Sentences with phrase «reach oil deposits»

It will go down vertically for the first 1.1 miles, then bend eastward toward the fault at a 50 degree angle for another 1.8 miles, using the directional drilling techniques invented to allow more complete extraction of tough - to - reach oil deposits.

Not exact matches

This serves as the perfect glue for attaching the oil - loving molecules, which are deposited in a second step; they hold onto the metal oxide layer with one end and reach out to grab oil molecules with the other.

All the big oil companies are beginning to tap hard - to - reach deposits by using 3 - D seismic imaging and computer - controlled sensors to detect where pockets of oil are located in a well.

Oil companies used to avoid salt, sometimes drilling around it to reach deep deposits.

The offshore gas and oil industry is long established and is reaching ever greater depths in the sea in its quest for new and major deposits — for instance in the Gulf of Mexico and off the coast of Brazil.

Professional diver Peter (Hennie) becomes dangerously obsessed with reaching the bottom of the sea to retrieve the gas and oil deposits discovered there and slowly begins to lose his grip on the larger power struggles at play.