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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of overpressure.
  • adjective Subject to excessive pressure

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Examples

  • The Gulf of Mexico is a hard place to drill in general it is famously "overpressured" and gassy, but this well had special challenges.

    What BP should have done Joel Achenbach 2010

  • The Gulf of Mexico is a hard place to drill in general it is famously "overpressured" and gassy, but this well had special challenges.

    What BP should have done Joel Achenbach 2010

  • There, the relative scarcity of good water means that our overpressured streams hold fish that are bombed with so many flies they ought to be issued hard hats.

    FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER MATT LABASH 2010

  • It went off immediately in a blinding flash of white light with a thunderous boom that overpressured the basement.

    Foreign Influence Brad Thor 2010

  • Then the snowpack melts during the March – April hot season, and lo and behold, the moraines get overtopped or overpressured and burst.

    "Heed the Goracle" « Climate Audit 2007

  • And the mark is inflation, inflated America careening wildly like an overpressured balloon over the pit of the Seventies.

    Easy Come, Easy Go Kazin, Alfred 1981

  • And it may just be that we're just far and up north from the NWR that we've gone from a slightly overpressured reservoir, to just a very slightly underpressured reservoir.

    unknown title 2011

  • On those Niobrara wells, the pressure out there, these aren't as overpressured as the wells that we have up in North Dakota.

    unknown title 2011

  • The Haynesville I guess question of whether it's exponential hyperbolic decline, I mean, the charts that you've provided, what sort of the length of production history and what you think is, with your technical background, when do you think we get that answer in such a overpressured gas shale resource?

    unknown title 2011

  • The western border of the overpressured Bakken/Three Forks system has notoriously had better wells with respect to initial production and estimated ultimate recovery.

    unknown title 2011

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