"You need generous setbacks that protect homes and schools and water sources from drilling, sometimes farther than the drillers would want.
In addition, increasing product demands harvested from regions open for exploration will push drilling operations farther out into deeper waters, amplifying risks, and making any necessary spill response interventions more difficult.
It drilled down farther (e.g., "people who like NASCAR voted for Trump and Clinton") by looking at which candidate won at a particular caucus location.
Neil Johnson, a physicist at the University of Miami in Florida, says that if researchers could drill down even farther into the Google Trends data so that they could view changes in search terms on a daily or even an hourly basis they might be able to predict a rise or fall in stock prices.
On Thursday morning, miners deep in the fourth bore of the Caldecott Tunnel spent 10 grueling hours drilling six feet farther into the bedrock.
Historically, most human interaction with the ocean world has been limited to shallow coastal areas, for fisheries, recreation, oil drilling, etc. Farther offshore, most human experience has been limited to ship travel across the two-dimensional sea surface, ignoring the dark realm deep beneath the waves.
You have to go down a certain distance, return to the surface, then drill down a little farther, over and over, until you can go no deeper.
For 20 years the oil industry has pushed farther offshore, drilling 14,000 wells in water depths of more than 700 feet, into ever trickier reservoirs, with higher pressures and temperatures (and very few serious accidents).
Jackson RB et al. (2013) reported that concentrations of methane, ethane, and propane in the Marcellus region of Pennsylvania were higher in homes located < 1 km from drilling sites than in homes farther away.
