Sentences with phrase «about oil drilling»

So the next time someone gives you the usual about oil drilling and job creation, take it with a grainy drop of salty oil.

Note that a similar argument regarding polar bears is often cited by AGW skeptics and even Alaska's governor in her recent NYT piece about oil drilling.

Not exact matches

Oil prices fell as increased drilling in the United States pointed to more output, raising concerns about a return of oversupply.

The pace of oil and gas production gains has consistently surprised forecasters since horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, better known as «fracking», were pioneered in U.S. shale rock formations about ten years ago.

She agrees that this jar, by itself, proves nothing about the environmental impact of «fracking,» the drilling technology largely responsible for America's boom in oil and gas production.

Canadian and global petroleum companies have since spread mines and deep - drilling projects across northern Alberta's gargantuan reserve — oil sands production has nearly quadrupled since 2000 to about 2.5 million barrels per day.

Beyond the actual gas project and LNG sales, China's state - run shipping conglomerate COSCO has also secured a 50 percent stake in the four LNG shipping carriers serving Yamal.90 Chinese engineers and workers have been deployed to the Yamal Peninsula to help construct surrounding infrastructure, which includes a Chinese - produced polar drilling rig.91 Moreover, a Chinese oil and gas rig producer now provides Russia with about 60 percent of its imported oil rig supplies, indicating that China is becoming a dominant player in this sphere.92 Chinese media recently hailed Yamal as an example of China's construction and engineering prowess and a symbol of its transformation into an Arctic player.93 In return for China stepping into support the project, senior officials from Novatek, the main shareholder of the project, announced that the first LNG shipment would symbolically go to China.94 But a British subsidiary of Malaysia's Petronas purchased the first shipment of Yamal LNG and sold it to France's Engie, which then shipped the cargo to its Boston import facility for American use.95 Western sanctions on Novatek, Russia's largest independent national gas producer and a company with close ties to the Kremlin, made Yamal's pivot to China possible, as sanctions forced Russia to find an alternative source of investment and technology.

You don't have to worry about us funding private prisons, fracking, oil drilling, contaminated water pipes, or supporting idiotic political candidates.

Shares in the oil drilling services firm Transocean (RIG) are rising by about 2.5 % premarket after the company said it had reached two settlements related to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010.

Oil prices declined by about 1 % as the news about the next increase in drilling activity in the US overshadowed the optimism of market participants regarding the conditions of production by OPEC reduction agreement.

Don't tell jokes about the Tea Party or drill baby drill on the oil spill pages.

I do know a little something about oil well drilling.

About 2,000 wealthy investors poured $ 130 million into a scheme to drill oil wells.

The Independent Oil and Gas Association is holdings meetings this week in the hotel, talking about issues in the gas drilling business and meeting with politicians.

I got a great idea lets drill off Long Island to make up for the loss of Florda oil... Rump can not possilbly soil the beach in front of Mar a Lago but who cares about NY... Not Rumps fault we are a deep blue state.

Congress, as well as the Minerals and Management Service, the federal agency that regulates drilling in the Gulf, were already separately investigating allegations that BP has failed to keep proper documents about how to perform an emergency shutdown of the Atlantis, another Gulf oil platform and one of the largest in the world.

Delegates to the Republican National Convention chanted «drill baby, drill»; I'm assuming they were talking about oil.

The scientist - versus - scientist clashes are just some of the new details about science's role in stopping the spill that have emerged in the year since the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded and set off what would become the worst oil spill in U.S. history.

A report about U.S. oil and gas exploration in the Arctic published last month by the National Petroleum Council found most drilling opportunities under America's jurisdiction are less than 100 meters below the ocean's surface, more shallow - than - standard depths in other drill regions, like the Gulf of Mexico.

Koenig says environmental campaigners are deeply concerned about stepped up drilling plans in other parts of the Ecuadorian Amazon but they see merit in supporting the Yasuni Initiative as a means by which to enable Ecuador to extricate itself from its current «oil debt trap.»

Wells cost about $ 9 million to complete and petroleum engineers expect a 30 - year to 45 - year flow of oil via lateral drilling in multiple directions.

One of the lesser - known facts about oil and gas drilling is that most of what comes out of wells is water — truckloads of non-potable water that has long been a major disposal problem for oil and gas drillers.

According to data obtained by ProPublica, oil companies in North Dakota reported more than 1,000 accidental releases of oil, drilling wastewater or other fluids in 2011, about as many as in the previous two years combined.

This picture may be about to change in light of a study of deep - sea rocks and sediments led by John Parkes, a microbiologist at Cardiff University in the U.K.. By visiting oil - drilling projects at two sites in the Pacific in 2002, Parkes and colleagues obtained samples as deep as 400 meters beneath the seafloor.

Eventually Mature is made to realize that the plight of the Condor is worthy worrying about, and he is able to dissuade the agreeable oil executives from drilling on the bird's territory.

Much has been said about the 10 - year - long manhunt to capture and kill bin Laden but if, buffoonish, Bush Jr, wasn't so hell bent on drilling for oil and finishing his dear old pappy's lucrative business in Iraq then that time wouldn't have passed.

Pinto is set to headline «Black Thirst,» a film from Jean - Jacques Annaud about the U.S.» moves to drill oil in the Gulf region.

Other than having seen oil rigs in water a few places in the world, I don't have the prior knowledge about any kind of oil drilling to understand the text.

I'm a mature reader, and yet if you gave me a book on my level about off - shore oil drilling, I couldn't read it.

But we could save all the oil that they're talking about getting off drilling — if everybody was just inflating their tires?

Even more exciting, US Oil just completed drilling its first well (Eblana # 1) about three months ago.

-- making it the punch line of our conversations about the despotic bureaucrats who stole donations from Beninese clinics, the American media spectacle and wasted millions over Bill Clinton's indiscretions, the Ogoni villages burned so Shell Oil could take Nigerian land and drill.

In 1969, the Dos Cuadras was the point of origin of a major oil spill, [1] which came about when oil spurted at high pressure through faults and cracks around a zone which had recently been drilled for the first time.

March 4: Film screening of Shore Stories, 6 short documentary films about the impact of offshore oil drilling.

In a hearing this morning, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee is set to examine various issues related to offshore oil and gas exploration and to grill executives from BP, Halliburton and Transocean about the fatal and environmentally calamitous destruction of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig.

The bill aims to thread various needles, for instance including measures to encourage a shift from coal and oil to natural gas (which produces roughly half the emissions per unit of energy) but in ways that won't alarm environmentalists worried about impacts of expanded gas drilling.

Simpletons and Bush / Mcbush apologists also feel that ethanol which is LESS efficient than ordinary gas, is a GREAT idea, even as it creates the world's largest dead zone in the Gulf, offshore drilling is THE answer despite anyone w / a brain stating that this capacity won't come online for 30 years and which will produce about three weeks» worth of oil at our country's CURRENT rate of use, and that some silly gas tax reprieve, which will cost us in infrastructure improvements and lost jobs, is a good thing....

I am still reeling from the shock of McCain's announcement about offshore oil drilling.

This ignorance leads to radio ads decrying NIMBYism as the only reason for disallowing offshore drilling, even while these rich landowners still don't allow any wind / solar where they can see, make up all sorts of lies about wind / solar, while bush refuses to give equal subsidies to «alternative» energy and refuses to tax windfall profits to oil companies, who break records year after year in profits...

That translates into individual action and political pressure for our representatives to «do something», which leads to the endless political posturing about offshore oil drilling.

The president seems to have no clue about energy return on energy invested (oil shale and off shore drilling take huge amounts of energy leaving less net energy gain as a result).

In other shocking news, officials in Kuwait have announced that about 90 % of corals in their territorial waters are dead or dying; the first Hourglass Dolphin found in more than 150 years has washed up on the shores of New Zealand; Poison - laced mice are being airdropped into Guam to kill a rampant, invasive species of tree snake — there's a video, after the jump — , and in a remote part of the Pacific Ocean, an old oil - drilling rig has been turned into a hotel catering to snorkelers and scuba divers — the type of project proposed by Morris Architects for the (pre-BP spill) Gulf of Mexico.

More on Drilling for Oil in the Amazon A Remote Amazon Oil Facility Tries to Go Green Occidental Oil Accused of Poisoning the Amazon Trudie Styler talks Crude about Oil in Ecuador

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.

But think about it, part of what's happening in the gulf is that oil companies are drilling a mile underwater before they hit ground, and then a mile below that before they hit oil.

Several questions were asked about the integrity of the well bore, the drilled and lined hole descending several miles from the seabed to the oil and gas deposits far below.

(I am betting Bush is counting on more debt to finance the subsidies to oil companies who want to drill in these areas but will whine about the «risks».)

At current consumption, the US uses about 8 billion barrels of oil per year; conventionally recoverable oil from offshore drilling is thought to be 18 billion barrels total, not per year.

Last week the Coast Guard wrapped up a marine casualty investigation hearing in Anchorage that uncovered new details about Royal Dutch Shell's reckless attempt to drill for oil in the wild and remote Arctic Ocean in 2012.

The fact that oil companies now have to go a mile underwater and then drill another three miles below that in order to hit oil tells us something about the direction of the oil industry.