Sentences with phrase «deepest offshore waters»

Yet the ocean is a patchwork of habitats that reach from the deepest offshore waters, to where the sea meets and blends with the land in bays, lagoons, marshes, beaches, and tide pools.

in the deep offshore waters or in the shallows.

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.

What's more, the turbines would have to be placed far offshore, where deep water would make construction very expensive.

Oil service companies are getting hit because they are focusing their efforts on offshore drilling, an industry struggling due to low oil prices that can not justify conducting more typically lucrative deep - water drilling projects.

S51 Singapore Exchange — April 18, 2016 A subsidiary of the Singaporean marine and offshore engineering company has been implicated in a bribery scandal, to win the orders for deep - water rigs worth US$ 800 million, involving the Brazilian state - owned shipbuilder Sete Brasil and the state - owned oil company Petrobras.

This will make the most challenging of offshore operations, using the deep and ultra deep water rigs owned and leased by companies like SeaDrill, Transocean, Ensco and Rowan, increasingly profitable moving through 2012 and into 2013.

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.

Bonga is Nigeria's first deep - water development in depths of more than 1,000 metres, and is located 120 km offshore Nigeria.

Mooi explored the crystalline waters with a snorkel and flippers, while other members of the team dove to depths approaching 400 feet to explore the deep - water reefs further offshore.

A new power plant offshore converts the temperature difference between sea surface and deep waters into electricity

By foraging for prey in deep pelagic waters often miles offshore, these mobile predators can act as vital «nutrient vectors» to shallow reefs.

During the spring and summer months, deep ocean water rich in carbon dioxide periodically wells up along the California coast when surface waters are pushed offshore by strong winds.

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 build.

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.

Most of the deposits, some small and some large, are buried in or below permafrost and sediments in the ocean bottom along continental margins — where shallow offshore waters slope down toward the deeper ocean floor.

In the future, Australia's minerals, energy and water resources will come from far greater depths in the earth and from deep offshore plays.

As a result, we are seeing a lot more large whales spread out and much further offshore in deeper water and typically in some deeper diving modes where they can be a little harder to approach and tag.

Even sperm whales in deep waters offshore, where the delta's abundance concentrates food resources for these marine giants, depend on a healthy delta.

Two thirds of its water sank into a blue - black no different from the deep water offshore; the other third, on the south side of the city, shone a wonderful turquoise blue, lit from below by a shallow bed of rock and coral that caught the sun like the inside of an oyster shell.

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 12 hour, offshore, deep water, pelagic trip allows you to get out to the offshore waters beyond the reach of most day trips.

This point of the island is where the reef meets the land and offers deep water access just a few feet offshore.

The offshore deep water trench gives a lot of power to this wave wich can be heavy.

«These underwater mountains sit right at the interface between the shallow shelf waters and deeper ocean abyss, about 30 miles offshore.»

A huge variety of juvenile reef fish inhabit the shallow waters found here before moving off to the more dangerous deeper waters further offshore.

The combination of tropical conditions, near constant offshore winds and deep - water swells creates great, year round surf.

Since water depths drop off to 6,000 feet just a few miles offshore and continue to get deeper as you head out to sea, most of Kona's «grander» marlins have been found between just 2 to 5 miles from shore.

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The water, deep blue or turquoise, broken by the white crests of offshore breaks and small bobbing specks, surfers...

Since water depths drop off to 6,000 feet just a few miles offshore and continue to get deeper as you head out to sea,... Continue»

The sides of the faro are quite steep and the waters offshore are separated by deep channels that connect it to the rest of the barrier reef.

The deeper waters that flow offshore draw plenty of great sport fish to the reefs and scattered wrecks.

Although Lighthouse Reef is one of the smallest islands offshore of Belize, it is home to the Belize Blue Hole, a nearly perfectly circular body of deep azure water that was rated by famed marine biologist Jacques Cousteau as one of the top 10 diving spots on the planet.

Family groups (called pods) of orcas use this passage as an aquatic superhighway, speeding toward deeper waters farther offshore on their seasonal migratory odysseys.

A few feet offshore, the water turns deep blue and plunges 1,200 feet, making it an ideal spot for a mammal the length of a Boeing 737 to feed the blue whale.

Magic Mountain is an offshore pinnacle in deeper water with non stop fish action.

Sperm whales — Renowned for their enormous square heads, sperm whales are usually seen farther offshore, where females and their young hunt the deeper waters

The innovative floating approach will allow wind farms to be developed in much deeper waters than conventional offshore wind farms, which are usually placed in water depths of up to 50 meters.

Statoil believes its Hywind floating wind turbine technology will enable greater exploitation of offshore wind resources by allowing expansion into new deep - water areas around the world.

«Knowing that up to 80 % of the offshore wind resources are in deep waters (+60 meters) where traditional bottom fixed installations are not suitable, floating offshore wind is expected to play a significant role in the growth of offshore wind going forward».

Your supply chain is only as strong as the weakest link, so don't let uncontrollable offshore supply chain costs get you in deep water.

And, by using offshore platform technology proven in the oil and gas industry, we're able to build wind farms in deep ocean waters many miles offshore, where they are barely visible from shore.

Myanmar announced the award of 16 onshore oil and gas blocks in October 2013, and a further 20 offshore blocks (10 shallow water and 10 deep water), in March 2014.

Long - term plans also may include restoring wetlands, building a deep - water dock, and removing the remains of sunken offshore barges.

Washington Free Beacon — 27 January 2015 Foreign Firm Funding U.S. Green Groups Tied to State - Owned Russian Oil Company Executives at a Bermudan firm funneling money to U.S. environmentalists run investment funds with Russian tycoons A shadowy Bermudan company that has funneled tens of millions of dollars to anti-fracking environmentalist groups in the United States is run by executives with deep ties to Russian oil interests and offshore money laundering schemes involving members of President Vladimir Putin's inner circle...... The Sierra Club, the Natural Resource Defense Council, Food and Water Watch, the League of Conservation Voters, and the Center for American Progress were among the recipients of Sea Change's $ 100 million in grants in 2010 and 2011....

A recently published report on deep water offshore wind energy says that floating turbines in the depths in the North Sea are the future of wind energy - which could power Europe 4 times over www.ewea.org/report/deep - water

At the same time, the development of newer turbine and foundation technologies will allow wind power projects to be built in deeper waters further offshore, and the adaptation of standards and guidelines for national regulation will remain important for a national offshore wind energy resource and design database.

The wind farm will use Siemens turbines in North Sea waters at depths of around 95 meters (m) to 120 m — much deeper than the 20 m to 50 m at which conventional offshore wind turbines are installed in Europe today.

As is the usual case with offshore wind farms, the strong winds, difficult seas, and relatively deep water make the economics of offshore wind at Cape Mendocino and surrounding areas unattractive.