Sentences with phrase «us offshore area»

Additionally, it comes at a time when oil prices are on the rise, but stuck in a range that makes multibillion - dollar projects in new offshore areas unattractive for many drillers.

This restructure, with luck, will see SCEE return to some of its historical success in the offshore areas.

The plan includes the potential lease of acreage in federal offshore areas such as the Atlantic region.

He left that job to spend 5 years as a senior petroleum geologist for Exxon, hunting for oil and gas in offshore areas of southern California.

«The large mature breeding animals occur in the offshore area around the Race Bank, in the proposed extraction area,» she says.

By completing her biological cycle in both coastal and offshore areas of the central and southwestern Gulf of California, the researchers believe that the hammerhead was maximizing her foraging opportunities and continued growth.

Indirect tax zone means Australia but does not include the external territories and certain offshore areas.

For the past century, the offshore areas of coastal cities such as Goleta, Santa Monica, and Huntington Beach have been home to oil extraction sites.

The weather is similar. Although both are within the hurricane belt, Nevis has more frequent hurricanes, due to where it is within the normal hurricane pattern. Nevis also is prone to regular earthquakes. Ambergris Caye is quite distant from a fault. We only get a little rattle once every ten years or so, emanating from the Honduras offshore area.

And the oil that could be produced from offshore areas would have an effect, but it would be a small increment to the global market, and thus its price impact would be small.

The newly opened offshore areas are estimated to have as much as 17 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.

These included some offshore areas that had previous protection and other zones which scientists say could be likely habitats, according to the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

I wrote about that issue just this morning (I won't even try to include that link; it's the «Offshore (and ANWR) oil drilling, again» post, for those who care), and concluded that we will indeed drill in ANWR and those currently pristine offshore areas in time.

Obama's recent opening of new offshore areas for oil and gas exploration, the recent Gulf oil spill, and the approval of a wind farm offshore from Cape Cod, Mass., bring energy to the forefront once again, and motivate us to consider carefully where government policies are taking American citizens and the world.

NOAA also uses airplanes to take aerial photographs from much higher in the sky, which captures images of entire coastlines and offshore areas at once.

I'm not going to address all of them, but some of the most significant would impact hydraulic fracturing, ozone standards, methane controls and the next five - year plan covering access to offshore areas.

This includes announcing a withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, repealing the Clean Power Plan, rolling back vehicle fuel economy standards, attempting to rescind rules on methane emissions from oil and gas production on federal lands, ending the moratorium on coal leasing on federal lands, and opening additional offshore areas to oil and gas leasing.

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.

A new NOAA dataset of wind forecasts could help the energy industry identify which offshore areas in the United States have the best potential for wind resource development.

«With less than 3 % of the world's oil in our offshore areas, it's obvious that drilling will not solve our energy crisis but does jeopardize our coastal communities and economies.»

It means making tough decisions about opening new offshore areas for oil and gas development.

While Prince Philip is against wind, the Crown owns almost all of the offshore areas on the country's 7,700 - mile coastline.

These include better estimation and comprehension of the meteorological conditions across the offshore area, preliminary estimations of the AEP, and preliminary site condition assessments.

Already, oil and gas exploration is occurring in South Australia's offshore areas.

Victoria could develop wind power along its southern coastline and near offshore areas of the Bass Strait.

Strong wind resources exist in offshore areas of Queensland, but these areas abut the World Heritage - listed Great Barrier Reef.

Most of the northwest shelf is no deeper than the North Sea, another offshore area of intensive natural gas development.

The Nullarbor Plain and its offshore areas is a major undeveloped energy resource for the country.

Even in the fledgling US offshore area, a maiden floating project, the 12MW Aqua Ventus, off Maine, is inching ahead.

The potential generating capacity was calculated from the total offshore area within 50 nautical miles of shore, in areas where average annual wind speeds are at least 7 meters per second (approx. 16 mph) at a height of 90 meters, assuming 5 MW of wind turbines could be placed in every square km.

There is strong interest in going further out to sea to avoid visual intrusion — with floating devices also being seen as a key potential breakthrough, since, unlike the UK and some other EU countries, the US does not have shallow offshore areas on its Atlantic coast.

As a candidate, President - Elect Trump pledged to pursue an energy approach that would include «opening federal lands for oil and gas production, opening offshore areas, and revoking policies that are imposing unnecessary restrictions on innovative and new exploration technologies.»

Keep It in the Ground: Ending new fossil fuel leasing on America's public lands and offshore areas would keep up to 450 billion tons of greenhouse gases from polluting our atmosphere, says an important recent study.

And for coastal cities, restoring wetlands and / or offshore areas can remove carbon from the air all while protecting the city (from extreme weather events and sea level rise) and providing outdoor recreation areas.

And that in turn has opened up previously inaccessible offshore areas to oil and gas exploration and development.

A few weeks ago I wrote about a TV ad which the McCain campaign was running which, in short, said that 1) drilling for oil in offshore areas which are currently off limits is the solution to reducing high gasoline costs in the United States, and 2) that Barack Obama is the sole reason these areas are off limits.

Also, there's no word on exactly how, in a globalized market place, oil pumped from offshore areas would definitively end up in U.S. refineries.

The two lease sales were scheduled for 2016 and 2017 for offshore areas in Beaufort and the Chukchi Sea.

To use my father's vernacular: The amount of oil contained in offshore areas which are current off limits means bubkiss when compared to overall U.S. oil demand.

A few weeks ago I wrote about a TV ad which the McCain campaign was running which, in short, said that 1) drilling for oil in offshore areas which are currently off limits is the solution to reducing high gasoline costs

The potential for future discoveries is highly concentrated in frontier provinces (such as in the Arctic or in deepwater offshore areas), or in a few lightly explored Middle East countries such as Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia.

The FWC's officers patrol rural, wilderness, inshore and offshore areas, as well as places where other law enforcement agencies don't normally patrol.

[109] However, the Court has considered that there is native title in offshore areas and this Government has recognised that native title can exist up to 12 nautical miles out to sea.

«Native title is considered to be a co-existing title in offshore areas and consultation only is required», Report, p13.»

From January 1994, the NTA permitted native title claims to cover offshore areas and specified that Indigenous people have procedural rights in relation to these claims.

Not exact matches

The Trump offshore drilling plan would let oil suppliers drill in protected areas of the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans — places where governors, attorneys general and lawmakers along the East and West Coasts oppose offshore drilling.

On Friday, Trump is expected to sign an order to review areas available for offshore oil and gas exploration, as well as rules governing offshore drilling.

In the Americas, Europe and Africa («AEA») Area, the Pemex Abkatun - A2 project started the first of two offshore campaigns, successfully installing the eight leg jacket, before moving onto the tripods and bridges installation, which is ongoing.

Also during the first quarter of 2018, the ASA Area was given a Limited Notice to Proceed by PTSC Offshore Services Joint Stock Company for the provision of early preparation works for the transport and installation of the Sau Vang Central Processing Platform, the Dai Nguyet Wellhead platform and associated pipelines offshore Vietnam.

The plan would open the door for drilling in areas far beyond the U.S. epicenter of offshore drilling in the central and western Gulf of Mexico, giving oil and gas companies the opportunity to explore areas left out of leases for decades.