On Monday, oil-drilling companies and banks went down together.    From Wordnik.com.  [AIG Tumbles 5.5%,] Reference

There will be four oil-drilling platforms after the causeways are built.    From Wordnik.com.  [CASTRO ASSESSES TOUR] Reference

In Mobile, this picture, a bridge that got hit by an oil-drilling platform.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 30, 2005] Reference

Reuters An oil-drilling platform at Kashagan oil field in western Kazakhstan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Western Oil Companies Resolve Kazakh Dispute] Reference

He says nothing of the many more jobs lost by Obama's oil-drilling moratorium.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charlie Crist Moving Left: Independent Thanks God For Leaving GOP, Gets Interview With 'Bill Press Show'] Reference

It destroyed seven Gulf platforms, oil-drilling platforms in the Gulf of Mexico.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 23, 2004] Reference

The Japanese trading house has a 10% stake in the troubled oil-drilling operations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asia Markets Mixed; Tokyo Slips Into Red] Reference

Obama has now suspended his oil-drilling plan amid a widespread loss of political support.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Real Cause Of BP's Oil Spill] Reference

You mentioned that oil-drilling platform here in Mobile, which came loose out of its moorings.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 30, 2005] Reference

Corrections (in red) to an oil-drilling graphic published in June 2008 by McClatchy Newspapers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill Chameides: Understanding Oil] Reference

OK -- the oil-drilling group has been one of the top 10 performers over the past three months.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oil Prices: A War Casualty?] Reference

Associated Press An offshore oil-drilling platform off the coast of California, near Santa Barbara.    From Wordnik.com.  [States Consider Gas and Oil Levies] Reference

There is an oil-drilling platform that came loose and bashed into the Cochran Bridge here in Mobile.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 30, 2005] Reference

Norway is about to launch an oil-drilling ship it has developed that can withstand the movement of the ice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Arctic Oil Rush] Reference

The Houston oil-drilling concern also said it eliminated tax reimbursements, or "gross-ups," for executives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nabors Cuts CEO's Death Benefit] Reference

He was being buttonholed by Dean Montross, one of the men who was involved in an oil-drilling venture with him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legend of the Slain Soldiers]

Bush's Oil-Drilling Moves This is not your father's oil-drilling policy, or at least not President Bush's father's.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Multifront War] Reference

They took it over and doubled production by applying an oil-drilling technique that had never been used for potash.    From Wordnik.com.  [Potash Bears Fruit for the Intrepid Investor] Reference

The coming weeks could bring a flurry of activity on energy and oil-drilling issues that respond to the Gulf spill.    From Wordnik.com.  [Democrats Step Back on Carbon Cap] Reference

There was an oil-drilling platform here in Mobile that broke loose of its moorings and went into the Cochran Bridge.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 30, 2005] Reference

The latest oil-drilling rigs are able to withstand storms and other threats, so they can be placed farther offshore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Billionaire Cashes In] Reference

Well here's another outlandish oil-drilling line: If not for the Dems in Congress, gas would cost two bucks a gallon!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another GOP Oil-Drilling Myth Is Born!] Reference

The Coast Guard says Katrina set adrift one, possibly two, unmanned offshore oil-drilling units in the Gulf of Mexico.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 30, 2005] Reference

"He knows exactly what he wants," said the VW video, implying a Passat CC would be just the thing for oil-drilling Jeff.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marketing to the Weak: Me] Reference

Robert Flaherty that depicted a boy's idyllic life in oil-drilling country and is considered sympathetic to the oil industry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Goldman, the Movie.] Reference

Japanese commodities shares got a boost following better-than-expected overnight earnings from oil-drilling equipment maker Halliburton.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nikkei Tracks Wall Street Rally;] Reference

On The Daily Show more recently, Jon Stewart said words to this effect, another paraphrase: Some people are opposed to offshore oil-drilling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eric Burns: Sorry, Jon, You Are A News Show] Reference

As water tables fall, well drillers are using modified oil-drilling technology to reach water, going as deep as 1,000 meters in some locations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aquifer depletion] Reference

The site having been selected, the ordinary oil-drilling outfit is employed to sink a hole of about six inches in diameter until the gas is reached.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889] Reference

The federal judge who struck down the Obama administration's initial six-month moratorium on deepwater oil-drilling dealt the government another blow on Wednesday.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judge Deals New Blow to Drilling Moratorium] Reference

Modern man's first contact with this substance was as a waxy effluvia that rose up from oil-drilling rigs, clogging equipment and causing all kinds of other problems.    From Wordnik.com.  [What's Inside: Antifungal Agent Lotrimin Ultra] Reference

The company also made 25 recommendations that it says will strengthen processes and procedures and technical know-how to prevent another oil-drilling accident from happening.    From Wordnik.com.  [BP: No Single Factor Caused Gulf Spill] Reference