Sentences with phrase «[outer continental shelf»

That plan was nowhere near as broad in scope as the new Trump oil drilling proposal, which would make available drilling rights in more than 90 % of the continental shelf.

More than 90 % of the continental shelf would be available for drilling rights and only one out of 26 planning areas across the Pacific, Atlantic, and Arctic Oceans and the Gulf of Mexico would be entirely off limits to oil drilling under the Trump Administration's plan.

The Trump administration announced Thursday a draft proposal to offer offshore blocks to oil and gas drillers in almost all of the U.S. outer continental shelf.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said the draft proposal for offshore leasing between 2019 and 2024 would offer about 90 percent of the U.S. outer continental shelf, the largest lease sale ever.

Drilling in the Atlantic and Pacific outer continental shelf faces stiff opposition from many governors, including Trump allies like Florida Gov. Rick Scott.

In April, Trump signed the America First Offshore Energy Executive Order instructing Zinke to revise the current five - year schedule for leasing blocks of the U.S. outer continental shelf, the waters off the U.S. shore that the federal government governs.

* Aker Solutions will deliver electrical wireline logging services and wireline tractor services at the oil and gas fields where Dong Energy operates on the Danish and Norwegian continental shelves.

Expanding offshore drilling April 28 In the same executive order, Trump ordered the Department of the Interior to create a new five - year schedule for leasing blocks of the U.S. outer continental shelf for oil and gas exploration.

In a statement, Zinke said opening the Gulf's outer continental shelf to development will aid drillers, under pressure from low prices, by providing more opportunities offshore.

Trump's new executive order now urges the U.S. Department of Interior to reassess and replace the most recent five - year oil and gas development plan the Obama administration put in place for the outer continental shelf, which covers federal waters off all U.S. coasts.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In response to President Obama's action withdrawing large sections of the outer continental shelf for oil and gas exploration, Karen Harbert, president and CEO of the U.S. Chamber's Institute for 21st Century Energy, issued the following statement:

The auction was closely watched as a gauge of sentiment towards Brazilian oil exploration projects after a decade of Petrobras» reign in the country's continental shelf.

As the Interior Department hosts public «listening sessions» through early March to explain its proposed five - year lease plan — which would open 95 percent of the nation's outer continental shelf to potential drilling — a growing chorus of bipartisan opposition is finding its voice.

Darryl Fears reports: «As the Interior Department hosts public «listening sessions» through early March to explain its proposed five - year lease plan — which would open 95 percent of the nation's outer continental shelf to potential drilling — a growing chorus of bipartisan opposition is finding its voice.

One of those items was a five - year lease plan from the Department of Interior, for the years 2017 through 2022, which includes territories the federal government plans on auctioning off for oil and gas drilling on the outer continental shelf.

Additional presentations will range from the navigational challenges seabirds confront within the «hook» of Cape Cod Bay and how to identify Massachusetts species to habitat issues on the continental shelf and across the Gulf of Maine.

«Now Therefore I, Lieutenant - Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu - Ojukwu, Military Governor of Eastern Nigeria, by virtue of the authority, and pursuant to the principles recited above,» he announced in a broadcast, which thereafter triggered wild jubilations in the streets, «do hereby solemnly proclaim that the territory and region known as and called Eastern Nigeria, together with her continental shelf and territorial waters, shall henceforth be an independent sovereign state of the name and title of Biafra.»

They have no territorial sea of their own, and their presence does not affect the delimitation of the territorial sea, the exclusive economic zone or the continental shelf.

Zinke pledged to meet with every governor affected by the Trump administration's move to expand offshore drilling rights off nearly all of the nation's outer continental shelf.

He signed an Americans for Prosperity pledge promising to oppose carbon taxes in 2010, and in 2011 voted to open the continental shelf to oil drilling.

Mr Huhne told MPs yesterday that there were potentially 20 billion barrels of oil in the UK continental shelf and that «the low carbon economy must happen but it will not happen tomorrow».

President Akufo - Addo also recounted how in July 2008, Ghana began preparations for the establishment of the outer limits of the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles, and highlighted the unique role played by the then Minister for Lands, Forestry and Mines, Prof. Dominic Fobih, who discovered and brought to the attention of President Kufuor's administration, the conditionality of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea's (UNCLOS) approaching deadline of 13th May, 2009.

She requested the Special Chamber to declare that Ghana had a «mutually recognized, agreed and applied an equidistant - based maritime boundary in the territorial sea, EEZ and continental shelf with 200M» with its neighbor.

A sonar mapping cruise taken in June to the Baltimore, Washington and Norfolk Canyons and selected regions of the continental shelf revealed steep escarpments that probably pose no tsunami hazard

All three countries claim that the ridge is part of their continental shelf, which would give them rights to exploit the Arctic Ocean's natural resources.

It takes time to cover something as large as the world's oceans, so the 2,000 - plus census takers from more than 80 countries have broken up their assignment into 17 more manageable subgroups — like coral reefs, continental shelves, and mid-ocean ridges — that should provide a good overview of what's out there.

When Obama emphasized his «all of the above» energy plan, it sparked a combative back - and - forth duel with a subtext about who would create more jobs by permitting the private sector to develop fossil fuels on public land and on the outer continental shelf.

Additionally, the Department said it would eliminate a regulatory step in cases where a wind developer did not face competition from another company for leasing part of the outer continental shelf.

Today, scientists have located fresh offshore aquifers across the globe, from the continental shelf off New Jersey to the Japan Trench.

NODES OF NEPTUNE Connected by more than 800 kilometers of fiber optic cable, NEPTUNE's research stations probe diverse underwater worlds extending from the shallows of the continental shelf into the depths of the abyss: 1.

This interaction may occur anywhere in the ocean, in particular in regions where surface - gravity waves interact as they reflect from continental shelf breaks, where the deep - sea suddenly faces a much shallower shoreline.

A sonar mapping cruise taken in June to the Baltimore, Washington and Norfolk Canyons and selected regions of the continental shelf between the canyons marked the first field effort of the multiyear Deep - Water Mid-Atlantic Canyons Project.

The continental shelf heaves upward, lifting a mountain of seawater.

Plunging into the ocean off the west coast of Vancouver Island, the more than 800 kilometers of fiber optic cables that connect the research stations stretch across the continental shelf, plummet down the slope and across an abyssal plain, and skirt hydrothermal vents near a mid-ocean ridge where the Earth gives birth to new ocean crust.

It was followed a few years later by the 60 - foot - long, cylindrical Sealab III, which was designed so a dozen aquanauts at a time could conduct experiments at a depth of 600 feet, a giant leap out onto the continental shelf.

Records held by the National Marine Fisheries Service show parts of the continental shelf can be trawled between zero and 10 times a year.

Lothar Stramma, a physical oceanographer at the Christian Albrechts University of Kiel in Germany and his associates describe the hypoxic problem as global in a paper accepted for publication in Deep - Sea Research, stating that tropical low - oxygen zones have expanded horizontally and vertically around the world, and that subsurface oxygen has decreased adjacent to most continental shelves.

Gleason and colleagues identified a strip along the continental shelf 14 kilometres from Morro Bay that had not been trawled for at least a decade.

A plague of oxygen - deprived waters from the deep ocean is creeping up over the continental shelves off the Pacific Northwest and forcing marine species there to relocate or die.

The crabs» arrival due to warming seas could deal a crushing blow to archaic species of starfish, sea spiders and ribbon worms at the Antarctic continental shelf

The data show that some of the water upwells close to the continental shelf along the western Antarctic Peninsula.

There is one exception: If a continental shelf juts beyond the 200 - mile limit, a country's resource claim may be extended.

She surveyed natural reef sea squirts for her Master's, gave beach walks and slide shows as a national park seashore naturalist, and assessed Texas's continental shelf while a research associate.

In some places, like the Amundsen Sea, the warm water even reaches the continental shelf.

During the 12 - day at - sea experiment called GLAD (Grand Lagrangian Deployment), the research team deployed 300 GPS - equipped custom drifter soff the UM Rosenstiel School research vessel F.G. Walton Smith in a region where wind - driven continental shelf currents mix with buoyancy - driven Mississippi River outflow currents and deep eddy - driven currents in the Gulf of Mexico.

The effect predicts that explosion - and impact - generated tsunamis will break on the continental shelf and thus will not cause large run - ups onto land.

Welch, working with the Census of Marine Life, a private organization in Washington, D.C., hopes to anchor a permanent acoustic array on the continental shelf and slope to monitor the behavior of critters as small as sardines and as big as whales.

Whereas most continental shelves are about twice as wide and inactive, like that off the U.S. Atlantic coast, the California continental shelf is very narrow and is dominated by active faults and tectonics.

But continental shelf waters are deeper than tidal wetlands and estuaries, so there is more time for bacteria and other animals to consume this dead matter before it can get buried.»

Similar blooms likely occur in many places along the Arctic's nutrient - rich continental shelf, Arrigo says.