Two other explorers on the west coast, AWE and Norwest Energy last week reported successful flows of gas from a test well.
The test well, Jack-2, delved through 7, 000 feet of water and 20, 000 feet of sea floor to tap oil trapped in tertiary rock laid down 60 million years ago.
But before a test well has been drilled, it is near-impossible to be sure whether the geological idiosyncrasies that excite oilmen will yield either oil or gas (or sometimes both, and often nothing).
Of the following four adjectives that might plausibly be applied to the snow leopard, the animal appropriated by Apple for the name of its latest operating system, which do you think test well with focus groups?
An employer should be able to demonstrate that those who do well on the test do well in performing the job and those who score poorly on the test perform poorly on the job.
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Once a well is drilled, time is required to test the well and size the equipment for the production rates.
Blow Out Preventer (BOP) that must be employed to complete and then test the well.
Fortunately, we have enough real-world tornado data to test how well the competing predictions match up with reality.
We believe that the goal remains to flow test the well as soon as possible, before year-end 2010.
The blogosphere rushed to test how well the new release worked and came up with some mixed results.
The phenomenon of a dramatic rise in test scores following the introduction of an important new public test was well known among measurement specialists.
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Armed with more certainty about the circulation patterns of the past, scientists will be able to better test how well the climate-change models are working, MacLeod adds.
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Arimidex failed another test as well: Data show that the two drugs given together worked no better than tamoxifen alone over a three-year period--even though Arimidex bested tamoxifen over the same time frame.
In fact, it seems like our test protocols, as well as our test results, were probably very much the same.
Ian Poulter has stood up well to the test of being a wildcard pick tremendously well.
But, the real test of how well Google leverages its acquisition is at least 12 months away.
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Obviously Thad Allen discussed the pressure test for the well and getting a sense and judging the intensity of the wellbore through pressurization, right?
Feel free to browse ideas, but even contributing a little can help you test out how well you can engage with others in online conversations.
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According to the IRS, the new testing requirement would have applied to only about 350, 000 of those who registered for 2012 IDs, since lawyers, CPAs and Enrolled Agents (who have already passed a more rigorous IRS test), as well as tax preparers who are supervised by lawyers, CPAs and EAs, are exempt from the test.
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For instance, last year, a large review study by Angela Lee Duckworth and her team a UPenn that found that rewarding people monetarily for completing an IQ test has a lot to do with how well they do on the test.
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"He has done well in Test cricket and averages 40 (40.59), " Vaughan told BBC Radio 5 Live.
So our test now becomes, well, how effective are these threats of temporary tariffs in gaining our goal?
Banahan will miss Saturday's second Test against Australia as well as next week's game with New Zealand Maori.
Wrong-headed as it often seems, it is hard to put down, and economic liberals would do well to test their ideas against it.
The Blueberry test indicated that the well needed some remedial attention.
The complex algorithms that gave AAA ratings to debts that should not have passed the smell test demonstrated all too well the futility of knowing too much.
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Of course, it is early days and many comments are still trial balloons seeking to test public reaction as well as the sincerity of the other side.
The auto industry has been working on so-called V2V technology for a long time but this is the first large-scale test to see how well it works in the real world.
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