Sentence examples for drilling sectors from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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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.

But the Kazakhstan government was in no mood to take chances and told the polluter, OKIOC (Offshore Kazakhstan International Operating Company), to suspend its drilling in the Kazakh sector of the Caspian Sea while the incident was investigated.For years, ecologists have given warning that the development of Kazakhstan's oil deposits in the Caspian threatens the sea's flora and fauna.

Refiners and drilling companies were the sector's sweethearts, posting annual gains of 62% and 45%, respectively.