tieback

NOUN
  1. a device (as a decorative loop of cord or fabric) for holding or drawing something back
    the draperies were drawn to the sides by pullbacks
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How To Use tieback In A Sentence

  • The safer method, known as the liner-tieback option, would have provided more barriers to prevent the flow of natural gas up the space between the steel tubes and the well wall. Lawmakers accuse BP of 'shortcuts'
  • Secure the tieback around a pushpin in the window frame.
  • BP could then have performed positive and negative pressure tests on that liner top, before proceeding with a “tieback string” to complete the connection to the wellhead at the seafloor. Deepwater Well Construction 101 | RedState
  • BP could have used a "tieback" method that would have provided twice as much protection, according to evidence released by the House Energy and Commerce FOXNews.com
  • I continue to believe that their decision to run only the long string, rather than a liner/tieback combination, as well as the decisions to not wait on more centralizers or to not circulate bottoms up, was BP and Transocean's concern about getting pipe to bottom and getting cement in place, not money. Robert L. Cavnar: Memo to Spill Commission: Bad Cement Does Not Equal Blowout
  • Behind her, a fan oscillated, stirring the stale air and pulling strands of her hair from the tieback. Side Roads « A Fly in Amber
  • The safer option, known as the liner-tieback option, would have provided more barriers to prevent the flow of natural gas up the space between the steel tubes and the well wall. BP made series of 'shortcuts' on oil well, House Democrats say in letter
  • Also, with a high pressure well, the conventional wisdom would be to run liner, test top of same, then run tieback string. Oil Spill Reality Check, Part II | RedState
  • Behind her, a fan oscillated, stirring the stale air and pulling strands of her hair from the tieback. Side Roads « A Fly in Amber
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