Wikipedia

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    An oil producing well is usually completed to pump all produced fluids to the surface where the fluids will be separated into their constituent components. In the early life of most oil producing wells, more petroleum will usually be produced than produced water. The produced water is considered to be wastewater that will need to be treated.