directional drilling

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noun

a method of drilling for oil in which the well is not drilled vertically, as when a number of wells are to be drilled from a single platform to reach different areas of an oil fieldAlso called: deviated drilling

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Words nearby directional drilling

direct injection, direct input, direction, directional, directional derivative, directional drilling, directional microphone, direction angle, direction cosine, direction finder, direction number

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How to use directional drilling in a sentence

Kocurek now works 12-hour shifts as a night watchman guarding the entrance to a drilling patch.
Two Texas Regulators Tried to Enforce the Rules. They Were Fired.|David Hasemyer, InsideClimate News|December 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Shoddy well construction is considered a primary cause of groundwater contamination at drilling sites.
Two Texas Regulators Tried to Enforce the Rules. They Were Fired.|David Hasemyer, InsideClimate News|December 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
She skewers the Nature Conservancy for sponsoring oil drilling on their property for profit.
Naomi Klein’s ‘This Changes Everything’ Will Change Nothing|Michael Signer|November 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Proceeds from its North Sea drilling rigs will insure corruption and kleptocracy on a Nigerian scale.
Up to a Point: A Free Scotland Would Be a Hilarious Disaster|P. J. O’Rourke|September 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Makovich himself is a keen ecologist—and other members like him are opposed to shale gas drilling.
Inside East Ukraine’s Make-Believe Republics|Jamie Dettmer|May 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The machines for drilling and boring are the best that money can buy, and the operatives the most skilful to be found anywhere.
The Wonder Book of Knowledge|Various
The beach and the sand dunes round La Panne were filled with drilling men, Belgium's new army.
The Amazing Interlude|Mary Roberts Rinehart
"I have some great news," he presently said, in the full masculine tone of one who has done much drilling.
Overland|John William De Forest
The sun is finally dispersing the fog, so we shall get an opportunity of drilling together.
Letters of Lt.-Col. George Brenton Laurie|George Brenton Laurie
Washington, as we have seen, was seemingly idle, only because his troops needed drilling and he had no powder.
The Story of the Thirteen Colonies|H. A. (Hlne Adeline) Guerber