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Glossary Oil and Gas Field Operations / Term

Blowout

An uncontrolled flow of pressurized wellbore fluids and/or formation fluids out of the wellbore or into lower pressured subsurface zones (underground blowout) due to the release of pressure in a reservoir or the failure of containment systems.

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