Sentence examples for drilling were not from inspiring English sources

Florida, Delaware and Maryland – where governors are opposed to drilling – were not included in the five-year plan.

While the United States has only 3percentt of the world's proven oil reserves, it has potential to increase this reserve many-fold if drilling were not obstructed by environmental activists in the many areas of high-resource potential within United States-controlled lands.

Single inversion results identify seawater intrusion, although the sedimentary layers detected in exploration drilling were not well differentiated.

Disputes over the location of the drilling are not uncommon.

The drilling was not believed to be in hotly disputed waters.

Its big bets on gas and Alaskan drilling are not going well.

More drilling is not the answer; it is only postponing the inevitable.

I agree that offshore drilling is not the answer, and I am perplexed that the American public seems to think we can "drill our way out of this".

But he noted that "you never get to prove anything until you actually start drilling" and that drilling was not going to begin until 2015 or 2016, at the earliest.

BP and Transocean officials said the pressure that was building in the oil and gas reserve that the rig was drilling was not exceptional.

The pressure to resume deep-water drilling is not going away, even if Judge Feldman's ruling is overturned on appeal.