Conventional drilling refers to the traditional method of drilling for natural resources, such as oil or gas, by directly accessing the reservoirs through a wellbore. It involves drilling vertically into the ground, penetrating rock formations to reach the desired resource.
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Sentences with «conventional drilling»
- Conventional drilling generally sees temperatures of less than 320 degrees F (160 degrees C). (sciencedaily.com)
- Using conventional drilling methods, it will take three summer seasons in the remote reaches of Antarctica to get to the million - year - old ice that the teams hope lies 3000 metres down. (newscientist.com)
- And I'm not sure it reduces the higher emissions of natural gas obtained via fracking versus natural gas obtained from more conventional drilling methods. (treehugger.com)
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