Sentences with phrase «drilling plan»
A "drilling plan" refers to a detailed strategy or layout created before drilling for oil, natural gas, or other resources begins. It outlines the specific steps, locations, and techniques that will be used to extract the resources from the ground. Full definition
The federal government's offshore drilling plan significantly increases the risk of even greater environmental disasters across our coastal regions.
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Norway's Statoil, the world's most active offshore Arctic explorer in 2014, for example, has relinquished three exploration licenses off Greenland's west coast; Chevron has already put its Arctic drilling plans on hold, and it's likely that Shell will be forced to follow suit.
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) released a draft of the 2019 - 2024 five year offshore oil drilling plan for US waters.
The BLM rejected Ritter's proposal in the spring, instead going with an all - out lease with staggered drilling plans for the top of the plateau and less land set aside for special protection.
The move is believed to be part of joint drills planned by the Iranian and the Iraqi government armed forces in retaliation for an independence referendum held a week ago by Iraq's Kurds.
The moratorium was spurred in part by new drilling plans announced last month, though officials on Tuesday warned of what they say may be a more immediate, personal threat: a growing schism between activist groups and city leaders.
What's far more likely is that this represents piddling stalling tactics via insignificant drilling plans on the part of Exxon.
Opposition to a lease plan for the U.S. waters of the Atlantic grew after Virginia said it wanted to be left out of any future drilling plans.
The governor also pointed to the department's sudden exemption of Florida from the new offshore drilling plan as an example that more research needed to be done.
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The Associated Press reported Saturday that Cuomo came close to approving a limited drilling plan last month before environmentalist and former brother - in - law Robert Kennedy Jr. persuaded him to await a new study.
Nzuri have so far completed a total of 5,040 m of RC and diamond exploration drilling within the Fold Thrust JV with a further 2,764 m of exploration drilling planned over the balance of this year.
Based on this early success, we've decided to extend the drilling program through the remainder of 2018 with additional drilling planned at both Pan and the nearby Gold Rock project.»
Yasunídos, a national grassroots collective, collected over 600,000 signatures to force a nationwide vote on Yasuní drilling plans.
According to an analysis by Barclays (NYSE: BCS), North American drillers plan to spend $ 84 billion on capital investment this year, up 32 % over last year.
Giroud will be important in some games, because a well drilled plan to stop our flow is still a danger to us.
Cash - strapped Russian expedition curtails drilling plans as it sets out for the southern continent.
New York has laws governing radioactive materials, but the state's drilling plans don't specify when they would apply.
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New York is currently the nation's third - largest ocean economy, and the administration's offshore drilling plan jeopardizes nearly 320,000 jobs and billions of dollars generated through tourism and fishing industries.
The proposed drilling plan unveiled recently by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke would drastically expand offshore drilling in new areas of the Atlantic, Pacific, Gulf of Mexico — including the Eastern Gulf, and Alaska waters, and auction off permanently protected areas.
Today's new offshore drilling plan reveals, once again, that Trump's energy strategy entails little more than smoothing the road for Big Oil to to get whatever they want.
Today the Obama Administration once again demonstrated climate leadership by taking the Arctic Ocean off the table in its five - year offshore oil and gas drilling plan.
Scientists Urge Caution of US Arctic Drilling Plans TreeHugger's covered the significant risks over drilling for oil in the Arctic Ocean — words to the effect of «we have no way of responding to a spill in icy waters» have been uttered in Congressional hearings by the head of the Coast Guard.
Canada continued its rehabilitation from climate villain to climate champion, inking a comprehensive bilateral agreement with the U.S. to crackdown on methane emissions and put another stake through the heart of Arctic drilling plans.
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Activists tried to interrupt Shell's drilling plans in July by blocking an icebreaker vessel as they dangled from a bridge.
Although none of the Canyon's five previously operating mines are now open because of a glut of uranium on the world market, at least a dozen new drilling plans have been approved.
The Obama administration must say no to drilling in the Arctic Ocean, cancel these leases, and remove future leasing from the five - year offshore drilling plan.»
The Trump offshore drilling plan would let oil suppliers drill in protected areas of the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans — places where governors, attorneys general and lawmakers along the East and West Coasts oppose offshore drilling.
New York is one of several states that has asked to be exempted from the drilling plan, and Interior has said it is considering the requests and holding discussions with states as it finalizes the proposal over the coming months.
When Scott wrote him objecting about the drilling plan, Zinke felt moved to respond.
LONDON — Britain's ambitions to produce natural gas from shale rock were set back on Monday when a local government rejected a company's drilling plan.
Further, the state sees its production decline accelerating though May and into the summer, given the drilling plans of Bakken producers like SM Energy, which planned to reduce its rig count in the play starting in May.
«Such a quick reversal begs the question: Will the Trump administration give equal consideration to all the other coastal governors from both parties who overwhelmingly reject this radical offshore drilling plan?»
Mr. Thiele lent support to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's request to the federal government to exempt New York State from the offshore drilling plan, and said that, barring action by the secretary of the interior, New York's congressional delegation should enact legislation to remove the state from the initiative.
Baross wants a mission that drills below the places Mumma has pinpointed as methane sources, and that goes far deeper than the drilling planned for future missions.
The Russians held off drilling into the accreted ice for seven years, while they went through the long process of preparing a comprehensive environmental evaluation detailing their drilling plans and inviting comment, as required by the Antarctic Treaty, an environmental - protection agreement signed by nations with a presence in the Antarctic.
But there is no indication that Cape Town authorities have revised the drilling plan, and they had not responded to a request for comment by the time ScienceInsider posted this story.
As the top Democrat on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, she requested all correspondence between the Interior Department and the State of Florida regarding the drilling plan «so we can conduct our oversight responsibilities.»
Walter suspects, as I do, that this drilling plan opens up the rest of the state to development and there is nothing that says it won't.
Walter gave a booming, outraged speech in adamant opposition to the drilling plan.
Gleick's big lapse came when he strayed into aggressive advocacy of the kind more typically carried out by monkey - wrenching groups like the Yes Men (see its latest prank, a fake secret video of a fake party celebrating Shell's Arctic drilling plans, for instance) than a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Bjornson, a widower, is buoyed by a student who's become an important Arctic expert (and his lover), and his nature - loving daughter and an elderly uncle who is the estate caretaker take up arms against the gas - drilling plan.
You admire Walter Hang, so do I. Just last week in Albany there was an unprecedented gathering of groups representing hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers united against the DEC's drilling plan.
«The Trump administration's embattled offshore oil drilling plan that exposes our public oceans to oil spills has unified the public in strong opposition that cuts across party lines.
By approving Shell's drilling plan, BOEM has placed the desires of the oil industry ahead of the regions unique and already - threatened wildlife like the beluga.