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static kills

static kills is the plural of static kill.

Meaning of static kill

Noun

static kill (plural static kills)

  1. (oil industry) a method of closing an oil well, in which the blowout preventer has been tripped and has closed off oil flow; by pumping in drilling fluid (synthetic mud) through the blowout preventer down the borehole, to push down the artesian oil to contain the oil in its reservoir, and following with concrete (cement) to plug the hole

Questions about static kills

What is static kills the plural of?
Static kills is the plural of static kill.

Words near static kills in the dictionary

  1. static firing
  2. static friction
  3. static IP address
  4. static IP addresses
  5. static kill
  6. static kills
  7. static language
  8. static languages
  9. static line
  10. static lines
  11. static load

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