Sentences with phrase «deeper drilling operations»

Other companies, like Falkland Oil and Gas, are pressing ahead with deeper drilling operations as the search for hydrocarbons continues.

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.

Regarding the Deepwater Horizon disaster, there is an excellent article analyzing the causes... «It was years of cutting corners, not one careless mistake, that caused the explosion... the normalization of deviance... It was BP's decision to attempt extraordinarily deep and hazardous drilling operations....»

Such deep - drilling operations would not want a repeat of events in Basel, Switzerland, where a widely felt magnitude 3.4 quake in 2006 ultimately stopped a similar geothermal project.

Then in 2008, a Society of Petroleum Engineers report warned that the hydraulic rams used in many BOPs to shut off oil flow may lack the capacity to cut through the high - strength drills used in deep - sea operations.

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.

Dig deep, they hide their conclusion, which seems invariably to be, bless our drilling operation, credit us with saving the world from the methane monster by making money faster than ever by building more drilling and processing and pipeline infrastructure, by committing money and effort to keeping the dinosaur alive a little longer.

Both Democratic and Republican politicians are up in arms about the offshore drilling moratorium, attacking the president for suspending further operations in deep waters.

South Texas, Louisiana and other states along the Gulf Coast are especially rich in natural resources, which makes this region a target for large - scale gas and oil operations, as well as corporations looking to profit from the mineral riches by drilling deep into the soil.

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.

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