Sentence examples for drilling about from inspiring English sources

The Offshore Kazakhstan International Operating Company said that it had finished drilling about 45 miles from Atyrau in western Kazakhstan.

A fierce debate, with equal parts art, environmentalism and economics, has erupted over a plan by the state to allow oil drilling about five miles across the lake.

President Bush also announced an agreement to pay $115 million to three oil companies, including the ChevronTexaco Corporation, to buy out offshore oil and gas leases, effectively preventing drilling about 25 miles south of Pensacola.

Enormous questions about industrial noise, truck traffic and new roads gouged into hills; about holding ponds created to trap the polluted and spent water used in drilling; about land reclamation; about the effects on the New York watershed.

Except for the moments when she stopped to read Blake or tell a dumb joke, or when she went off on a riff about the consequences of Arctic drilling (about which there had been an article in a local paper that day), the crowd was dancing and sometimes singing with her, punching their fists in the air during the anthems and swaying with her during the sexier parts.

To install satellite TV, they have to drill about twenty holes through the roof.

The Saudis drilled about 500 wells last year; some 11,000 are drilled every year in the United States alone.

"In Sana, the capital, in the 1980s, you had to drill about 60 meters to find water.

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.