Sentences with phrase «with drilling mud»

Of course, the chances of the top kill succeeding are good but not great; BP's CEO admits the chances of stopping the oil flow with a drilling mud / concrete one - two punch sit somewhere between 60 % and 70 %.

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But the Chikyu will use a new drilling technology, stabilizing and lubricating its borehole with seawater instead of the drilling muds that have often caused contamination in the past.

With the oil staunched, Chu allowed BP to proceed with a so - called «static kill» — another attempt to push the oil back down the well with heavy drilling mud, made much easier by the fact that the oil no longer had a clear path out of the seaflWith the oil staunched, Chu allowed BP to proceed with a so - called «static kill» — another attempt to push the oil back down the well with heavy drilling mud, made much easier by the fact that the oil no longer had a clear path out of the seaflwith a so - called «static kill» — another attempt to push the oil back down the well with heavy drilling mud, made much easier by the fact that the oil no longer had a clear path out of the seaflwith heavy drilling mud, made much easier by the fact that the oil no longer had a clear path out of the seafloor.

It rides on new radial raised - letter tires with mud flaps and the bed has a custom bed cover that was installed on the vehicle and is secured by special clamps that do not require and drill holes.

Other galleries present two of his most ambitious technological experiments, both made in collaboration with engineers: «Oracle (with Billy Klüver, Harold Hodges, Per Biorn, Toby Fitch, and Robert K. Moore)» (1962 — 65), a five - part sculpture that combines salvaged metal and «Mud Muse (with Frank LaHaye, Lewis Ellmore, George Carr, Jim Wilkinson, Carl Adams, and Petrie Mason Robie, 1968 — 71 3.5 tons of drillers» mud, which burbles like a primeval tar pit in syncopation with sound - activated air compressoMud Muse (with Frank LaHaye, Lewis Ellmore, George Carr, Jim Wilkinson, Carl Adams, and Petrie Mason Robie, 1968 — 71 3.5 tons of drillers» mud, which burbles like a primeval tar pit in syncopation with sound - activated air compressomud, which burbles like a primeval tar pit in syncopation with sound - activated air compressors.

Later galleries present two of his most ambitious technological experiments, both made in collaboration with engineers: Oracle (with Billy Klüver, Harold Hodges, Per Biorn, Toby Fitch, and Robert K. Moore, 1962 — 65), a five - part sculpture that combines salvaged metal junkyard treasures with the most advanced wireless transistor circuitry, and Mud Muse (with Frank LaHaye, Lewis Ellmore, George Carr, Jim Wilkinson, Carl Adams, and Petrie Mason Robie, 1968 — 71), a vat of 8,000 pounds of drillers» mud, which burbles like a primeval tar pit in syncopation with sound - activated air compressoMud Muse (with Frank LaHaye, Lewis Ellmore, George Carr, Jim Wilkinson, Carl Adams, and Petrie Mason Robie, 1968 — 71), a vat of 8,000 pounds of drillers» mud, which burbles like a primeval tar pit in syncopation with sound - activated air compressomud, which burbles like a primeval tar pit in syncopation with sound - activated air compressors.

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.

Postscript: Tonight, BP resumed efforts to choke the well with heavy drilling mud, with no assurance of success and two or three more possible solutions in the wings.

As for increased sealife around oil rigs as a good thing (previous comment)-- please note that sea life congregates around outcroppings in the ocean — in the case of oil rigs though, the sea life ends up with dangerously high levels of mercury from mercury contaminated drilling muds.

In any case, unless the boreholes were made with a magic drilling rig, where the drilling head generated no heat, and no fluid or drilling mud was used to flush the drill waste from the hole, the temperatures of the exposed bore walls are useless for anything except rough indications of the local geothermal gradient.

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Knowledgeable, focused, and motivated Mud Logging Well Driller with experience in creating detailed well log records of borehole examinations of rock, sediment, and mud, and producing information on fluid content of the borehole drilling operatioMud Logging Well Driller with experience in creating detailed well log records of borehole examinations of rock, sediment, and mud, and producing information on fluid content of the borehole drilling operatiomud, and producing information on fluid content of the borehole drilling operations.