"drill about" is not a correct phrase.
A more correct way to phrase it would be "drill on/about." Example: The teacher conducted a drill on fire safety in the classroom.
To install satellite TV, they have to drill about twenty holes through the roof.
"In Sana, the capital, in the 1980s, you had to drill about 60 meters to find water.
But it's important to me to go through this little drill about what my purpose is before I get out of bed every morning".
The lander will drill about eight inches into 67P and extract a sample, which will be heated in a small oven so that the gases coming off the sample can be analyzed in detail.
With the pay hike Lonmin gave to buy peace, he makes about $800 for 27 long shifts a month, deep in the tunnels, manipulating a drill about the size of a jousting lance.
Mr. Boras said that EnCana would drill about 40percentt fewer wells this year but that the cutbacks would not affect its plans to move into the Bow, which is named after the river bordering downtown.
The Saudis drilled about 500 wells last year; some 11,000 are drilled every year in the United States alone.
The Offshore Kazakhstan International Operating Company said that it had finished drilling about 45 miles from Atyrau in western Kazakhstan.
Dr. Martin and Howard D. Scher, a graduate student, have sifted through a core of ocean sediment drilled about 700 miles southwest of Cape Town.
During medical school, every doctor is drilled about the importance of a complete history and physical exam.
So far the natural gas industry has drilled about 6,000 Marcellus wells using a combination of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling.
