Sentence examples for drilling world from inspiring English sources

Austin's visibility in the drilling world rose last year when Statoil, a Norwegian energy giant, bought Austin-based Brigham Exploration, an oil exploration and production company, for $4.7 billion.

But that's life in our oil-addicted, rush-to-drill world.

BP's business strategy depends on its ability to keep pushing the frontiers of oil exploration: drilling the world's deepest wells and probing the corners of the Arctic for deposits.

If possible, interview someone who participated in an air raid drill during World War II to solicit his or her input on why such drills were performed and under what pretenses.

What kind of drills had World Trade Center employees performed before 9/11, according to the report?

From Boston to London to Chicago this year, Kenya's marathon men have smashed course records in frenzied fashion, and they drilled the world record in Berlin.

IN 1896, a Californian entrepreneur drilled the world's first offshore oil well from a jetty stretching out into the Pacific near Santa Barbara.

There will also be two more people on the coaching staff for next week's training drills: the World Cup-winning England fly-half Jonny Wilkinson and the Australian flanker, currently at Wasps, George Smith.

IN OCTOBER 1947 a group of engineers from Kerr-McGee, an American oil company, drilled the world's first offshore oil well that was completely out of sight of land.

Beginning in 1820, important mining companies were formed to exploit Pennsylvania's deposits of hard and soft coal, and in 1859 Edwin L. Drake drilled the world's first successful oil well at Titusville.

Last year, it had drilled the world's deepest well at 10,680 meters of rock and water.