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- verb Plural form of
pumpjack .
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Examples
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Above, oil pumpjacks, operate at a state-owned Cupet facility along the northern coast of Cuba.
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Here, pumpjacks operate at Chevron wells in California.
Solid Data Put Oil Back Over $80 Brian Baskin 2010
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Jenner: I've always called them pumpjacks, although a certain local columnist here insists their proper name is "pumping units."
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I nosed around on the Internet a little and found many references to them as pumpjacks, but learned that other names for them include: nodding donkey, horsehead pump, beam pump, sucker rod pump, grasshopper pump, thirsty bird and jack pump -- as well as pumpjack ... and pumping unit.
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The drive from Hobbs to Artesia passes along miles of nodding pumpjacks; oil trucks clog the road, and the air is heavy with the industrial odour of the refineries.
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The drive from Hobbs to Artesia passes along miles of nodding pumpjacks; oil trucks clog the road, and the air is heavy with the industrial odour of the refineries.
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For decades it had been assumed that one oil field, the historic Inglewood, just minutes from the downtown skyline, would eventually play out, that the nodding pumpjacks would give way to an elaborately planned, two square-mile park.
SFGate: Top News Stories By NOAKI SCHWARTZ 2010
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The drive from Hobbs to Artesia passes along miles of nodding pumpjacks; oil trucks clog the road, and the air is heavy with the industrial odour of the refineries.
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Her husband, Charlie Fairbank, runs five-employee Fairbank Oil in the town of Oil Springs, shipping relatively small amounts of crude - 24,000 barrels a year from 320 pumpjacks - to the massive Imperial Oil refinery in Sarnia.
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The thousands upon thousands of pumpjacks ( "nodding donkey" oil pumps) that now extract the dregs of the USA's oil inheritance are primarily powered by electricity from coal-fired and nuclear power plants.
Energy Bulletin - 2009
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