Sentence examples for pumping down from inspiring English sources

Attempts to relieve the pressure by pumping down heavy fluids, known as drilling mud, were unsuccessful.

"I don't think the answer is, I'm going to charge a lot for all of those gigabits we are pumping down the pipe," he added.

Gas prospecting requires something called "fracking", or hydraulic fracturing: pumping down millions of gallons of chemically treated water into the earth to crack open the rock and release the precious gas.

To minimise the footprint, the building that will become a new station entrance doubles up as a five-floor storage and construction site, stacked with cranes, machinery and materials right up to the air conditioning system on the roof (pumping down air as fresh as can be found in the notoriously polluted Oxford Street).

After pumping down to 2 × 10−3 Pa, the quartz tube was sealed and thermal treated in the furnace.

Rushton Turbines, six Pitched Blade impellers pumping down and hydrofoil impellers Techmix 335 (Techmix co., Czech republic) pumping up or down and their combinations were used.

Oil companies use CO2; once pumped down, it is trapped there.

So I readjusted my snorkel, inhaled and pumped down toward the reef.

Fracking breaks gas from its underground fetters using water pumped down from above.

Water is pumped down through the smaller shaft to raise a piston in the larger shaft.

Cold water is pumped down a deep borehole and returns superheated to spin a turbine.