Sentences with phrase «giant drilling well»

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The oil giant Shell has been granted permission by the US government to drill two exploratory wells in the Beaufort Sea and three in the Chukchi Sea, both north of Alaska, this year — between 15 July and late September.

After the last of the fallen soldiers and civilians are buried, the Saudis and Kuwaitis — and the Iraqis — will return to the battered oilfields, uncap the wells and let it flow leaks are stanched and moratoriums lifted, the world's oil giants will return to the deep and far oil frontiers, drill new wells and let it flow.

Officials from both the oil giant and the government gave the impression Thursday morning that their efforts to plug the gushing well with heavy drilling mud were working — even though the company had stopped pumping mud around midnight on Wednesday.