Sentence examples for sold drilling from inspiring English sources

After moving here in 2005, she sold drilling rights on her property for a mere $180 after, as she recalled it, a gas company representative convinced her only one well might be drilled.

The film shows numerous cases of homeowners who sold drilling rights to their land only to find that after the drilling their water became unusable -- harming their own living circumstances and totally trashing future land values.

The BLM, the nation's largest landlord, sold drilling rights to 810,000 acres in 2015.

Mr. Lawitts said the city had no plans to sell drilling rights.

When oil and gas were discovered on his property, he began selling drilling leases to major companies, using the proceeds to buy more and more land.

Later the clan made a fortune selling drilling rights to an international oil firm and moved into the new drugs market.

Or it simply answers the question ("living in Yorkshire, selling drill bits") and we move on.

And he looks a bit sad, like he's a couple of steps away from selling drill bits on a home shopping network while dressed up like this.

ANCHORAGE (AP) -- A federal judge on Wednesday stopped companies from developing oil and gas wells on leases off Alaska's northwest coast, saying the federal government failed to follow environmental law before it sold the drilling rights.

It has increased the number of leases sold for drilling on federal lands and, most incongruously, rushed through the process that might, by the end of this month, enable Shell to prospect in the highly vulnerable Arctic waters of the Chukchi Sea.

On Dec. 19, close to 400,000 acres of America's redrock wilderness -- much of it adjacent to Arches and Canyonlands national parks and Dinosaur National Monument -- were to be sold for drilling to the highest bidders.