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drill string

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drill string [′dril ‚striŋ]
(mechanical engineering)
The assemblage of drill rods, core barrel, and bit, or of drill rods, drill collars, and bit in a borehole, which is connected to and rotated by the drill collar of the borehole.


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Today, MTI operates three modern manufacturing facilities, supplying mine operations with hydraulic jumbo drills, load haul dump loaders, trucks, in-the-hole drilling rigs, rail haulage systems, mine locomotive buckets, crushers, underground mine utility vehicles and drill string components.
A big problem with working in the polar regions is icebergs--as the Leg 113 ice observer reportedly joked, the sound of the drill string is a mating call for icebergs.
Earlier in the drilling of the Bina-Bawi 1, oil was recovered from the drill string during a fishing operation from intervals in the Upper Cretaceous at the depths of 550 to 750 meters.
 
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