dry hole

collocation in English

meaningsofdryandhole

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dry
adjective
uk
/draɪ/us
/draɪ/
used to describe something that has no water or other liquid in, on, or ...
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hole
noun[C]
uk
/həʊl/us
/hoʊl/
an empty space in an object, usually with an opening to the object's surface, or an opening that goes completely through ...
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(Definition ofdryandholefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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He hoped rather tentatively that it would not be adryhole.
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In the oil industry, eachdryhole, each well which does not discover oil, tells other people who come later where oil may be.
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Adryholecosts just as much to drill as one that works, and the approximate figure for that is £1½ million.
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Site restoration is something of which the oil industry is only to well aware in the event of adryhole.
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I hope this will not turn out to be what we would have called a "dryhole".
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It costs up to £2 million to drill adryhole.
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Unfortunately, it was adryholeexcept for a very small quantity of gas and oil.
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The company drilled fifty-two producing wells before it struck the firstdryhole.
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Trebol drilled fifty-two consecutive producing wells before it struck adryhole.
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The well was declared adryhole.
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There have been a lot of dry holes and there has been immense expenditure, which has never been isolated for the benefit of the public.
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Of those 195, 166 dry holes have been drilled.
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It is an absolute certainty that as work progresses from now on there will be more dry holes, and therefore higher costs.
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I am sad to say that the wells concerned resulted in dry holes and there has been no further development to please the locals.
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A monolith surmounts one of the dry holes and is theorized to have been used in drawing water from the well.
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Dry holes in this same area contain no typically sand-gravel layers within the first 22 feet.
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Of these, 107 produced oil, 12 found only gas and 11 were dry holes.
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Production began to decline sharply in 1915, and more dry holes were reported.
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Seismic maps on both horizons and subsurface information showed the reservoir structure and helped limit drilling in dry holes.
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All the wells drilled in state waters were dry holes.
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