| 单词 |
step-out |
| 释义 |
ˈstep-out Oil Industry.
[f. vbl. phr. to step out: see step v. 27.]
In full step-out well. A well drilled beyond the established area of an oil or gas field to find out if it extends further.
1948Bull. Amer. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists XXXIII. 1082 Step-out well No. 55, 1 kilometer east of No. 26, is now drilling. 1955N.Y. Times 28 Aug. i. 72 Common practice is to drill ‘step outs’ at specified distances in all four directions from a discovery well. 1962F. E. Wellings in M. J. Wells Oil Industry Tomorrow 32 Step-out wells make [sic] the usual division between exploratory wells and development wells. In development wells, if they are intelligently done, the percentage of success is very high,..but less so for the step-out wells. 1977Offshore Engineer Aug. 19/3 Well 3/8-3, south of Ninian, found a hydrocarbon accumulation which has been extended into block 3/7 to the west with a step-out. 1979Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts CXXVII. 407/1 The Gas Council..have indicated a wish to sink step-out wells on the Goathorn Peninsula and on the Studland Peninsula. |
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