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petrol station

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A service station that sells gasoline.

aquifer

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A body of permeable rock which can contain groundwater.

mud pit

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tank near the rig into which drilling mud is circulated. Mud pumps withdraw the mud from one end of the pit as the circulated mud (bearing rock chips from the borehole) flows in ...

oil field

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a region with an abundance of oil wells extracting petroleum (crude oil) from below ground. Because the oil reservoirs typically extend over a large area, possibly several hundred ...

right-of-way

Oil & gas; Oil

the cleared area along the road alignment that contains the roadbed, ditches, road slopes, and back slopes.

oil spill

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an oil spill is the release of a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into the environment due to human activity, and is a form of pollution. The term often refers to marine oil spills, ...

oil platform

Oil & gas; Oil

an offshore platform, often referred to as an oil platform or an oil rig, is a lаrge structure used to house workers and machinery needed to drill wells in the ocean bed, extract ...