First, the black hole in drilling standards highlighted by my colleague Elliot Clark of Corporate Responsibility Magazine.
By reentering that hole and drilling down to 29, 000 feet, the partners found pay at depths that years ago nobody thought might contain oil or gas.
Davy Jones was so eager to cough up its bounty from a massive high-quality reservoir 200 feet thick that McMoran several months ago had to control the flow by filling the hole heavy drilling mud.
The Plan A drill -- a mining drill -- reached 148 meters (486 feet), but the hole it was drilling would still need to be widened to 70 centimeters (27.5 inches) to accommodate the rescue capsule.
The trick now is to machine the top of the pipe so that the remaining 1400 or so feet can be gripped or to use other tactics to grab hold of it and pull it up and out of the hole so that drilling can proceed.
Drilling a 2 or 3 foot hole can be done with normal equipment, while drilling a ten, fifty, or one hundred foot diameter vertical hole would require an entirely new invention.
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Then, after carefully drilling a hole into the crystals' walls and removing the few microlitres of fluid from each inclusion, the researchers began testing their samples for life.
People drilling the hole with a giant rig were just able to pull it out of the way and get to safety when the steam exploded and dug a crater that's more than 100 feet deep and about as wide.
The process involves drilling a bore hole and using explosives or water to force gas to the surface.
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Along with others, he began drilling a 2, 000 foot hole into the ground, working three or four days at a time with no sleep.
Along with others, he began drilling a 2, 000-foot hole into the ground, working three- or four-hour -- three or four days at a time without any sleep.
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Along with others, he began drilling a 2, 000-foot hole into the ground, working three or four hour -- three or four days at a time without any sleep.
It is currently drilling a 17.5-inch diameter hole -- smaller than the 28 inches required to rescue the miners -- in an effort to realign after veering off course over the weekend.
It required that as soon as Davy Jones was perforated and a flare came up the hole, the rig had to be backed away from the drilling platform.
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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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