Sentence examples for string of pipe from inspiring English sources

If pressure rises and holds, that would be a sign that the casing — the 13,000-foot string of pipe that lines the well bore — is undamaged.

A 21-year-old college student accused in a string of pipe bombings told a county officer he wanted to make a smiley face pattern with his targets, investigators said today.

Rush Limbaugh, the grandfather of conservative conspiracy talk radio, took to the airwaves as the news of the bombs developed to opine, with absolutely no evidence, that the string of pipe bombs could be a false flag from the Left.

Because a string of drill pipe, along with the rotating bit at its cutting end, tends to go this way and that, drillers need critical information about the location of a well as it is being drilled.

Other oil companies have also pointed to BP's decision to run a single "long string" of production pipe from the top of the well to the bottom as a problem, claiming that an alternative approach which puts a physical barrier around the production pipe at an intermediate depth offers greater safety.

Using an experimental oil-drilling ship in the Pacific off Mexico's coast, he put, as Life magazine said afterward, "a string of drill pipe two miles down to the floor of the open Pacific and brought up the first rock cores".

Based on the related theories of pipe string mechanics, the effects of true axial force and effective axial force on the riser mechanical behavior were analyzed.

Drill strings, the interlocking sections of pipe that are used in offshore drilling, are heavy: the pipe used by Transocean, an offshore-drilling company, weighs over 30kg per metre, for example.

The committee leaders said that shortly before the blowout, BP engineers chose a faster, less expensive design for the final string of casing, the steel pipe that lines the well.

One of these is poor design of drill strings with selection of pipes with too much resistance that are more expensive (Jahromi 1986).

That's enough that it has ordered custom-designed rigs that, it says, cut costs and increase safety by automating the process of adding a 30-foot length of pipe to the drill string.