Sentences with phrase «sea oil exploration»

Both Scotland's study of North Sea oil exploration and development know - how and its adaptation of oil rig platform designs was described by Michael Kanellos in this space last year.

Deep - sea oil exploration will probably release future spills, Solomon says, and global warming could destabilize large undersea deposits of frozen methane, leading to local ocean acidification or oxygen depletion (SN 7/31/2010).

Not exact matches

#WITH a 28 per cent success rate in the exploration of the Timor Sea region, there is currently a strong industry focus on offshore and onshore oil and gas development.

West Oil NL has achieved a milestone in its Timor Sea exploration after farming out its 33.3 per cent interest in ZOCA 96 - 16 to Phillips Australasia Exploratiexploration after farming out its 33.3 per cent interest in ZOCA 96 - 16 to Phillips Australasia ExplorationExploration Company.

shale oil may be a bubble but countries like Libya Iraq Iran produce nothing compared to their potential / production capacity + there is always offshore exploration recently Morocco seems to be in the spot light not to mention the arctic sea / north pole especially Russia where a new Koweit is to be found and also south China sea Venezuela's tight oil if all the types of oil are included venezuela must be a heaven with a quarter of global oil reserves with +300 billion barrels more than 260 bbls of Saudi Arabia that can still produce more than 10/11 million barrel / day that it's procucing today.

Ishiguro's parents initially assumed their move to England would be temporary (his father worked in oil exploration in the North Sea) but they remained, and gave their son what he describes as a «very typical... southern English upbringing,» although only Japanese was spoken at home.

A straightforward way of appreciating this point consists in calculating the effective tax ratio («ETR») for petroleum exploration and production activities in all the jurisdictions producing oil and natural gas from the North Sea.

In a previous round of US exploration in the 1980s and 1990s, oil companies drilled a handful of wells in the Chukchi Sea and dozens in the Beaufort — but those wells didn't prove economic enough to pursue.

The U.K. - based oil company, BP, PLC, has signed a $ 17 - billion exploration deal with Russia in the hopes of replacing the declining output of its current fields in the North Sea.

As sea ice in the Arctic Ocean rapidly diminishes, bordering nations are eyeing new underwater oil and gas exploration and research prospects there.

Already, such thawing Arctic ice — whether underground or at sea — has further opened up the territory to exploration for resources, particularly oil.

Although most oil and gas activities are now occurring only in the Beaufort Sea, primarily near Prudhoe Bay, there has been a recent lease sale in the Chukchi Sea, NOAA notes, and the agency expects oil exploration and drilling to increase there.

Another subsidiary, PTT Exploration and Production Pcl, was involved in Australia's worst offshore drilling accident in 2009, when thousands of gallons of crude oil spewed into the sea after a damaged oil well blew up.

The novel's hero, Alec Milius, is a flawed loner in his early 20s who is recruited by MI5 to sell doctored research data on oil exploration in the Caspian Sea to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

In the eastern Pacific Ocean, the potential for oil and gas exploration in the Bering and Chukchi Seas also exists.

Oil Spill Cleanup on the High Seas How quickly crews can react, how big a spill is (or, in the case of the Gulf incident, an underground leak from an an exploration oil rig, as opposed to a production rig or boat), and weather conditions all have a lot to do with the type of remediation or containment that will be chosOil Spill Cleanup on the High Seas How quickly crews can react, how big a spill is (or, in the case of the Gulf incident, an underground leak from an an exploration oil rig, as opposed to a production rig or boat), and weather conditions all have a lot to do with the type of remediation or containment that will be chosoil rig, as opposed to a production rig or boat), and weather conditions all have a lot to do with the type of remediation or containment that will be chosen.

... reduced sea ice extent has altered, and in the future may continue to alter, ocean circulation, ocean productivity and regional climate and will have direct impacts on shipping and mineral and oil exploration (see WGII, Chapter 28).

Oil and gas leasing and exploration activities are intensifying not only in certain parts of the Reserve but also on adjacent offshore areas in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas.

Climate Research Unit (CRU) History... From the late 1970s through to the collapse of oil prices in the late 1980s, CRU received a series of contracts from BP to provide data and advice concerning their exploration operations in the Arctic marginal seas.

Tagged Arctic oil, BBC, climate change, CMS, global warming, migratory species, oil exploration, oil money, polar bear, Red list, sea ice habitat, UNEP

The Gulf of Mexico is still under a drilling moratorium after the BP oil spill but plans to step up deep - water exploration on the other side of the world, in the South China Sea, remain largely unchanged.

Shell Oil announced in September that it was abandoning exploration in the Chuckchi and Beaufort seas after it spent more than $ 7 billion and had a face - off with Greenpeace demonstrators in Portland who temporarily blocked one of the company's ships.

OSLO / WASHINGTON Winter sea ice on the Arctic Ocean covered the second smallest area on record this year, part of a thaw that is opening the region to shipping and oil exploration and may be disrupting weather far to the south, scientists said on Friday.

From a recent article in the LA Times about Big Oil's calculations, Mobil oil's engineers were calculating for climate warming sea - level rises in Canadian drilling sites in 1996: One year earlier, though, engineers at Mobil Oil were concerned enough about climate change to design and build a collection of exploration and production facilities along the Nova Scotia coast that made structural allowances for rising temperatures and sea leveOil's calculations, Mobil oil's engineers were calculating for climate warming sea - level rises in Canadian drilling sites in 1996: One year earlier, though, engineers at Mobil Oil were concerned enough about climate change to design and build a collection of exploration and production facilities along the Nova Scotia coast that made structural allowances for rising temperatures and sea leveoil's engineers were calculating for climate warming sea - level rises in Canadian drilling sites in 1996: One year earlier, though, engineers at Mobil Oil were concerned enough about climate change to design and build a collection of exploration and production facilities along the Nova Scotia coast that made structural allowances for rising temperatures and sea leveOil were concerned enough about climate change to design and build a collection of exploration and production facilities along the Nova Scotia coast that made structural allowances for rising temperatures and sea levels.

Explorations in the South Atlantic near Cape Town, South Africa, in 1980 discovered pre-production plastic pellets and balls of tar known as «plasto - tarballs,» reportedly from the flushing of oil tankers into the sea.

Droggenland is so fascinating and all the artifacts recovered there were only found because of the oil exploration in the North Sea.

With the Croatian government's recent announcement of their plans to to open up the Adriatic to oil exploration, Zelena akcija / Friends of the Earth Croatia along with a number of other civil society groups this month officially launched a campaign to save the sea around Croatia, Montenegro and Italy from oil drilling.

An alliance of environmental and Alaska - based community groups are challenging the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management's approval of Shell's oil exploration plan for drilling this summer in the Chukchi Sea.

For example, the Pacific - Arctic Gateway through the Bering Strait would be an ideal monitoring area because of increased heat and freshwater flow, increased marine mammal migration, declining sea ice cover, increased oil and gas exploration, exploratory fisheries in the last decade, and flow of pollutants, especially persistent organic pollutants largely from Asia.

As more industries like mining and oil exploration move further out to sea into deeper waters, these gliders will be active watch dogs to survey the effects of those operations both before and after they get started.

While production skyrocketed on the American side of land and sea border, Pemex wasn't able to adequately fund new exploration initiatives or develop current fields, leading to declining oil and gas production over the past decade.

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For example, in the Croker Island case, 159 the applicants» evidence that they insisted on being asked about important developments in their sea country relating to oil exploration, tourism and commercial fishing was seen as supporting a right to be consulted and not as a right to control access even though in traditional Indigenous society asserting a right to be asked is a mode of asserting exclusive rights to country.