Sentence examples for drilling and operating from inspiring English sources

BP, which leased the platform from Transocean, has said that drilling and operating relief wells to plug the runaway well may cost as much as $300 million, but those same wells will eventually be used to produce profitable oil.

A review of more than 9,000 wells, using data from 2003 to 2009, shows that — based on widely used industry assumptions about the market price of gas and the cost of drilling and operating a well — less than 10 percent of the wells had recouped their estimated costs by the time they were seven years old.

"[W]e intend to bring US-style shale drilling and operating expertise, completion techniques and cost structure to the Vaca Muerta, which we believe will prove transformative for the play," McClendon stated in an AEP press release announcing the deal.

Mr. Uhlmann said that if the federal government took an extremely aggressive approach, it might try to argue in court that suspension or debarment should also be applied to the company's federal drilling and operating licenses — potentially, a devastating blow.

However, failings in the management of drilling and operating conditions sometimes result in catastrophes such as well collapse or fluid loss.

Accordingly, using a stability criterion of ±4.0e−4, the wellbore will be diagnosed to be totally unstable irrespective of the drilling and operating condition (Figs. 9, 10).

In practice, however, the number of deep pressure monitoring wells that an operator can deploy often remains limited because of the high costs associated with drilling, instrumenting, and operating these wells.

Whether starting new congregations, working to eradicate malaria in the developing world, drilling wells and operating clinics and hospitals in rural villages in Africa, or addressing the needs of people anywhere seeking to fill spiritual voids in their lives, the work of Methodist people together is more important than the divisions that might otherwise cause the church to split apart.

Older fields like those in the United States are drying up, and the number of wells that are easy to drill and operate is winnowing.

The data show that while there are some very active wells, they are often surrounded by vast zones of less-productive wells that in some cases cost more to drill and operate than the gas they produce is worth.

(3) You must take all necessary precautions to keep your wells under control at all times, use only contractors or employees trained and competent to drill and operate the wells, and use only oil field equipment and practices generally used in the industry.