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Discover LudwigThe phrase "relief well" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a secondary well that is drilled to relieve pressure from a primary well, often to prevent a potential oil spill or other disaster. Example: The company drilled a relief well to alleviate the pressure in the main well, ensuring that there wouldn't be a catastrophic spill.
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Work on Relief Well Delayed The threat of bad weather has caused BP to delay work on the relief well that is meant to be the last nail in the coffin of the company's once-gushing Macondo well.
The relief well can intercept both.
After four failed attempts, a relief well was finally drilled.
Relief Well Reaches Target NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The federal government says a relief well has intersected BP's blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico.
Crews need first to remove sediment in the relief well that is being drilled simultaneously.
But officials emphasized that the real solution to the spill was the relief well.
An adjoining relief well had already been completed, and Macondo got a final wallop of cement.
"But the whole thing will not be done until the relief well is completed".
Meanwhile, crews will be completing the final 100 feet of the first relief well.
"Everybody is in agreement we need to proceed with the relief well," he said.
A relief well is being drilled to block the leaking well.
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