drilling operations
Making deep holes
Drilling operations are the activities involved in boring holes into the earth, typically to extract oil, gas, water, or minerals.
The term encompasses everything from site preparation to the actual drilling process and ongoing maintenance.
In the petroleum industry, drilling operations include exploratory wells to locate reserves and production wells to extract them: The company suspended drilling operations after the spill.
The phrase also applies to mining, construction, and geothermal energy extraction.
- oil explorationHunting for petroleum deposits
- derrickMovable boom apparatus
- safety meetingDiscussion of hazard prevention
- casingEnclosing cover or frame
- tunnel boringDigging horizontal underground passages
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- mininggold, mines, gold mines, mine, coal
- polar researchSouth Pole, North Pole, ice cores, glaciology, climate data
- geothermal energygeothermal heat, fumaroles, geothermal plants, geothermal fields, geothermal field
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Extracting minerals from earth
underground mining · strip mining · surface mining · open-pit mining · quarrying
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Filling or blocking
backfilling · grouting · construction · building up · sealing
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