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...

Oil well fires are oil or gas wells that have caught on fire and burn. They can be the result of accidents, arson, or natural events, such as lightning...

First Oil Well may refer to: Village Bóbrka, near Krosno, Poland, is the site of the very first oil well (1854). Polish inventor Jan Józef Ignacy Łukasiewicz...

isolation of oil, gas and water intervals. However, advances in interventions such as coiled tubing and tractors means that barefoot wells can be successfully...

pipes in an oil well, gas well, water injection well, water disposal well, gas injection well, condensate well, and other types of well. The first primitive...

Kuwaiti oil fires were caused by the Iraqi military setting fire to a reported 605 to 732 oil wells along with an unspecified number of oil filled low-lying...

unprocessed crude oil, as well as to petroleum products that consist of refined crude oil. Petroleum is primarily recovered by oil drilling. Drilling...

1922, the Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Company (HOWCO) was prospering from the Mexia, Texas oil boom, having cemented its 500th well in late summer. In...

uncontrolled release of crude oil and/or natural gas from an oil well or gas well after pressure control systems have failed. Modern wells have blowout preventers...

Oil well control is the management of the dangerous effects caused by the unexpected release of formation fluid, such as natural gas and/or crude oil...