New techniques have been developed to "sidetrack" a well when the pipe gets stuck or to control the pressures and temperatures found five miles down into the earth's crust with blow-out preventers and special purpose high-tech drilling rigs.

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Consider media accounts of how WD-40 was used to extract a python from a bus exhaust pipe or a burglar stuck in an air duct (yes, he was arrested).

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Consider the newspaper accounts of how WD-40 was used to extract a python from a bus exhaust pipe or a burglar stuck in an air duct (yes, he was arrested).

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The new pipe will be placed right next to the small section of abandoned pipe where the drill string got stuck.

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