wellbore
nounEtymology From well + bore.
1
The hole produced when drilling an oil or gas well.
- The overflush consisted of 100 bbls of uncrosslinked 3000 ppm polymer, followed by one wellbore volume (~150 bbls) plus 450 bbls crude behind pipe.1995, Proceedings, International Meeting on Petroleum Engineering, page 63:
- Synonyms
- borehole