caddilac
v.— «What a good well. We’re sitting there, cadillacing at 8 million a day and they are going to co-mingle on upper zone. And we really don’t know what that upper zone is capable of doing, but if its 50% of what the lower one is doing, you’re looking at a well that’s going to produce in excess of 10 million a day.» —“Q1 2005 Parallel Petroleum Corporation Earnings Conference Call – Final” Fair Disclosure Wire May 10, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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