Sentences with phrase «deep water drilling in»

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

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

Not exact matches

Oil companies have advanced the technology for deep - water drilling elsewhere in the world, but those operations are unfit to contend with Arctic conditions.

In his first interview with a business magazine since his appointment, Papp — who spent four decades with the Coast Guard — talks to Fortune about drilling in the Arctic, working with Russia amid the current geopolitical turmoil, and the need to invest in everything from icebreakers to deep - water portIn his first interview with a business magazine since his appointment, Papp — who spent four decades with the Coast Guard — talks to Fortune about drilling in the Arctic, working with Russia amid the current geopolitical turmoil, and the need to invest in everything from icebreakers to deep - water portin the Arctic, working with Russia amid the current geopolitical turmoil, and the need to invest in everything from icebreakers to deep - water portin everything from icebreakers to deep - water ports.

Deep - water drilling licences will likely become much harder to come by, not only in the U.S. but in most developed countries, including Canada.

Papp talks to Fortune about Arctic drilling, working with Russia and the need to invest in everything from icebreakers to deep - water ports.

In March, Transocean sold its fleet of shallow water jack - up rigs to Norway's Borr Drilling BORR.NFF for $ 1.35 billion, saying it wanted to focus on its core deep - and ultra-deepwater rig market.

Why boil tar and drill five miles in deep water if we just poked a hole in the ground for so many decades?

Water Torture The Russells do up to 75 minutes of drills in a four - to five - foot - deep pool.

Gary, it is just not factual that the reason they were drilling in deep water is because they were regulated out of the «shallow» water.

«We can't just drill deep and expect to run away from contaminants on the land surface,» says Scott Jasechko, a study coauthor and water resources scientist at the University of Calgary in Canada.

A pair of environmental monitoring wells drilled deep into an aquifer in Pavillion, Wyo., contain high levels of cancer - causing compounds and at least one chemical commonly used in hydraulic fracturing, according to new water test results released yesterday by the Environmental Protection Agency.

Chevron and BP are gearing up to drill in the deep waters off the Shetland Islands.

To free the gas trapped in the Marcellus and other shale formations, drillers pump millions of gallons of water mixed with sand and chemicals deep underground under pressure.

To recover the first samples of oil there in 2004, engineers floating 175 miles off the Louisiana coast had to send drill gear into 7,000 - foot - deep water and penetrate four miles of rock.

And crews should soon be able to drill in even deeper water.

Chevron, working with a consortium of other oil companies, recently drilled an exploration well in the Gulf of Mexico in waters 7,718 feet deep, a distance five times the height of the Empire State Building.

«Nobody had done rapid - response drilling in the ocean, nobody had drilled anything substantial under 7 kilometers of water, nobody had placed an observatory in a fault that deep, and nobody had retrieved a string of instruments from that deep,» she said.

At the end of oil and gas drilling, water that was used to create small fractures in deep rock to retrieve the fuel is injected back into the ground.

Oil companies have drilled in water twice that deep.

In 2000, the US Department of the Interior's Minerals Management Service (MMS) published a report warning that there were several difficulties connected with deep - water well control, that experience in this area was «limited» and with many rigs having very high oil production rates, a blowout could be «a potential show - stopper» for deep - water drilling in generaIn 2000, the US Department of the Interior's Minerals Management Service (MMS) published a report warning that there were several difficulties connected with deep - water well control, that experience in this area was «limited» and with many rigs having very high oil production rates, a blowout could be «a potential show - stopper» for deep - water drilling in generain this area was «limited» and with many rigs having very high oil production rates, a blowout could be «a potential show - stopper» for deep - water drilling in generain general.

When petroleum leaks from a ship or a deep - water drilling operation, «it tends to break up into tiny droplets that don't all end up on the surface of the ocean,» says Thomas Azwell, an environmental scientist at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, who was not involved in the work.

In addition to enabling drilling in ever - deeper waters worldwide, robot subs will also be instrumental in ramping up the installation of offshore turbines that generate electricity from the strong winds and tides found at sea, says Michel, one of the main organizers of the annual Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Center's 2010 International ROV Competition, which challenges students to complete underwater missions using ROVs they design and builIn addition to enabling drilling in ever - deeper waters worldwide, robot subs will also be instrumental in ramping up the installation of offshore turbines that generate electricity from the strong winds and tides found at sea, says Michel, one of the main organizers of the annual Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Center's 2010 International ROV Competition, which challenges students to complete underwater missions using ROVs they design and builin ever - deeper waters worldwide, robot subs will also be instrumental in ramping up the installation of offshore turbines that generate electricity from the strong winds and tides found at sea, says Michel, one of the main organizers of the annual Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Center's 2010 International ROV Competition, which challenges students to complete underwater missions using ROVs they design and builin ramping up the installation of offshore turbines that generate electricity from the strong winds and tides found at sea, says Michel, one of the main organizers of the annual Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Center's 2010 International ROV Competition, which challenges students to complete underwater missions using ROVs they design and build.

The agency tested the water in the shallow wells that tap the groundwater above the 169 gas - producing wells in the field; in two municipal wells in the town; and in several surface and deep wells that it drilled for monitoring purposes.

A month after Deepwater Horizon exploded, the Australian government reaffirmed its commitment to ocean drilling, putting 31 offshore blocks up for bidding, 17 of them in deep waters.

The risks are high that there will be no action on many of the issues arising from the Gulf spill, Boesch explains in a commentary article in this week's Nature (see «Deep - water drilling remains a risky business»).

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.

Due to certain unforeseen circumstances, such as hurricanes, the downturn in the national economy, the BP oil spill, and moratoriums on deep - water drilling, the project realized significantly less traffic and revenue than originally projected.

Awilco Drilling This position was sold early in the quarter when the company announced its intent to purchase an additional deep - water rig.

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.»

This real - life vessel, named CHIKYU, meaning «The Earth» in Japanese, can drill in water as deep as three Mt. Fujis combined, and it continues to close in on mysteries deep inside the Earth as part of the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP).

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The technology differs from «traditional» geothermal in that rather than exploiting existing wells of earthbound steam and hot water, EGS drills deep — miles down — to access layers of heated granite that exist underfoot everywhere on the planet.

Test wells in deep water cost over a million US smackers to drill.

Though the morale of the environmental movement was far from upbeat in 2010 — remember, COP15 had just ended disappointingly, an energy bill had failed to gain ground in Congress, and the Deep Water Horizon drilling platform had begun leaking oil into the Gulf of Mexico — there was some guarded optimism.

Now a much - discussed report by the inspector general of the Department of Interior shows how officials in the Obama White House were responsible for a last - minute change in the language of a document on deep - water drilling safety that formed the basis for President Obama's controversial decision in June to enact a six - month deep - water drilling moratorium (the move was more politically harmful than economically damaging, in the end).

Oil drilling has been going on in the Gulf, including deep water, for quite some time.

With 90 percent of New Mexico currently in extreme or exceptional drought, the harshest categories in the U.S. Drought Monitor, farmers are forced to go to extremes for water, including paying up to $ 45,000 to drill a well «down as much as 91 meters (300 feet), nearly five times deeper than before the drought.»

They said it was «very likely» that several thousand weak to moderate earthquakes in recent years were triggered by deep - earth injection of water extracted from the ground as thousands of wells have been drilled into shale oil and gas deposits.

The government hopes to revive domestic natural gas production with the technology that has transformed the energy picture in the United States — horizontal drilling into deep underground shale, and high - pressure injection of water, sand, and chemicals to create fissures in the rock to release the gas.

«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.

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.

The whalers shifted from Cape Cod to the Arctic because «just as in 2010 the oil - well drillers were in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico rather than up on shore, the easy - to - get resource had been exhausted.»

In 2010, an international team of researchers drilled almost 500 metres below the deepest part of the Dead Sea bed, to bring up evidence of a series of epic bygone droughts, when the trapped water evaporated to precipitate deep, dense beds of salts.

The climate movement is pointing out that unconventional fossil fuel extraction techniques (fracking, tar sands excavation, deep - water drilling, mountaintop removal coal mining) are leaving or will leave toxic wastes and scars on the landscape as the fossil fuel industry gouges and lacerates the earth in search of combustible fossil resources.

It's the same question that's invoked by the decision the British government is expected to make today (Tuesday): to allow exploration wells to be drilled in deep waters to the west of the Shetland islands (2).

According to this article, ExxonMobil (Esso) has bought the Dory gasfield in the Gippsland Basin which could contain up to 2 trillion cubic feet of gas, and has contracted a rig to drill the deep water off the coast of Victoria in the third quarter of 2018.

We use them to measure ocean properties in deep water prior to drilling oil wells.

installing an EGS plant typically involves drilling a 10 - to 12 - inch - wide, three - to four - kilometer - deep hole, expanding existing fractures in the rock at the bottom of the hole by pumping down water under high pressure, and drilling a second hole into those fractures.

The report estimated that between 2013 and 2015, banks put up $ 42 billion for companies active in coal mining, $ 154 billion for the 20 largest coal - fired power producers and $ 306 billion for companies that drill «extreme oil» (such as resources that lie deep under water).