Sentences with phrase «drilling mud into»
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.
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A good example is that many oil companies don't abandon wells drilled in the 50's 60's and 70's because they know some nasty stuff including radioactive isotopes have been tossed into mud pits and sumps and that it will cost them a small fortune to clean up.
For 2 months in 2013, the JOIDES Resolution, the ship for the International Ocean Discovery Program, drilled into the ocean floor sediments, retrieving cores of mud and rock that were then dated.
Only by drilling two relief wells to connect to the initial hole, then pumping mud and concrete into the gushing pipe could Petroleos Mexicanos, or PeMex, Mexico's national oil company, stop the leak.
Volcanos, geysers, boiling mud pits, petrified lava fields, peculiar rock formations, splashes of paint on martian landscapes — the sights were truly amazing, but less enjoyable when broken down into standardized drills: Drive, step out, take a picture, drive.
About 1974 I was at Prudhoe Bay watching the cuttings from the drill flow into the mud pit.
The options on the table include drilling a relief well, the safest but also slow and costly, and pumping heavy mud into the stricken well from the platform itself, faster but far more dangerous.
During an early December nightshift, an employee of the Respondent, Precision Drilling Canada Limited Partnership, mistakenly mixes sulfamic acid into drilling mud instead of causticDrilling Canada Limited Partnership, mistakenly mixes sulfamic acid into drilling mud instead of causticdrilling mud instead of caustic potash.