Sentences with phrase «manora oil development»

A dispute between Tap Oil and one of its substantial shareholders has escalated after the operator of the company's flagship Manora oil development served joint operator Northern Gulf Petroleum with a $ 35 million default notice.

One company with large investment in Colombian oil development is Harken Engineering of Houston, Texas, which George W. Bush helped manage when he was in the oil business.

If approved, New York would be exempt from a five - year program from the federal government that seeks to make up to 90 percent of the country's off - shore areas open to gas and oil development.

The organization has also assembled some 1,000 scientists, engineers and medical professionals at the ready to work on pro-bono basis to help non-profits and human rights organizations on issues as varied as studying the potential for oil development in Kenya by examining unique geological conditions and assessing the potential for detrimental effects on local water quality.

At the same time, he said he didn't think the president would use the state as a case study against oil development, considering the recent decision to allow exploratory offshore drilling near Alaska.

Recent increases in the lake's water use due to population growth and oil development are not currently an issue in terms of continued availability, Clark said.

Increased oil development in that region in recent years has attracted thousands of oilfield employees.

Oil development in the Bakken region is dominated by hydraulic fracturing because of the type of rock in which the oil is located.

During the same period, the number of new oil wells per year more than quadrupled from 401 to 1,801; however, the increase in the number of wells is not the sole reason for increased water use when it comes to oil development.

Habitat is being disturbed and polluted by offshore oil development in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas, and as CO2 warms our planet, the arctic ice pack is rapidly melting; the whales are in danger from noise, oil spills and deadly collisions with ships, while global warming is steadily melting their icy abode and reducing available food.

Oil development and resulting impacts also threaten Yasuní's wilderness characters and its largely intact mega-faunal assemblage.

A mixed methods study to examine the impact of the Bakken oil development on the physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing of women in western North Dakota and eastern Montana

The story centers around a new sheriff near the Southeast US swamplands, Kyle Williams, who was selected due to his youth and perceived inexperience, which will make the oil development by a greedy magnate named Schist (Jack Thompson, The Assassination of Richard Nixon) much easier.

Its main focus is the Bakken light oil development in southeastern Saskatchewan.

Santa Barbara Adventure Company supports our local environmental organizations such as the Environmental Defense Center, Santa Barbara Channelkeeper and the Community Environment Council in their heroic efforts to monitor, contain, and clean the spill, as well as prevent future oil developments.

While at UCSB, she participated in conflict resolution efforts related to fishing, oil development, and marine mammal interactions.

Furthermore in 2010, the World Heritage Committee expressed its serious concerns about the potential for oil developments within and immediately adjacent to the iconic World Heritage site.

Currently companies pay 12.5 - 18.8 % to the feds for on and offshore oil development, while the lowest Interior Department proposal fixes the royalty rate for oil shale at 5 %.

This came up in 2010 with President Obama's push for more oil development, but bundled with broader commitments to develop new fuel options and transportation technologies.

President Obama's Climate Action Plan, released in June, mentions that an interagency task force on Bakken oil development is focused on reducing flaring.

In terms of advocacy, this is tricky; people in the fossil fuel sector will doubtless claim that lower climate sensitivity means rapid reductions in fossil fuel use are not necessary, so they can go on with their plans for more gas and oil development without breaching the Paris Agreements, etc..

Oil development in the Arctic Refuge would result in habitat loss, disturbance, and displacement or abandonment of important nesting, feeding, molting and staging areas.

«Increasing oil development in the Western Arctic will contribute to climate change, threaten special areas, and put further pressure on subsistence users,» said Earthjustice attorney Rebecca Noblin.

The presidential mandate to review our Sanctuaries protective status and offshore oil development places this protection under risk.

The Canadian media are full of speculation that the Canadian government will push for special treatment and protections from global warming regulation of its fastest - growing source of greenhouse gas emissions — the tar sands oil development in Alberta, where much of Canada's oil is derived.

Unfortunately, oil development and the Trump administration's energy policies greatly threaten the places, wildlife and people that make this region so ecologically and culturally important.

In its draft leasing plan that will set the boundaries for oil development in federal waters from 2017 to 2022, the Obama Administration proposed allowing offshore drilling along the Atlantic Coast between Virginia and Georgia.

But he can do a great deal with regard to encouraging greater natural gas and particularly oil development.

We empower local communities to protect themselves from reckless fracking operations, and we partner with leading scientists, financial analysts, and First Nations to stop the expansion of dirty tar sands oil development.

Amazon Watch's mission is to protect the rainforest and advance the rights of indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin, supporting indigenous - led initiatives in protecting more than 60 million acres of rainforest from oil development and mega-dams.

2006 Goldman Prize winner from Liberia, Silas Siakor, together with his team at the Sustainable Development Institute (SDI), is currently leading a public awareness campaign about the impacts of palm oil development and the explosion of corporate land grabs taking place in Africa and across the world.

Sustainable Development Institute / SDI ($ 49,700): To combat deforestation from palm oil development in Liberia by training forest communities to track and report illegal logging using an innovative smartphone application named TIMBY (This Is My Backyard).

A Wild Idea explores Ecuador's unprecedented proposal for fighting global warming and preserving a large area of pristine rainforest from oil development

Useful quantitative measures of the increasing ecological impacts are provided by the history of oil development in Alberta, Canada for production of both conventional oil and tar sands development.

The purpose is to make it more difficult / expensive for fracking and oil development Theoretically methane is 20 times stronger a greenhouse gas as carbon dioxide.

The agency should follow this up by moving swiftly to improve the permitting process for natural gas and oil development on federal lands, as Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke ordered earlier this month.

Price drove new oil drilling, more enhanced recovery and shale oil development.

The US just provided $ 1 billion to Mexico for oil development in the Gulf of Mexico while imposing a moratorium on oil developement in the Gulf of Mexico.

[SEPP Comment: Balancing the need to protect public welfare (environment) with the need attract capital and expertise necessary to expand oil development that enhances public welfare is challenging to bureaucrats of Brazil.]

As suggested in the article, the only way to stop the development of the oil sands (or any new oil development for that matter) is to address the supply side of the supply - demand curve, because as long as oil is at $ 90 bbl the producers will find a way to get their product to market.

The goal is to provide these communities with the tools to combat deforestation from palm oil development in Liberia.

For many, many people still deny anthropogenic climate change, still oppose protecting habitat from oil development, still consume resources and spew pollutants back out.

Solar development, for example, couldn't be more different than oil development, which is grounded in geology and mining.

Tim DeChristopher became an icon in the environmental movement in 2008, when he entered outrageously high bids for parcels of land being auctioned off for gas and oil development — bids that he had no intention of ever paying.

Methane emissions from natural gas and oil development continue to decline in a number of America's top energy - producing areas, according to a report by the group Energy in Depth (EID).

Crude oil development and production in U.S. oil reservoirs can include up to three distinct phases: primary, secondary, and tertiary (or enhanced)...

Represented an American energy investment company claiming royalties from a major Australian oil development company before an ad hoc tribunal in Australia.

«Some of the best Islamic finance lawyers can be found in Houston because you've got inbound financing activity from the Middle East investing in offshore oil development,» he says.

Not exact matches

LNG development also has strong political support in B.C. — all three major parties favour it in principle — because, unlike oil from Alberta, it would almost certainly result in higher royalty revenues.

The price of oil has risen to its highest since late 2014 this month, driven by concern over the potential for disruption to Iranian crude flows, but analysts say the degree of uncertainty hanging over the deal means the market is extremely sensitive to any developments.