Sentence examples for as drilling progresses from inspiring English sources

A major complexity associated with this operation is the uncertainty in the transport phenomena of generated cuttings as drilling progresses under different attainable configurations and fluid rheological conditions.

Coleman and a team back in Houston have decided that the casing, the tube that is dropped down in increasingly narrow segments as drilling progresses, in order to maintain the integrity of the well, has probably gotten out of round or developed a spur of some kind.

Residents near those sites -- in neighborhoods like Clinton, the West and East Villages, the Lower East Side and Turtle Bay -- are bracing for disruptions as the drilling progresses.

As the drill progresses through the rock and sand below the seabed, the pressure of the mud in the drill string must be kept within a limited range.

Drilling progress was as planned down to around 2000 m when drilling became quite challenging, including becoming stuck at 2094 and 2095 m depth, followed by twist offs and subsequent side tracking.

With the exception of Britain, which recently lifted a moratorium on test drilling, progress is slow.

As the drilling operation progresses from normal to abnormal formation pressure, variations in drilling performance (bit performance and mud logging data) and rock properties provide direct indications of changes in formation pressures, where the drilling progress will be faster for the abnormally high pore pressure than that slower one of the normal compacted formation.

Over the years, with increasing experience, the technique of optic canal drilling progressed.

Particularly, this model takes into account the fact that the drillstring length increases as drilling operation makes progress.

John Priscu, a geologist specializing in Antarctica at Montana State University, who has kept in contact with scientists in Antarctica and in Russia as the drilling has progressed, said that the anticipation had grown in the past two weeks as the drilling team finally came close to the lake surface just as the Antarctic summer was ending and the weather worsening.

The evaluation of the decline in crude oil quality associated with biodegradation has become critical in recent years as offshore drilling has progressed into deeper water horizons.