Sentences with phrase «deep water exploration»

WOODSIDE Petroleum Limited has paid US$ 25.6 million for entry into hydrocarbon prospective, deep water exploration acreage in the Gulf of Mexico.

Representing one of its first major overseas acquisitions, the company's wholly - owned subsidiary, Woodside Energy (USA) Inc. reached agreement with the Marathon Oil Company — part of the USX - Marathon Group which is a unit of the USX Corporation in Pittsburgh — for the acquisition of interests in a number of deep water exploration acreage blocks in the Gulf.

The rationale for the merger was to diversify Shell's operations by improving its liquefied gas and deep water exploration capabilities.

The watch is made for those kinds of conditions, but nothing as extreme as deep water exploration.

Not exact matches

«According to the most recent assessment, the steady oil price recovery since summer 2017 and renewed interest in growth opportunities has led to oil majors catching up in terms of exploration activity this year, both in the shale industry and offshore deep water,» OPEC said.

«Low oil prices have significantly reduced operator spending on exploration - particularly in deep water, which is very costly,» said Cindy Giglio, an analyst at IHS Markit.

For deep water, the time frame from initial exploration discovery to production of oil ranges from 5 to 10 years.

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.

With the discovery of larger commercial quantities of oil and gas in deep water offshore Ghana, It became necessary for the bill to passed as the new phase of oil exploration has comes with new challenges with actual development, production and utilisation of its oil and gas resources.

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.

«We probably would approach the future of Mars exploration — particularly accessing habitable zones of liquid water in the deep subsurface — more cautiously, because life could still be there.

Beside the flood of potboilers and analyses, another genre has flourished: personal narratives of exploration, such as John David Morley's Pictures from the Water Trade, Alan Booth's The Roads to Sata and Leslie Downer's more sentimental, televised journeys into Japan's deep north.

With recent advances in deep - water exploration technology, he adds, videos like this are much more possible, giving us a better idea about what these mysterious creatures actually look like in their deep, dark home.

This study identifies a global network of sites with hydrogen - rich waters that will be targeted for exploration for deep life over the coming years.

«Most of what's known about the bottom of the ocean has come from images shot miles up in the water column, and it's a relatively coarse data set,» Cameron said recently at roundtable discussion in New York City with WHOI scientists who design, build and operate manned and robotic deep - sea exploration vehicles.

We believe that there are also some undiscovered deep - water pinnacles and submerged islands which may offer some fantastic diving, and we will be doing some exploration of the area to find them.

Possible sites include: Bandit Ledge: The gentle hills and ridges of this site support a surprising amount of beautiful cauliflower corals Garden Eel Cove: The slow drop - off ends in a sandy bottom covered with graceful garden eels Anglers: A beautiful archway housing a big family of lionfish High Rock: A massive ridge capped by a pinnacle rising to within 10 feet (approx. 3 meters) of the water's surface Anchor Drag: A maze of canyons, arches small caverns provide enjoyable exploration of the lobsters, crabs, shrimp and puffer fish who live here North Golden Arches: The main attraction is a rock arch with scattered coral heads throughout the area South Golden Arches: A large rock arch with a sandy area, housing numerous marine animals Harlequin: A great spot for a deep dive to see large schools of fish Kaloko Arches: The main attractions here are the unique rock outcroppings and lava formations Turtle Pinnacle: One of best sites to find green sea turtles Eel Cove: Interesting and rapid drop - off for deep diving Thunder Reef: Good spot for viewing deep - water animals West Kaiwi: This dive site is one of the best for observing fish, with lots of coral and a nearby drop - off Please note: This is not an introductory dive.

All sessions comprise of several elements such as entering and exiting the water from various heights, wild swimming, low level traversing, sluices, cave exploration, deep water jumps and more.

Shadows of the Tomb Raider will feature full underwater exploration filled with crevices and deep water tunneling systems.

Among an ever expanding (and as Karen Barad might say, «entangled») list, I am inspired by the complex and contradictory city I live in (the city of Chicago) and the incredible community of hard working, sincere, talented artists who I am surround by and have the privilege of working alongside and in collaboration with every day (too many and to diverse to name individually here) / / by mentors A. Laurie Palmer and Claire Pentecost and Anne Wilson and Ben Nicholson / / by Simon Starling and Andrea Zittel and Mark Dion and Sarah Sze and Phoebe Wasburn and Mierele Laderman Ukeles and Joseph Beuys and Eva Hesse and Hans Haacke and Robert Smithson / / by writers and philosophers Karen Barad and Jane Bennett and Rebecca Solnit and Italo Calvino and Steward Brand and the contributors to The Whole Earth Catalog (of which my father gave me his copies) and Ken Issacs and Carl Sagan and Neil deGrasse Tyson and William Cronon and Bruno Latour and Deluze and Guttari and Jack Burnham / / by ideas of radical intimacy and transformation and ephemerality and experimentation and growth and agency and mobility and nomadicism and balance and maintenance and survival and change and subjectivity and hylozoism and living structures / / by mycelium and soil and terracotta and honey and mead and wild yeast and beeswax and fat and felt and salt and sulfur and bismuth and meteorites and microbes and algae and oil and carbon and tar and water and lightening and electricity and oak and maple / / by exploration and navigation and «the Age of Wonder» and the Mir Space Station and the Deep Tunnel Project / / by Lake Michigan and the Chicago River and waterways and canals and oceans and puddles... to name a few.

I'll be seeking reaction to the ideas in the document from other experts considering the real - time disaster, the unfolding investigation of the incident and plans to prevent future blowouts as oil exploration and development continues in deep waters, from Newfoundland to Brazil.

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.

In June Chris Huhne claimed that «the impacts of the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon give us pause for thought, particularly given the beginning of exploration in deeper UK waters West of Shetland.»

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).

Well, just before the New Year, and while looking for a routine «crab sample,» scientists aboard the 211 - foot - long Exploration Vessel (E / V) Nautilus happened to capture footage of this neon burst of beauty in the Revillagigedo Archipelago off Baja California, Mexico, at 1225 metres (4,019 feet) below sea level, via their remotely controlled deep water vehicle, dubbed Hercules.

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.

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