The following were created: better tooth and ball bearing designs of rock bits, roller bearing enclosed engines, automatic controls for steam generating plants, and gas engine electric generator sets with motors.
The oil and gas field machinery industry includes field tools, oil derricks, drilling rigs and tools, well logging and surveying equipment, and general gas well and oil field machinery and equipment.
Deborah Cranswick has written: 'Deepwater in the Gulf of Mexico' -- subject(s): Offshore gas industry, Offshore oil industry, Offshore oil well drilling, Oil well drilling, Submarine, Petroleum in submerged lands, Submarine Oil well drilling
John E. Hodges has written: 'The oil well drilling contractor industry' -- subject(s): Oil well drilling, Petroleum industry and trade
In the field of oil/gas drilling, it refers to hydraulic horsepower per square inch.
The taking of resources, e.g. drilling for oil, mining, forestry, etc.
a manufacturer of products used in the oil and gas well drilling industry worldwide
It generally depends on the price of oil and natural gas. When the price of oil/gas gets high, drilling for oil/gas generally increases thereafter. Oil and gas drilling has been growing in areas such as the northeast United States because of new discoveries and technology regarding shale gas.
John Orban has written: 'Let's talk an oil deal' -- subject(s): Dictionaries, Petroleum industry and trade, Petroleum engineering 'Money in the ground' -- subject(s): Finance, Oil well drilling, Gas industry, Petroleum industry and trade, Investments, Gas well drilling
includes establishments primarily engaged in drilling wells for oil and gas field operations for others on a contract or fee basis. This industry includes contractors that specialize in spudding in, drilling in, redrilling, and directional drilling.
Committee for Oil Industry Workers' Rights was created in 1996.
Early drilling methods relied on the cable-tool method, which was a rope or chain that suspended drilling tools into the well bore. Various methods were used to actually pound the drill bit into the ground.
William J. Renfro has written: 'The mobile offshore drilling industry in the Southwest and the financing of mobile offshore drilling units' -- subject(s): Offshore oil well drilling, Finance