"make exploration" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to suggest the idea of investigating or studying something in greater detail. For example, "We need to make exploration into new markets in order to expand our business."
Also, it is likely that oil and gas explorers will become increasingly worried that falling prices will make exploration uneconomical.
The buyers are hoping that the land will increase in value nonetheless, because of higher energy prices, new technologies that could make exploration and drilling more economical or the emergence of markets for other resources hidden beneath the surface.
Implementing this recommendation is likely to add significantly to the cost of drilling operations – the experts estimate it could be more than £100,000, but other experts suggested it could be many times that for each well, which would make exploration less attractive.
We considered that this approach would make exploration of the implications of the rotated questionnaire design in very different contexts easier and more valid.
With launch costs in the zillions, you'd have to sell alot of merchandise to make exploration of the lava fields of Io worthwhile.
The reality is that rising silver prices will make exploration become more cost-effective and new deposits are likely to be found, but even then Barati's prognosis is grim.
Michael Christie's If I Fall, If I Die follows the troubled childhood of Will, who is fearful of leaving his agoraphobic mother to make explorations "outside" and of confronting the consequences that might follow.
Some schools have made exploration official.
When Mozambique made exploration blocks available in 2006, Eni bid and got the one it wanted.
The ice cap is melting, making exploration and drilling for oil and gas easier.
The idea was not revived until new technology made exploration of the ocean floor possible.
