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PRONUNCIATION OF DRY HOLE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DRY HOLE

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conjunction
determiner
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Dry hole is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DRY HOLE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of dry hole in the English dictionary

The definition of dry hole in the dictionary is a well that is drilled but does not produce oil or gas in commercially worthwhile amounts.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DRY HOLE

dry cell
dry distillation
dry dock
dry drunk
dry farmer
dry farming
dry fly
dry ginger
dry goods
dry goods store
dry ice
dry kiln
dry land
dry law
dry lightning
dry martini
dry measure
dry nurse
dry out
dry point

WORDS THAT END LIKE DRY HOLE

air hole
black hole
bolt hole
bullet hole
cat hole
coal hole
doughnut hole
funk hole
glory hole
in the hole
kettle hole
nineteenth hole
on the whole
ozone hole
rabbit hole
shot hole
snow hole
sound hole
spider hole
water hole
watering hole

Synonyms and antonyms of dry hole in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «dry hole» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DRY HOLE

Find out the translation of dry hole to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of dry hole from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «dry hole» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

旱洞
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

pozo seco
570 millions of speakers

English

dry hole
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सूखी छेद
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

حفرة جافة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

сухой отверстие
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

poço seco
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

শুষ্ক গর্ত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

trou sec
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Lubang kering
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Trockenbohrung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

空井戸
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

건조 구멍
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Bolongan garing
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

lỗ khô
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உலர் துளை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कोरड्या छिद्र
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kuru delik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

foro secco
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

otwór na sucho
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

сухий отвір
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

gaură uscat
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ξηρά τρύπα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

droë gat
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

torrt hål
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tørt hull
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of dry hole

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DRY HOLE»

The term «dry hole» is regularly used and occupies the 94.219 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DRY HOLE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about dry hole

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DRY HOLE»

Discover the use of dry hole in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to dry hole and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Fundamentals of Oil & Gas Accounting
A company with a large exploratory drilling program and a normal unsuccessful drilling rate would, under successful efforts, have a significant amount of dry- hole expense. Those dry-hole costs would adversely affect the net income of a ...
Charlotte J. Wright, Rebecca A. Gallun, 2008
2
Dictionary of Petroleum Exploration, Drilling & Production, ...
[Cf. bottomhole agreement] dry hole budget future monies that will be spent drilling dry holes based on exploration success statistics dry hole capacity see allowable dry holes dry hole clause an oil and gas lease provision that defines what a ...
Norman Hyne Ph.D., 2014
3
U.S. Master Tax Guide
59(e)(1), (6)).262 If the operator has elected to capitalize intangible drilling and development costs, and the well later proves to be nonproductive (a dry hole), the operator may elect to deduct those costs as an ordinary loss. The election, once ...
CCH Incorporated, 2007
4
Handbook of Oil Industry Terms and Phrases
DRY HOLE An unsuccessful well; a well drilled to a certain depth without finding oil; a duster. DRY-HOLE LETTER A document similar to a bottom-hole letter except that a dry-hole letter creates an obligation to pay the operator a specified ...
R. D. Langenkamp, 1994
5
Project Economics and Decision Analysis: Probabilistic Models
This is a simple case of two acts (drill or farmout) and two events (dry hole or producer). The objective is to determine the dry hole probability when the decision maker will be indifferent to the alternatives. If p is the probability of dry hole and (1 ...
M. A. Mian, 2011
6
The Greatest Gamblers: The Epic of American Oil Exploration
experienced driller who had earned the unlucky nickname of Dry Hole Charlie by never bringing in a producer. Drilling was continued on and off down to 2,200 feet, at which point work was stopped, awaiting the services of the next spare crew ...
Ruth Sheldon Knowles, 1980
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Computing Risk for Oil Prospects: Principles and Programs: ...
(k) Incorporate dry hole probability and rescale probabilities for field size classes by adding the dry hole probability to other probabilities in (a) and dividing by the total so that the rescaled probabilities sum to 1.0. The set of probabilities is now ...
J.W. Harbaugh, J.C. Davis, J. Wendebourg, 1995
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Handbook of Oil Industry Terms & Phrases, 6th Edition:
DRY HOLE An unsuccessful well; a well drilled to a certain depth without finding oil; a duster. DRY-HOLE LETTER A document similar to a bottom-hole letter, except that a dry-hole letter creates an obligation to pay the operator a specified ...
R. D. Langenkamp, 2014
9
Drilling: The Manual of Methods, Applications, and Management
Procedures for cementing plastic casing Dry hole method In the dry hole method, the casing cannot collapse, as it forms a sealed cylinder full of incompressible liquid. Assume hole is 50 m ( 1 60 ft) deep. S.G. of cement = 1.7 S.G. of water = 1.0 ...
The Australian Drilling, 1997
10
Project Economics and Decision Analysis: Probabilistic models
Volume II: Probabilistic Models The decision maker would be indifferent between the two alternatives if the two expected values are equal. The question is, at what dry hole probability the expected value of the two alternatives will be equal.
M. A. Mian, Mohammed A. Mian, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DRY HOLE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term dry hole is used in the context of the following news items.
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Fastnet Oil & Gas conserves its cash and cuts costs as it looks for …
There is no point in denying that the dry hole that AIM-listed Fastnet Oil & Gas (LON:FAST) experienced over year ago now, offshore Morocco, ... «Proactive Investors UK, Jul 15»
2
The Lowdown on Fracking
If you missed, you made a dry hole. Conversely, if a shale region is found to be abundant with gas, you could drill anywhere the rock formation ... «Laboratory Equipment, Jul 15»
3
Citation Resources drill program on track at North Chapman Ranch
Citation has already pre-paid in full its share of the dry hole AFE costs (US$613,000) to the Operator for the Russel Bevly #2 appraisal well on ... «OilVoice, Jul 15»
4
Water Returns To Palmer Lake
"We were out here four months ago, looking at a dry hole; now there's water in the lake," Hulsmann said. The victory changed the water rights ... «KKTV 11 News, Jul 15»
5
Galilee Energy progresses testing at Hoffer B1 well, Texas
... Midcox unit are able to be carried out under turnkey contracts and are expected to cost less than US$2.0M ($640k GLL share) dry hole cost. «OilVoice, Jul 15»
6
All hail to Haley, Republicans say with great relief
They've been leading their GOP herd into one dry hole after another – dry holes of unadapting social agendas and unimaginative (see also: ... «SaukValley.com, Jul 15»
7
GOP may have just been rescued by an unlikely hero
They've been leading their GOP herd into one dry hole after another – dry holes of unadapting social agendas and unimaginative (see also: ... «The Herald, Jul 15»
8
Concerned Shareholder of Terra Nova Energy Ltd. Urges …
Terra Nova would be in a good position to raise the necessary capital to drill at least 5 wells, which would reduce the risk of a dry hole. If Terra ... «Stockhouse, Jul 15»
9
Martin Schram: GOP may have just been rescued by an unlikely hero
They've been leading their GOP herd into one dry hole after another - dry holes of unadapting social agendas and unimaginative (see also: ... «Hilton Head Island Packet, Jul 15»
10
Tullow Oil plc: Trading statement and operational update
... well and moved to the Tullow operated Zumba prospect which completed drilling in June and was plugged and abandoned as a dry hole. «Your Oil and Gas News, Jul 15»

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