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well drilled in the ground or the seabed to recover hydrocarbons
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oil well

Summary

oil well ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,337 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • oil well is a type of well[2].
  • oil well's Commons category is recorded as Oil wells[3].
  • oil well comprises wellhead[4].
  • oil well comprises Casing string[5].
  • oil well's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Oil wells[6].
  • oil well's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as man_made=petroleum_well[7].
  • oil well's has characteristic is recorded as azimuth[8].
  • oil well's has characteristic is recorded as gradient[9].
  • oil well's has characteristic is recorded as geographic location[10].
  • oil well's different from is recorded as gas and oil well[11].
  • oil well's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000003[12].
  • oil well's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject Climate change[13].

Body

Definition and Type

oil well is a type of well[2].

Use and Application

Components include wellhead[4] and Casing string[5].

Why It Matters

oil well ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,337 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] It is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 9d ago · Rémi sim · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    On focus list of wikimedia project → WikiProject Climate change
    Different from → gas and oil well
    Subclass of → —
    Has parts → —
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P4980]]: T96-695, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/42482958|puits de pétrole (#42482958)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/1095|Thésaurus Archite"
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