Sentences with phrase «deep water drilling»

Right now the oil industry has pulled back on drilling, especially deep water drilling.

And obviously, it's not a good idea to allow further deep water drilling — we've seen firsthand how high the stakes are, and how devastating the consequences.

As the Montara oil spill showed, more competence and coordination is needed in deep water drilling in Australia.

Reteaming with Mark Wahlberg from his brilliant Lone Survivor, director Peter Berg adapts the true story of the worst deep water drilling disaster in history.

Now that the leak is plugged, the reasoning goes, perhaps a more organized effort to address the environmental ills the spill brought to light — oil dependence, the dangers of deep water drilling, etc — can indeed capture the public's attention.

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Though oil companies have done intermediate wildcatting work in the Falklands since the late 1990s, new deep water drilling technology offers the potential for tapping into previously inaccessible areas.

The recent oil shale boom was powered mostly by small firms because larger multinationals like Exxon and BP are structured for big payoff, technically - difficult projects like deep water drilling and Arctic exploration.

It's even tried deep water drilling in the high Arctic.

It appears that the primary reason for the spin - off was that Pride wanted to exit the struggling shallow water drilling business in the GOM and increase its focus on the floating and deep water drilling segments where Pride «believes the best long - term growth prospects reside in the offshore industry.»

Then fracking and oil sands and deep water drilling brought new supplies on stream and we got an oil price crash instead.

Developing this kind of capacity is desirable given that, among others, Woodside has plans for deep water drilling.

When drilling in oil - and gas - bearing formations submerged in deep water, the reservoir gas may flow into the well bore and form gas hydrates owing to the low temperatures and high pressures found during deep water drilling.

Thankfully, such a bill — one that requires deep water drilling be better regulated, demands oil companies employ more preventative measures and have thorough response plans, and eliminates the «liability cap» on how much those companies must pay in damages when they cause a spill — is advancing in the Senate.

Negotiating terms for the construction, leasing and operation of numerous deep water drilling units including two semi-submersible drilling units to be built in Korea and operated in Brazil, two semi-submersible units to be constructed in a European yard and two drilling vessels to be constructed in China and completed in Singapore.

In - depth knowledge of deep water drilling, principles of naval architecture, probe positioning systems, and Federal Acquisition Regulations

For the record, I support the deep water drilling if it is, ironically, thoroughly supervised and regulated by civil authorities.

«The goal of Sapphire is to produce a crude product that can be introduced into the existing crude stream for production costs that are similar to other new opportunities like oil shales, oil sands, and even deep, deep water drilling,» Jason Pyle, Sapphire's chief executive said in an interview.

Deep water drilling is very costly, and oil fracking... well, the environmental cost is so huge some governments went already on full brake.

Amid the aftermath of the failed Times Square terrorist attack and the lethal floods in Tennessee — not to mention the president finally noticing there is a deep water drilling disaster in the Gulf of Mexico — the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming held a hearing for Democrats to attempt to gloss over fatal flaws exposed in global warming «consensus science» by the Climategate scandal.

Conventional fossil fuels have begun to run out and the system is moving towards more extreme forms of energy like fracking, tar sands, and deep water drilling.