Sentence examples for pockets of oil from inspiring English sources

At the shoreline, pockets of oil will certainly linger.

Thanks to seismic probes and satellite imaging, new pockets of oil are being found all the time".

Pockets of oil have remained in coarse shorefront sediments, where they have continued to affect other life, the study said.

8 P.M. (National Geographic ALASKAA'S LAST OIL The easy pockets of oil have dwindled, leaving suppliers desperate to find new sources.

Pockets of oil and water form a petroleum reservoir, and water levels in a well rise with time to fill the space left by the oil extracted.

In the midwinter gloom of Alaska's Arctic, the annual rush is on to probe the North Slope for undiscovered pockets of oil.

Higher taxes encourage us to drive less, meaning less greenhouse emissions, and they put money into the treasury instead of into the pockets of oil-producing nations.

If the pocket of oil and gas that was punctured by the rig is small, the environmental damage would be minimal and easily controlled, they said.

On the day your correspondent was present, the crew drilled an elaborate multi-directional well that twisted and turned its way to a giant pocket of oil 28,000 feet away from the platform.

On the Ursa platform, for example, the drillers that hit that pocket of oil 28,000 feet away did so without extreme effort and without risking having their fingers chopped off by whirling pipes.

When the Deepwater Horizon rig, drilling an exploratory well deep into rock through a mile of water and three miles into the ocean floor off the Louisiana coast, struck a highly pressurized pocket of oil and gas, causing an explosion, it was in some ways a consequence of this iterative, competitive game, each generation of discoveries pushing further into the unknown.