exploratory borehole

A series of exploratory boreholes will be sunk, with associated trenches.

The first exploratory boreholes move off-target, but a later one reaches the required destination.

A 19-year-old woman and a man were arrested on suspicion of assaulting police as the energy company Cuadrilla started an exploratory borehole at the site.

Exploratory boreholes were used to locate the trapped miners, with several of these subsequently used to supply the men.

During the late evening of 17 July 1998 a start was made on drilling an exploratory borehole to the snap room where the man was trapped.

Exploratory boreholes sunk in the 1950s established that there were up to seven workable seams of coal at Kellingley.

How the Environment Agency is involved in the exploratory borehole in Balcombe.

In 2006 and 2007, Western Uranium Corporation drilled exploratory boreholes in the area.

With the significant resources that the state-owned mining company, Codelco, was able to marshal, eight exploratory boreholes were hastily drilled.

Since Friday, it has been drilling a six-inch exploratory borehole 3,000ft into the Sussex shale and limestone in search of oil and gas.

In the 1950s the National Coal Board sank a large number of deep exploratory boreholes and Survey staff examined most of the cores obtained.

Deep geologic disposal has been studied for several decades, including laboratory tests, exploratory boreholes, and the construction and operation of underground research laboratories where large-scale in-situ tests are being conducted.

In April the company made exploratory boreholes and other tests to help it to evaluate the site, and in October 2014 it submitted bridge designs to West Berkshire Council.

Data recovered from oil and water exploratory boreholes has produced an in depth knowledge of the subsurface and a new understanding of the tectonics, resulting in the discovery of previously unknown faults.

The company has applied to the Environment Agency for a mining waste permit to manage wastes arising from drilling an exploratory borehole at their Ellesmere Port site on Merseyton Road.

Investigations for an alternative ground water source have been on going for the past two years and it is hoped that exploratory boreholes in the Lower Upham and Newtown areas will provide suitable alternative supplies.

These will not be given a Drilling Sequence Number but will be identified with the mnemonic EB (Exploratory Borehole) following the relevant quad and block number, to avoid confusion with other wells.

Thus far, the campaign to prevent this highly controversial method of extracting gas and oil from beneath the scenic chalk hills of the High Weald had been a local affair, conducted in genteel fashion by concerned residents of Balcombe, where an exploratory borehole is to be sunk.