Word: auger
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...general manager for production engineering. "The big easies have all been found." Shell is investing $1.3 billion to build and install a tension-leg platform some 411 km (255 miles) southeast of Houston that will retrieve oil from a world-record depth of 872 m (2,860 ft.). Called Auger, the giant is scheduled to begin producing from 32 wells in 1993. Shell has also drilled an exploratory well at a 2,300-m (7,500-ft.) depth, and Mobil and Chevron hold leases to search in 3,000 m (10,000 ft.) of water. As long as oil prices...
...dozens of biologists, geologists and other scientists. His most harrowing trip was a helicopter ride to the edge of an ice sheet 25 miles out in Ross Sound for a close look at the emperor penguins that nest there. "Before we landed, a crewman jumped out with a giant auger and drilled several feet to see if the sheet was thick enough to hold our weight," says Lemonick. "Even then, we had to walk very carefully, single file, watching for cracks...