Sentence examples for process of drilling from inspiring English sources

After several failed efforts to plug the leak, the company is now in the process of drilling a relief well.

The company has stopped the flow but is still in the process of drilling a relief well to plug it permanently.

However, that process of drilling 8,000ft to intersect with a pipe that is seven inches in diameter – without hitting another pipe and springing another leak – is immensely complicated.

The New Yorker, April 26 , 1993P. 120 SHOUTS AND MURMURS about the city of Las Vegas, Nevada, buying Nevada's Pleistocene water (fossil water) through a process of drilling its saturated valleys, removing the fossil water to a central place, and then pumping it on to the south.

By John McPhee The New Yorker, April 26 , 1993P. 120 SHOUTS AND MURMURS about the city of Las Vegas, Nevada, buying Nevada's Pleistocene water (fossil water) through a process of drilling its saturated valleys, removing the fossil water to a central place, and then pumping it on to the south.

BP's computer centre in the Gulf of Mexico operates at 270 teraflops (270 trillion calculations per second), nearly 3,000 times faster than a decade ago.When seismic surveys show that there is a good chance of finding oil, companies set about the delicate process of drilling an exploratory well.

Micro-EDM is a machining process capable of drilling burr-free holes in a wide range of materials.

Cuadrilla has taken over the site in the hope that modern technology − including refined drilling processes, the possibility of drilling horizontal wells branching off the main vertical well, and if these techniques fail, the use of fracking − will make the site economically viable for oil extraction.

Previously an expensive and tricky process of chemically drilling a hole, coating it with copper, and relying on surface tension to properly direct the solder was used.

In the process of well drilling, various complex problems happen, such as borehole wall slabbing and collapse and serious fluid leakage.

The uncertainty regarding the dimensions and exact location of the geothermal resource, along with the cost of drilling process of geothermal wells, are usually two factors that hinder the wider use of high enthalpy geothermal energy to generate electricity.