Sentence examples for start of drilling from inspiring English sources

Admiral Allen said workers could begin the procedure called a static kill on Aug. 2, followed by the start of drilling into the bottom of the stricken well.

Nevertheless, the start of drilling culminated six years of legal and regulatory struggles and appeared to assure more exploration next summer.

Michael Foot's death inevitably makes me think again of the Falklands war, though the islands have been in the headlines recently over the renewed Anglo-Argentinian row over the start of drilling for oil in south Atlantic Falklands waters.

And Gulf Keystone Petroleum has reported that exploratory drilling at its Shaikan-1 well in Kurdistan has delivered excellent results: Shaikan-1 has exceeded the most optimistic prognosis held at the start of drilling.

"Containment is goal," an engineer wrote on May 2. The same day another engineer noted that a rig to drill the first of two relief wells — the ultimate solution to stopping the gusher — was in place at the site, but that weather was delaying the start of drilling.

For a while, these tensions led to fatal clashes that delayed the start of drilling the borehole.

The group warned that, even as the Obama administration moves toward approving the start of exploratory drilling this summer, critical research remains incomplete and spill response plans have yet to be tested.

In dynamic conditions, the start of the drilling plays an important part.

As my colleague John Cassidy notes, students around the country have been trained to turn their phones to silent at the start of a drill.

At the start of the drills, on Saturday morning, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi appeared on television to say that he would pray for the victims of the mah-jongg fire.

Russia announced the start of military drills on Monday involving more than 45,000 troops as well as war planes and submarines.