Sentence examples for drilling sector from inspiring English sources

HOUSTON (AP) — The oilfield services provider National Oilwell Varco said on Monday that it had agreed to buy the drilling-products maker Grant Prideco Inc. for about $7.37 billion, further consolidating the drilling sector.

Shortages of rigs and personnel have encouraged discussion of designing incentive contracts in the drilling sector.

Shortages of rigs and personnel have encouraged creativity in designing incentive contracts in the drilling sector.

With $90 oil, the international drilling sector waxes strong with price increases for services and hardware coming.

While international positions do not show up in filings, American Depositary Receipts do, and Einhorn likely smelled opportunity in the stock as the entire offshore drilling sector sold off after the Gulf oil spill.

But before the recent disasters, companies in both the financial and oil drilling sectors would have claimed that the events we are now trying to clean up were, well, one-in-a-million risks, suggesting a very low tax.

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"The more salient issue is that DryShips' balance sheet is potentially being deployed as bridge financing for Mr. Economou's long-term entry into the drill-rig sector," says Oppenheimer & Co. analyst Tim J. Tiberio.

The research firm said it scuttled Patterson-UTI Energy from the list after the analyst who covers the stock cut his rating on it to "sell," due to his view of oil drilling and services sector.

A physical model is established according to the site conditions, which includes a sector drill-hole arrangement at different heights.

The expected flow net map was compared with actual flow net map constructed using measured depth to water values in four boreholes drilled by private sector (Table 2).