Sentence examples for drilling job from inspiring English sources

It's a task that dwarfs the drilling job the oil companies are doing on Alaska's North Slope.

The rig was 43 days late for starting a new drilling job for BP by the day of the explosion, a delay that had already cost the company more than $21 million.

Instead, skepticism should reign on any drilling job, and testing and evaluation at each stage of the drilling and completion would then be routine; instead of questioning the need for such things as the cement bond log, the companies involved should insist on checking and double-checking quality at each step of the process.

Refinery and drilling jobs have increased, he said, as have jobs in alternative and synthetic fuels.

New York environmental regulators recently published a report indicating that property values go up regionally with an influx of drilling jobs.

While the gas companies have created numerous high-paying drilling jobs, many residents lack the skills for them.

In testimony to government investigators, rig workers repeatedly described a "natural conflict" between BP, which can make more money by completing drilling jobs quickly, and Transocean, which receives a leasing fee from BP every day that it continues drilling.

But he and others in the industry argue that New York's proposed rules, which are undergoing public comment until next Friday, would significantly limit opportunities for both companies and the upstate communities that hope for a surge in drilling jobs and an economic boom.

Cruz avoided the question of whether he wants to abolish the minimum wage (as most of his fellow conservatives do) by talking about $45 an hour oil drilling jobs in North Dakota.

Small drilling jobs can use a Dremel with drill bits.

Even Louisiana's freshman Rep. Jeff Landry (R), who last year held up a sign during Obama's address on jobs that read "Drilling = Jobs," found some common ground for praise, saying he agreed that Washington is broken.