In other parts of the Arctic, though, exploratory drilling has continued.

Drilling fluid, a.k.a.

Deep borehole drilling

Equipment for such a method is also lightweight when drilling deep holes, compared to traditional drilling equipment.

And this openness is the beginning of exploratory play.

That's the beginning of desire, that exploratory needs curiosity, discovery.

Exploratory research is used when problems are in a preliminary stage.

Drilling of Tamar 1 began in November 2008.

A successful initiative will require exploratory talks and an evolving road map.

They search out holes and make some exploratory bites looking for larvae.

The Government of the Netherlands has provided funding support for exploratory work.

Cairn Energy is drilling south and west of Greenland.

Norway Intervention in merger between American drilling equipment companies

The UN s latest initiative to get low key, exploratory talks moving is going nowhere.

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Exploratory research helps determine the best research design, data collection method and selection of subjects.

Exploratory research is flexible and can address research questions of all types (what, why, how).

Obviously, this would cause the cost of drilling to increase significantly.

I ll start drilling a hole in my bed sheets right away.

Qualitative research methods such as case study or field research are often used in exploratory research.

Financial liberalization is not about foreign firms drilling holes in China s economy.

Last month, after nearly two years of exploratory conversations, formal peace talks were initiated in Oslo, Norway.

No one is forcing us to sign the mining and drilling deals today.

They have completed drilling 4.5 m depth hole into Gurumbi for this blast.

In the wake of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 and the subsequent US drilling embargo, the approval of Shell s drilling operations off the Alaskan coast received considerable media attention.

But there now will be greater concerns about deep drilling in any sensitive environment.

The merged company would have had a very strong position in the drilling equipment market.

Likewise, the Russians have just erased much of Iraq s debt and agreed lucrative oil drilling deals.

They were the leading companies globally in providing systems and equipment for oil and gas drilling.

This is surely one of the biggest reasons for the lax regulation of deep sea oil drilling.

It is also suspected of drilling horizontally into the South s oil fields, in defiance of the CPA.

During the Antonine and Severan periods, ornate hair and bearding, with deep cutting and drilling, became popular.

The ice drilling project on the north eastern corner of the Amery ice shelf near Davis Station continued.

No coring of the lake has yet taken place, with drilling stopping approximately 100 metres above the lake.

An exploratory mission is scheduled to be dispatched in June to assess the feasibility of a European Union election observation mission to Haiti.

The Authority warned that the merger would restrict competition in the markets for equipment and components used in oil and gas drilling and production, and thus the merged company has to divest itself of National Oilwell's Norwegian subsidiaries active in drilling equipment sales and service.

Today s Russia is a gigantic reservoir of raw materials, and its economy relies heavily on commodities mining and drilling.

Saudi Arabia s national oil company has achieved homegrown expertise in oil drilling that is widely admired in the West.

The Company's diversified capabilities included the construction of roads and bridges, the drilling of wells and other engineering tasks.

However, since the referral, I have two exploratory meetings in April and May in the Netherlands with officials of the Government of the Sudan.

And here, scientists are drilling into the past of our planet to find clues to the future of climate change.

However, the Panel continues to believe that activity on this scale, and with the necessary investment, goes far beyond the realm of straightforward exploratory sampling.

Rats in this exploratory group learned to go down the rewarded arm much faster than another group of rats that had not previously explored the maze.

Oil experts argue that offshore drilling never had the potential to amount to more than a small share of global supply.

The European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA) is a multinational European project for deep ice core drilling in Antarctica.