Drilling and blasting was successfully used to construct tunnels throughout the world, notably the Fréjus Rail Tunnel, the St. Gotthard Tunnel, the Simplon Tunnel, the Jungfraubahn and even the longest road tunnel in the world, Lærdalstunnelen, are constructed using this method.

Drilling through hardplate requires the use of special-purpose diamond or tungsten-carbide drill-bits.

A great part of the Baumholder Troop Drilling Ground abutting the town serves as a refuge for many plant and animal species that have become rare, for example the Common Kingfisher, the Lynx and the Badger, some of which are on the IUCN Red List.

Drilling began at one site in January 1908 and at another nearby in March.

The site is controlled by the State Scientific Enterprise on Superdeep Drilling and Complex Investigations in the Earth's Interior ( GNPP Nedra ) as the Deep Geolaboratory.

The North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling ( NEEM ) site is located at 77 ° 27 ’ N 51 ° 3. 6 ’ W, masl.

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide ( WAIS Divide ) Ice Core Drilling Project began drilling over the 2005 and 2006 seasons, drilling ice cores up to the depth of 300 m for the purposes of gas collection, other chemical applications, and to test the site for use with the Deep Ice Sheet Coring ( DISC ) Drill.

Drilling at the site in 2008 revealed rock features consistent with high-speed impacts such as those caused by meteorites.

Drilling was completed at this site in December 2004, reaching a drilling depth of 3270. 2 m, 5 m above bedrock.

Some major oil companies in Alice are Schlumberger, Halliburton, Baker Hughes, Inc., Weatherford International, and Alice serves as the headquarters for the Grey Wolf Drilling Company South Texas division

Drilling for oil has become a major issue.

Although there is a major difference between the two batches — the first 12 engines are type 1 ' F2 ' h2Gt-tank-engine for freight service, 2-cylinder system with simple steam expansion ( Zwilling ) with superheating, while the remaining 8 are 1 ' F2 ' h3Gt-3-cylinder ( Drilling ) — all were put into the same class 46 and numbered 46.

Drilling of holes at this small diameter presents greater problems since coolant fed drills cannot be used and high spindle speeds are required.

Hazard identification and risk assessment tools and techniques are described in the international standard ISO 17776: 2000, and organisations such as the IADC ( International Association of Drilling Contractors ) publish guidelines for HSE Case development which are based on the ISO standard.

* March – April – Drilling for Project Mohole is undertaken off the coast of Guadalupe Island, Mexico.

** Drilling for the new Montreal subway commences.

This information is used for Formation evaluation, Drilling Optimization, and Geosteering.

Drilling for the exploration of the nature of the material underground ( for instance in search of metallic ore ) is best described as borehole drilling, or ' drilling '.

Drilling and exploration for deep resources is very expensive.

Drilling for salt water, in 1859 Ross accidentally hit the first vein of oil in Indian Territory ( Oklahoma ).

Drilling rigs are either floating vessels for deeper water or jack-up designs which are a barge with liftable legs.

Investigations carried out by the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling found that Halliburton was jointly at fault along with BP and Transocean for the spill.

Teresa Drilling, one of the show's many animators, won an individual Emmy Award for " Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation ".

* Dan Sten Olsson, ( b. 1947 ), industry leader, CEO of Stena AB and chairman in Concordia Maritime AB, Stena Line Holding B. V., Stena Metall AB, Stena Bulk AB, Stena Sessan AB, Stena Drilling Ltd. Also member of international advisory board of Alliance for Global Sustainability and honorary doctorate at the University of Technology

The institution operates a fleet of four oceanographic research vessels and the research platform R / P FLIP ( Floating Instrument Platform ) for oceanographic research and has served as manager of the Deep Sea Drilling Program.

* Drilling and tapping centers, whose name sounds similar to that of tapping stations, are actually light-duty, affordable machining centers of 2, 2. 5, or 3 axes that are designed for a life of mainly drilling and tapping with limited milling use.

* WJLA-TV, Washington, DC for " Drilling for Dollars: Children's Dentistry Investigation "

and its staff have received several journalism awards, including the Gracie Award from American Women in Radio & Television ; the George Polk Award for its 1998 radio documentary Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria's Oil Dictatorship, on the Chevron Corporation and the deaths of two Nigerian villagers protesting an oil spill ; and Goodman with Allan Nairn won Robert F. Kennedy Memorial's First Prize in International Radio for their 1993 report, Massacre: The Story of East Timor which involved first-hand coverage of genocide during the Indonesian occupation of East Timor.

Several studies ( e. g., Amazon Shelf Study — AMASEDS, LEPLAC, REMAC, GLORIA, Ocean Drilling Program ) indicate that there is evidence for gas seepage on the slope off the Amazon fan based on the incidence of bottom-simulating reflections ( BSRs ), mud volcanoes, pock marks, gas in sediments, and deeper hydrocarbon occurrences.

The International Phase of Ocean Drilling ( IPOD ) began in 1975 with the Federal Republic of Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and France joining the United States in field work aboard the Glomar Challenger and in post-cruise scientific research.

ODP, which began in 1985, was the direct successor to the highly successful Deep Sea Drilling Project initiated in 1968 by the United States.

* Offshore Energy Center, sponsor of the Ocean Star Offshore Drilling Rig & Museum in Galveston, Texas, United States

* PKD, the stock symbol of Parker Drilling Company

Jack Drilling Company.

* Dual Drilling Company

Memo from FBI Special Agent Graham Kitchel in Texas, regarding call by " GHW Bush of Zapata Off-Shore Drilling Company " received 75 minutes after JFK's murder

It begins: " At 1: 45 pm Mr. GEORGE H. W. BUSH, President of the Zapata Off-Shore Drilling Company, Houston, Texas, residence 5525 Briar, Houston, telephonically furnished the following information to writer.

The rig, located approximately 320 km east from Dundee, Scotland, was owned by the Stavanger Drilling Company of Norway and was on hire to the U. S. company Phillips Petroleum at the time of the disaster.

To comply with federal antitrust regulations, Dresser sold off its interest in M-I Drilling Fluids Company and Western Atlas International.

Schlumberger purchased 50 % of Forex in 1964 and merged it with 50 % of Languedocienne to create the Neptune Drilling Company.

The remaining 50 % of Forex was acquired the following year ; Neptune was renamed Forex Neptune Drilling Company.

Forex Neptune was merged with SEDCO to create the Sedco Forex Drilling Company the following year, when Schlumberger purchased Merlin and 50 % of GECO.

Blue Water Drilling Company owned and operated the four column submersible drilling rig Blue Water Rig No. 1 in the Gulf of Mexico for Shell Oil Company.

Parker Drilling Company is the operator of the high rig.

The claim reverted to Crown land until the Longyear Drilling Company bought it in 1911.

He formed a number of companies to continue his uranium work, including the Utex Exploration Company, the Moab Drilling Company, the Mi Vida Company, Big Indian Mines, Inc., and later the Uranium Reduction Company.

Watson has served on the Boards of the Independent Petroleum Association of America ( IPAA ), Natural Gas Supply Association ( NGSA ), Interstate Natural Gas Association of America ( INGAA ), Edison Electric Institute ( EEI ), Natural Gas Council ( NGC ) and is currently on the Board of Baker Hughes, Baylor College of Medicine, Mainstream Renewable Power, Shona Energy Company, Patman Drilling Inc., Central Houston Inc., Angeleno Group and Mainstream Renewable Power.

In early 2010, BP subcontracted deals valued at around $ 500 million to Weatherford International, consortium of Schlumberger and Iraqi Drilling Co, and Daqing Oilfield Company Limited from China to drill 49 new wells at Rumaila.

) Sedco Forex had been formed from a merger of two drilling companies, the Southeast Drilling Company ( Sedco ), founded in 1947 by Bill Clements and acquired by Schlumberger in 1985 for $ 1 billion, and French drilling company Forages et Exploitations Pétrolières ( Forex ) founded in 1942 in German occupied France for drilling in North Africa.

Schlumberger first got a foothold in the company in 1959 and then assumed total control in 1964 and renamed it Forex Neptune Drilling Company.

The largest three companies for mud services are M-I SWACO ( A Schlumberger Company ), Baroid Drilling Fluids ( Halliburton Oilfield Services ), and Baker Hughes Drilling Fluids.