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Tech/Engineering - Engineering (general) | | French term or phrase: ateliers de forage | | 2 of these were seized by the Sudanese government when they expelled an NGO from the country. (along with 4x4s, trucks, computers etc). They are used for drilling water boreholes but I'm not sure of the exact term in English. drilling platforms? Thanks in advance for your help. |
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| | drilling machines | Explanation:
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Drilling rigs, of course. My first thought was of the big ones, then I realized this must have been a much smaller machine.
From Wikipedia
A drilling rig is a machine which creates holes (usually called boreholes) and/or shafts in the ground. Drilling rigs can be massive structures housing equipment used to drill water wells, oil wells, or natural gas extraction wells, or they can be small enough to be moved manually by one person.[citation needed] They sample sub-surface mineral deposits, test rock, soil and groundwater physical properties, and also can be used to install sub-surface fabrications, such as underground utilities, instrumentation, tunnels or wells. Drilling rigs can be mobile equipment mounted on trucks, tracks or trailers, or more permanent land or marine-based structures (such as oil platforms, commonly called 'offshore oil rigs' even if they don't contain a drilling rig). The term "rig" therefore generally refers to the complex of equipment that is used to penetrate the surface of the earth's crust.
Drilling rigs can be:
* Small and portable, such as those used in mineral exploration drilling, water wells and environmental investigations.
* Huge, capable of drilling through thousands of meters of the Earth's crust.
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Explanation:
http://tinyurl.com/ya5pzr6
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Note added at 44 mins (2009-11-24 15:29:15 GMT)
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Drilling rigs, of course. My first thought was of the big ones, then I realized this must have been a much smaller machine.
From Wikipedia
A drilling rig is a machine which creates holes (usually called boreholes) and/or shafts in the ground. Drilling rigs can be massive structures housing equipment used to drill water wells, oil wells, or natural gas extraction wells, or they can be small enough to be moved manually by one person.[citation needed] They sample sub-surface mineral deposits, test rock, soil and groundwater physical properties, and also can be used to install sub-surface fabrications, such as underground utilities, instrumentation, tunnels or wells. Drilling rigs can be mobile equipment mounted on trucks, tracks or trailers, or more permanent land or marine-based structures (such as oil platforms, commonly called 'offshore oil rigs' even if they don't contain a drilling rig). The term "rig" therefore generally refers to the complex of equipment that is used to penetrate the surface of the earth's crust.
Drilling rigs can be:
* Small and portable, such as those used in mineral exploration drilling, water wells and environmental investigations.
* Huge, capable of drilling through thousands of meters of the Earth's crust.
| Sangro
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| | Grading comment | got there in the end! thanks very much indeed. |
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