Real estate is a bit like the oil drilling business.

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If they do strike oil, however, they might invest a bit more and put the drilling gear in place.

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The tough bit is getting the requisite amount of drilling mud far enough down the well.

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Drilling into the daily chart, the waters become a bit more muddied.

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Having worked in the offshore drilling industry for six years, this read was a bit of a struggle for me and could be seen as misleading to your readers.

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Inside the riser pipe is a space about half a meter in diameter, large enough to hold the spinning drill pipe and bit and to allow the return flow of drilling fluid.

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Drilling under Plan A will stop this weekend once the drill bit reaches 1, 247 feet (380 meters), then the drill will receive scheduled maintenance before resuming early next week, engineer Rene Aguilar said.

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Offshore drilling contractors, like Houston-based Global Marine, will have to wait a bit longer for the dollars to get to them.

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Yet a survey of both the drill-bit manufacturers, which were Synthetic's immediate customers, and the drilling companies hinted that those projections were light.

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It now appears that as they redrill to get the drilling muds moving again and so forth, they may be pushing the fish down the hole in front of the bit.

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