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- verb Present participle of
redrill .
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Examples
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With $500 million in freshly raised cash, he makes no secret of his plans to buy at least one shallow operator by the end of 2010 and continue his initial strategy of redrilling big old fields and milking their cash.
XXI Energy Goes Deep Into the Gulf Christopher Helman 2010
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With $500 million in freshly raised cash, he makes no secret of his plans to buy at least one shallow operator by the end of 2010 and continue his initial strategy of redrilling big old fields and milking their cash.
XXI Energy Goes Deep Into the Gulf Christopher Helman 2010
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The Web site's assessment so far is that Aramco is engaged in a massive redrilling of Ghawaras part of a "constant struggle to maintain the field's current production level."
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Temsah's gas reserves are estimated at 4.3 Tcf, and the field is expected to reach production of 550 Mmcf/d in 2006 after a 2004 blow-out cut production and forced redrilling.
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Last week a friend recounted the latest sins of a large US construction company who in the process of building a large commercial structure he's overseeing, most recently screwed up by mispositioning the bolts embedded into the foundations, requiring that the structural steel be sent back to the factory for redrilling of the base plates (after engineering analysis to verify that this wouldn't substantially weaken the plates).
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They may simply be redrilling already-broken soil because it is easiest to work.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989
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They may simply be redrilling already-broken soil because it is easiest to work.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989
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They may simply be redrilling already-broken soil because it is easiest to work.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989
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Within a year-that is, six months after we commence the redrilling-we will begin to bring the production wells back on stream, and full restoration of the wells will be achieved within two more years.
Red Storm Rising Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1986
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If they lose this shaft entirely, rather than redrilling it later, tough titties.
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