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IMPENDING BLOWOUT [3 records]

Record 1 2001-05-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Production
DEF

To blow out; to kick.

CONT

... the well will "come to see you" if a blowout occurs.

OBS

[Term] descriptive of [an] impending blowout.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Production pétrolière

Spanish

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Record 2 2000-04-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary
DEF

That is about to occur.

CONT

Impending stoppage of work.

CONT

Animals ... sense impending earthquakes, intuit human emotions ...

CONT

Impending blowout.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général
CONT

Arrêt d'ouvrage imminent.

Spanish

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Record 3 2000-03-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Drilling
DEF

The early manifestations of a blowout; indications that a blowout is about to occur.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole

Spanish

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