House hearing on BP's role in Gulf oil-well disaster. From Wordnik.com. [FedEx Flights to Measure Trade Pulse] Reference
Halliburton was a Dallas-based oil-well supply company. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Houston, We Have a Problem] Reference
'He looked like one of those Chickasaws with an oil-well.'. From Wordnik.com. [Science Fiction Hall of Fame]
Her father was an oil-well driller in the San Joaquin Valley. From Wordnik.com. [The Reluctant Poet Laureate] Reference
(NYSE), a provider of oil-well services fell 39 cents, or 4.3%, to 8.63. From Wordnik.com. [Fannie, Freddie Tumble; Sonic Slips] Reference
Halliburton founded the company as an oil-well cementing service in 1919. From Wordnik.com. [Halliburton Emerges From Gulf Disaster Unscathed] Reference
"Is that the man who cheated you on the oil-well deal?" asked the young inventor. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Undersea Search, or, the Treasure on the Floor of the Atlantic] Reference
I asked for my share of the oil-well stock, and was told I was not entitled to any. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Undersea Search, or, the Treasure on the Floor of the Atlantic] Reference
I want to show you some new video of an oil-well explosion and fire in East Tennessee. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 6, 2007] Reference
Complex things like financial markets and oil-well engineering don't make for easy answers. From Wordnik.com. [Overheard: Flash Answer] Reference
When MMS inspectors visit rigs, Mr. Hunt said, they give "oral examinations" to workers on oil-well control. From Wordnik.com. [Oil Regulator Ceded Oversight to Drillers] Reference
CEO de Margerie predicts new safety regulations, higher costs as governments respond to BP oil-well disaster. From Wordnik.com. [Total Chief: Don't Bar Deep Water Oil] Reference
"We were fighting an oil-well fire - three of them, as a matter of fact, all set off by one freak arc of lightning.". From Wordnik.com. [From This Beloved Hour]
Half a mile further east on FR 1728, Quintana entered the Schroder ranch through a gate made from two oil-well pumps. From Wordnik.com. [Clean Kill]
The technology for stashing carbon beneath the earth already exists, and is routinely exploited by oil-well drillers. From Wordnik.com. [Re-Engineering the Earth] Reference
Faced with the same problem the oil-well industry has pioneered the use of big-degradable material in mud formulation. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 17] Reference
This frequently causes explosions, tearing out the side of the well or blowing out the casing, and making the oil-well useless. From Wordnik.com. [Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation] Reference
After many hardships in life, which Mr. Keith related in some detail to Tom, the oil-well prospector at last fell in with Dixwell Hardley. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Undersea Search, or, the Treasure on the Floor of the Atlantic] Reference
Compared with the oil-well fires which raged in Iraq during its turbulent recent history, the quantities involved at Buncefield are small. From Wordnik.com. [BBC says: "No story to see here"] Reference
(In 1989 Jaffe came under scrutiny from House investigators for inviting Speaker Wright into an extremely profitable oil-well venture at little risk.). From Wordnik.com. [An Affair To Forget] Reference
Cobble, 80, oil-well supply store area manager, died Monday. From Wordnik.com. Reference
She forgot that, before breakfast, Milt had filled the oil-well for her. From Wordnik.com. [Free Air] Reference
There is a great dash of the gambling element in the oil-well business at Baku. From Wordnik.com. [Persia Revisited] Reference
It was only a matter of time, he declared, before the oil-well would yield rich profit. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Opp] Reference
I told you, quite truthfully, that I had put part of your money into options in an oil-well. From Wordnik.com. [Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels] Reference
The latest - an oil-well drill so big it takes 40 trucks to carry it - began arriving Friday. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference
They returned to the oil-well the same day, while we continued with the multitudinous duties of camp life. From Wordnik.com. [The Land That Time Forgot] Reference
And workers are busy prepping the so-called Plan C - an oil-well drill so big it took 40 trucks to transport. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Science Monitor | All Stories] Reference
The U-33 merely landed those of us that were to return to the fort and then retraced its course toward the oil-well. From Wordnik.com. [The Land That Time Forgot] Reference
Hayward has been criticized for his mishandling of the company's response to the oil-well leak in the Gulf of Mexico. From Wordnik.com. [Durangoherald.com] Reference
The metronomic rhythm of oil-well pumps was a further reminder that this is a nature preserve for animals, not people. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
We first meet him at the scene of an oil-well fire, where he arrives via helicopter to the great relief of everyone present. From Wordnik.com. [Film.com Movie Blog] Reference
The movie makes no attempt to explain this, so I'll assume everyone except me already knew the ins and outs of oil-well firefighting. From Wordnik.com. [Film.com Movie Blog] Reference
The commission and its 21 staff members usually labor in obscurity unless they are responding to a serious oil-well accident or violation. From Wordnik.com. [Baseball Crank] Reference
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