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Drilling pad

Term · Environment · MLC-T-ENV-008554

A location which houses the wellheads for a number of horizontally drilled wells. The benefit of a drilling pad is that operators can drill multiple wells in a shorter time than they might with just one well per site.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ENV-008554
FieldEnvironment
SubjectBuilt environments
ReferencesEPA EV-Built Environments-Energy Generation
Record as JSON 
{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-008554",
  "term": "Drilling pad",
  "field": "Environment",
  "term_source": "Drilling Pad",
  "definition": "A location which houses the wellheads for a number of horizontally drilled wells. The benefit of a drilling pad is that operators can drill multiple wells in a shorter time than they might with just one well per site.",
  "subject": "Built environments",
  "references": [
    "EPA EV-Built Environments-Energy Generation"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/drilling-pad/"
}

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