Sentences with phrase «began drilling wells»

In December, power company Crump Geothermal began drilling wells around a geyser in southern Oregon.

In the 1970s, villages began drilling wells to prevent the deadly infectious diseases that flourished in warm, sewage - tainted surface waters.

Not exact matches

ExxonMobil started its humble beginning in 1859 when Colonel Edwin Drake and Uncle Billy Smith drill the first successful oil well in Titusville, Pennsylvania which led to the oil gold rush.

«The issuance of the drilling permit and plans for Phase 1 exploration drilling program at Copper Duke is a milestone for the company as it represents the beginning of testing of one of the world's best undrilled gold - copper porphyry targets,» said Core Gold CEO Keith Piggott.

Tott were not the well drilled unit that they look now, not in the beginning they weren't, they took time, longer than it took Chelsea.

The second half began in much the same vein, with Palace pressing to little effect, their best early opportunity falling to captain Jason Puncheon who drilled a half - chance wide.

New York hasn't issued permits for shale gas wells using horizontal drilling and fracking since it began its review of the controversial technology in 2008.

That decision caused Ghana's TEN field to begin production with 11 of the planned 24 wells, as no new wells could be drilled until the dispute was settled.

In September 2009, Range Resources began drilling a natural gas well near the home of Beth Voyles in one of the most heavily drilled counties in southwestern Pennsylvania.

On the afternoon of May 26, BP technicians fired up pumps rated at a total of 30,000 horsepower and began shooting heavy drilling mud into the well.

The team also is seeking additional funding to begin monitoring groundwater wells near wastewater injection wells, where fracking brine is deposited after the wells are drilled.

From June 2010 through June 2013 there were four mass strandings of dead dolphins on Gulf coast beaches stretching from the Texas — Louisiana border into Florida — three after the beginning of the disaster on the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform that saw BP's Macondo well blow out.

• Baseline ground water quality data should be taken before drilling begins and be monitored over the lifetime and abandonment of the gas - producing well.

A short distance away from the murky pond, an oil services company had begun pumping millions of gallons of drilling waste into an injection well.

While we are moving earth, felling trees, drilling the well and digging the septic system on a beautiful piece of land, we recognize that Inner Fire itself is the beginning of a movement offering a choice to those who do not want to be medicated.

The beginning position for this drill is a deep flat foot squat; the lower the better, as long as it does not prove injurious to your knees.

Once I began incorporating drills right into my workout, I began instantly seeing some good results, thus the post I mentioned above.

Attempts to ingest knowledge by repeating lists of facts or drilling on routine procedures don't work well, not even for the basics of multiplication tables or beginning reading, not to mention historical or scientific concepts.

The boom from the first oil find was so spectacular that after the hundreds of wells already put in had begun to run dry, drillers attempted to expand their area of operations uncomfortably close to Santa Barbara.

While youve got that bad boy spinning, its easy to lunge forth and feel like hell on wheels, but when youre relegating to head - bashing status using the drill as the butt of a gun, the illusion of being a true Big Daddy begins to fade slightly, but well revisit that later.

Early Sunday morning, Shell's Noble Discoverer drill ship sank a bit into the Burger Prospect, about 70 miles off the Alaska coast, the beginning of a 1,400 - foot pilot hole that will form the basis for a mile - deep exploration well.

Drill we must, but it will take 10 years for one drop of oil to come out of any of the wells that are going to begun to be drilled.

Shell suspended drilling in the Arctic... for 2013: While it wasn't a permanent, outright abandonment from exploratory drilling in the Arctic, the various failures Shell faced earlier in the year made it clear that drilling in that part of the world requires a lot of planning and contingency measures — and perhaps isn't such a good idea to begin with.

In addition, beginning with the first modern oil well drilled in 1859 in Titusville, Pennslyvania, petroleum oil became easier to obtain than whale oil.

Production per well from all wells drilled from the beginning of 2010, till May, 2014 comes out to about 103,000 barrels of oil equivalent.