When it is, he retires as you would from an exploding oil-well.

You never know when I could scrape together enough to make the drillers put a oil-well there.

They returned to the oil-well the same day, while we continued with the multitudinous duties of camp life.

The U-33 merely landed those of us that were to return to the fort and then retraced its course toward the oil-well.

These lessons provide informative material on the operations performed on a producing oil-well.

Been a promoter in his time - traveled a lot - connected with oil-well deals down in Texas.

The same year, CP began manufacturing rotary oil-well drilling equipment.

Not another oil-well!

Nabors Industries is the nation's largest operator of oil-well drilling rigs and has its working headquarters in Houston.

It gushes forth like an oil-well, and the sympathetic pour out their sympathy with an abandon that is sometimes embarrassing to their victims.

Permits for Commercial Vehicles Other than Oil-Well Service Vehicles 62.

Western governments should be asked why they do not demand that the oil-well be used to transform the lives of the people, instead of propping up this regime.

These are the missing papers in the oil-well deal--the papers that prove Barton Keith has a half share in property worth many millions of dollars.

It was born of an oil-well in Texas, seasoned with wine dregs, coloured with raspberry syrup or beetroot juice, and even, occasionally, pepped up with tan boot polish.

American examples of this type of witticism include, from George Jean Nathan's Monks Are Monks (1929), as bored as an oil-well and as swell as the mumps .

A big oil-well drilling company that has used one law to escape American taxes by taking addresses in Bermuda and Barbados is now trying to use another law to qualify for business open only to American companies.

The first oil-well drilled in the sea off the Falkland Islands for more than a decade appears not to have found commercial quantities of oil, according to Desire Petroleum, a British company that last month brought a drilling rig to the islands.

Lord Northcliffe, whose Evening News was the capital's bestseller in the early 1920s, described the new Westminster as "about as good as my first oil-well and pipeline establishment would be", and condemning it for "ignorance, provincialism, extravagance, mismanagement and muddle".

One theory comes from Charles A. Whiteshot in "The Oil-Well Driller," who cites producers agreeing in 1866 that "An allowance of two gallons will be made on the gauge of each and every 40 gallons in favor of the buyer."

To drill an oil-well maybe two and a half miles deep they'd have needed at least six thousand bags of cement and the two bucketsful of that needed to ensure that Bryson would remain at the bottom of the ocean until long after he was an unidentifiable skeleton wouldn't even have been missed.

There was even an oil well in the city park.

The park is also the site of the first oil well in Florida.

"It seems like everyone wants to own an oil well now."

Anyone could sell an oil well to a gas company, he said.

I thought you'd have been buying an oil well or something like that.

Fortunately, another oil well was found just west of the town.

No doubt he would ask for an oil well and an island or two.

There is not an oil well anywhere in this state.

At the end of 1952 there were 180 oil wells.

The question of what constituted the first commercial oil well is a difficult one to answer.

The program has been shut down like a dry Texas oil well since then.

It is believed to be the only such oil well anywhere in the world.

From 1914 to 1939, the total number of oil wells was increased to 35.

Seven oil wells in a field of 400 remained on fire today.

American intelligence reported a total of 500 oil wells on fire.

It was the site of the first oil well drilled in California.

And that's how we came to own an oil well."

He could claim his half of the oil well then."

It is an important part of the oil well drilling equipment.

The first successful oil well in the area was not drilled until 1961.

Offered me an oil well to sign with the Royals.

And in 1907 they hit their first oil well.

Two abandoned oil wells can be found on the island.

It will not be to see an oil well.

A schoolteacher took a job as guard for an oil well.