Sentence examples for months to drill from inspiring English sources

It could take months to drill, however.

A big deepwater drilling rig costs half a million dollars a day to rent, and can take three months to drill a complicated well.

According to the E.I.A., the first horizontal shale well drilled by PetroChina, the Chinese oil and gas firm that has been exploring shale most aggressively, took 11 months to drill compared with the usual two weeks in North America.

This could take six months to drill but, said Boxall, would be an "an order of magnitude easier" than Deepwater because the platform itself is in shallower water of 93 metres in depth.

Earlier, it revealed it could take six months to drill a relief well to stop the leak.

As I write this, Total is fighting a natural gas blowout in the North Sea and may need months to drill a relief well.

It could take three months for BP to drill relief wells to stop the leak.

While the causes of the accident on BP's rig, called Deepwater Horizon, may take months to determine, drilling down 10,000 feet or more is inherently risky because of the extreme heat and pressure at those depths.

At that rate, the spill could eclipse the worst oil spill in U.S. history – the 11 million gallons that leaked from the grounded tanker Exxon Valdez in Alaska's Prince William Sound in 1989 – in the three months it could take to drill a relief well and plug the gushing well 5,000 feet underwater on the sea floor.

"When I look at a guy who has to report to drill every month, as a manager and as a hirer, I have to think about that," he said.

Dubos began to drill with diligent, laborious work, and after ≈6 months, he had drilled a 1.5-inch hole, 30 inches deep into the rock without finding water.