Wellbore

A wellbore is a fancy term for the hole that goes into the ground when companies are looking for oil, gas, and water. It’s basically the well itself, which is sometimes “cased” (surrounded by steel or cement to make sure it’s sturdy and not noodly) or sometimes “uncased.” Special equipment is needed to go that deep (deeper than a Walt Whitman poem).

Why “wellbore”? Well, it’s for creating a ”well” by “boring” a hole into the ground.

Say it with us: wellbore.