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Drilling is a correct and usable word in written English
It can be used as a verb or a noun. Example Sentence as a verb: My dad is drilling holes in the wall to hang some shelves. Example Sentence as a noun: We went to the store to buy some drillings for the wall.
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drilling
noun
Act of drilling.
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CEO: Rex Tillerson Reported pay*: $33m Big capex milestone: Kara Sea, Russian Arctic After months of drilling around the clock through the short Arctic summer, Exxon Mobil and their Russian partners Rosneft struck oil last year.
The visitors started brightly and Hibs survived some early scares before taking the lead against the run of play, Stokes turning and drilling the ball in from 18 yards midway through the first half.
Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 10.16pm BST22 16 58 min: Andre Schurrle squares the ball through the Algeria penalty area, drilling it low and hard with his right foot.
As the governor of a state regarded as the hotbed for hurricanes and coastal erosion, Bush fought against drilling off the Florida coast and launched a massive Everglades restoration project.
Each household inside the favela makes its own connection to the community's single, slim water pipe, drilling a hole, attaching an elbow joint and running another pipe or hose into their homes.
The hulking, purpose-built Jack/St Malo platform sits in ultra-deep waters of over 2,000m – displacing as much water as 350 jumbo jets would – drilling down to reservoirs 6,000 metres beneath the seabed (approximately 14 Empire State Buildings deep).
[Russian oil company] Lukoil is now drilling three wells in the Ivory Coast, one in Ghana and one in Sierra Leone.
This time the Anglo-Dutch business has led from the front – as it seems to be doing in the race for the Arctic, with its determination to press ahead with drilling off Alaska despite widespread concern about the impact on the environment.
The existence of such gases was undisputed – sextons and undertakers were often called up to "tap" coffins in church vaults, drilling a hole to prevent them breaking open with explosive force.
Las Cruces, just across the border from the Texas panhandle in New Mexico, is drilling down 1,000ft in search of water.
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The first was directional, or horizontal, drilling, followed by the development of pipe and threaded connections that can handle the stresses and pressures inherent in fracked wells that are drilled two miles deep and more than a mile horizontally.Investments in capacity are important, but investments in technology are crucial.
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