workover
nounEtymology From work + over.
1
Any kind of oil well intervention involving invasive techniques, such as wireline or snubbing.
- Shell launched a massive "work over" campaign during my second year in Brunei. A work over is basically an existing production well that needs a service.2005, Paul Carter, Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, page 44: