Sentence examples for methods of drilling from inspiring English sources

But it is also fact that oilmen have devised methods of drilling Arctic turf that leave scarcely a scratch.

The oil and gas industry in north-east Scotland has been warned it needs to adjust to the challenges and opportunities from "fracking" and other unconventional methods of drilling.

In case you hadn't heard, the Bakken in real life is an oil-rich underground rock formation where, beginning in 2006, new methods of drilling have allowed companies to extract unprecedented amounts of fossil fuels, spurring an all-out, old-fashioned oil boom in North Dakota.

For one, she and her son, Sean Lennon, who is 37, recently started Artists Against Fracking, a group opposed to that method of drilling for natural gas.

The proposal to allow horizontal hydraulic fracturing, a method of drilling for natural gas involving the injection of millions of gallons of chemically laced water, has caused a furor around the state.

The governor's chat in-box was overwhelmed by opponents of the state's tentative plan to allow hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking, a controversial method of drilling for natural gas.

— If Otsego County were Hollywood, then its debate over hydraulic fracturing, the contentious method of drilling for natural gas, would be resolved as it is in the movie "Promised Land," which opened here over the weekend at the Southside Mall.

VANCOUVER, CANADA A controversial method of drilling for natural gas, called fracking, has boomed in recent years as have concerns over its potential to cause environmental contamination and harm human health.

Slant, or directional, drilling is a method of drilling horizontally underground to maximize shale access.

Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, is the most common method of drilling to release gas from shale rock.

Pithole Creek did not attract the same attention from speculators and investors, who preferred to risk their money on the tried-and-true method of drilling on flatter terrain near large rivers like the Allegheny and Oil Creek, rather than gamble on rougher terrain.