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Recent Examples of driller
By the second week of December, the driller reached a depth of 1,450 feet and struck oil sands.
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David Goldman, CNN Money, 5 Jan. 2026
Wells Fargo initiates Chevron at overweight Wells says the oil and gas driller and refiner has a diversified portfolio.
—Michael Bloom, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2025
The driller responsible for it, Patton Exploration, solicited companies to extend a pipeline to the oil well to capture the gas and evaluated whether the gas could be used to mine bitcoin.
—ProPublica, 4 Sep. 2025
The new company, called Caturus, is a tie up of two Kimmeridge investments — a Louisiana liquefied natural gas export project called Commonwealth LNG, plus the fast-growing natural gas driller Kimmeridge Texas Gas.
—Christopher Helman, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for driller
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From Woodland to Rocklin and even Natomas, teachers in the Sacramento region are prepared to strike as soon as the spring.—
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Meanwhile, David was a teacher and football coach at the neighboring school, Alief Hastings.—
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From practical to fascinating OLLI instructors are volunteers, including many UNT faculty members who take time to lead classes.—
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Devanshu Mehrotra, lead instructor of data science and data analytics at General Assembly, tells Fortune that these figures represent an expectation gap between employers and their workforce.—
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Lynch, in particular, is a standout, weaving together a drillmaster persona, an occasional anxiousness, and a winking humor.—
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“Driller.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/driller. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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