Sentence examples for sand drilling from inspiring English sources

As the shale gas industry grows it consumes material – water, sand, drilling fluids, chemical treatments – and this requires transport by road and rail.

Inside the prison workshop, inmates are busy sanding, drilling, staining and painting, always under the watch of corrections officers.

A basement or garage woodworking shop is ideal, but any place where you can do the cutting, carving, sanding, drilling, and painting required will work.

Much of the investment and new discoveries are in shale oil and gas, tar sands, deepwater drilling.

In a projection for 2030 made earlier in the year, BP said OPEC would be "primarily" responsible for meeting growing demand for liquid fuels, although it mentioned Canadian oil sands, deepwater drilling off Brazil, and the countries that made up the former Soviet Union as promising sources of future supplies.

Based on the statistics on gas-bearing sand bodies drilled by horizontal well drilling, the drilled gas-bearing sand bodies are 670 1300 m long.

But on the next hole, a par-3 that looks like an oasis in a desert of sand, he drilled the ball onto the green, 213 yards away.

Cleverly using his own Bond-mania to underscore the hold that 007 exerted over male Britons of a certain age, Mr. Winder recalls preparing for his first real job as a bookseller abroad: rushing to a gentlemens clothing store called Tropiccadilly, which specialized in late imperial nonsense like bewildering hats and devastating tropical weight sand-drill suits, to purchase Bond-inspired gear.

Oil sands drill cuttings waste represents one of the most difficult challenges for the oil sands mining sector.

Reducing the amount oil sands drill cutting waste sent to landfill offers one of the best solutions for waste management.

In this study, the physical, chemical and mineralogical characteristics of the treated oil sands drill cuttings waste were investigated.