Oil was discovered in Chad s southern Doba region in 1975, with 300 wells drilled so far.

In the late 1970s, wells were drilled at Kufra and at Sabha as part of a major agricultural development effort.

Large oil reserves were first identified in the Dhahran area in 1931, and in 1935, Standard Oil drilled the first commercially viable oil well.

The deepest hole ever drilled failed not because of lack of money or time, but because of the physics of rocks within the crust.

Around 1896, the first submerged oil wells in salt water were drilled in the portion of the Summerland field extending under the Santa Barbara Channel in California.

And it's a crime that our education system is so serious because education is serious that we're creating mindless, robotic workers to put bolts in pre drilled holes.

Air samples taken from inside an unopened sarcophagus through a drilled hole showed high levels of ammonia, formaldehyde and hydrogen sulfide these gases are all toxic, but are easily detected by their strong odours.

The single crystal nickel alloy turbine blades are also hollow, and air is pushed through laser drilled holes in them to cool them because the gas temperature is higher than the melting point of the blades.

Nobody knows how old the oldest living Coast Redwoods are because nobody has ever drilled into any of them to count their annual growth rings, and, in any case, the centers of the oldest individuals appear to be hollow.

After several phases and stages, the study process under way has, since 1996, focused on a basic alternative consisting of a tunnel structure drilled under the sill of the Strait, comprising two unidirectional railway galleries connected to a central service and safety gallery.

A child who doesn't know his or her colors or doesn't know how to tell time, doesn't know how to tie shoes, doesn't know how to do those things, and doesn't know how to do something that goes by a word that was drilled into me as a kid mind.

So I assume everybody knows that if you actually had a piece of amber and it had an insect in it, and you drilled into it, and you got something out of that insect, and you cloned it, and you did it over and over and over again, you'd have a room full of mosquitoes.