Sentence examples for drilling pipe from inspiring English sources
The drilling pipe, which comes down from the rig through the riser, is usually about half a foot in diameter and is surrounded inside the well by a larger pipe that forms the permanent casing for the finished well.
Technicians from BP, the company that leased the drilling rig, said Monday that they were continuing to suction oil from the drilling pipe lying on the ocean floor 5,000 feet below the surface.
Most of the time the device, commonly called a B.O.P., does little but sit on the seabed as drilling pipe and liquids travel through its main bore, which is usually about a foot and a half wide.
On January 10 , 1901 at a thousand and twenty feet — almost precisely the depth predicted by Higgins's wild guess — the well suddenly vomited mud, and then ejected six tons of drilling pipe clear over the top of the derrick.
They wondered if the blades had by chance closed uselessly on one of the nearly indestructible joints that connect drilling pipe -- a significant bit of misfortune, given a decision years before to outfit the Deepwater Horizon's blowout preventer with just one blind shear ram when other rigs were already beginning to use two of them to guard against just this possibility.
In the gulf, efforts continued to stop the oil flowing from the damaged well, as BP said it was moving forward with several strategies to try to contain the spill, including inserting a tube into the broken drilling pipe to draw the oil out.
Highly flammable, the gas was forcing its way up the drilling pipes.
They decided to begin pumping seawater into the drilling pipes, displacing the heavy mud that usually fills them.
If the drilling wastewater is not treated properly or if it seeps through cracked drilling pipes, it could contaminate drinking water.
This is the giant Japanese Chikyu vessel, which is capable of carrying 10km of drilling pipes.
Cut drill pipe was found inside the blowout preventer, suggesting to investigators that its shear rams, which are supposed to cut through drill pipe and form a seal, at least partly closed at some point.
