Surface facilities.

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This drawing is simpler and a little more to scale, plus it also shows some of the larger surface features of an active gas well.  These surface features/equipment include:  The well head and its ipes connected on the top of the casing and tubing.  A tank for oil at an oil well or at a gas well sometimes for brine or other liquids that sometimes comes up with the gas from some formations/locations.  Some kind of metering/measuring system.  The pipeline gathering the gas from the well and piping it to market.  (An oil well would also have a big suspended arm rocked back and for the called a “pump-jack”, and it would have either a tank for the oil or a pipeline to a tank for oil from several wells.)  Other features such as a pit for drilling fluids were there during the drilling, but have been removed once the well is ready for production.

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