Sentences with phrase «drilling projects»

Total expects to grow its overall production by 4 percent this year and the start of new drilling projects will likely lead to larger production gains in the years ahead.

Over the year, the company has cut drilling projects and cut a tenth of its workers.

Of the remaining $ 15 billion, some of it went to cash and others went towards investment into new drilling projects.

«A deep drilling project in Antarctica could commence within the next 3 - 5 years,» Fischer states.

The Japan Trench Fast Drilling Project rapid response drilling expedition sought to sample and monitor the fault zone directly through a series of boreholes.

However, recent measurements from a pilot borehole for the Campi Flegrei Deep Drilling Project suggest that stress has instead been accumulating in the crust22.

Hydrocarbon junior explorer Hardman Resources NL has enjoyed a healthy spike in its share price since giving the green light to its Colombo gas drilling project near Rome.

A research project called the Arctic Coring Expedition linked to the Integrated Ocean Drilling Project headed north, hoping to find traces of this phenomenon to explain how it had happened.

He is currently Chair of the International Subcommission on Jurassic Stratigraphy, and lead PI for a NERC and ICDP scientific drilling project aimed at understanding the Early Jurassic Earth System (the JET project).

Here we present benthic foraminiferal stable isotope (d18O, d13C) and trace metal records (Cd / Ca, B / Ca, U / Ca) from Deep Sea Drilling Project Site 607 in the North Atlantic.

Perth - based hydrocarbon explor - er Hardman Resources NL is on track to develop its gas drilling project near Rome in Italy as the next stage of its exploration programme.

Is a multi-well horizontal drilling project off of a single surface location materially different than a small - scale oil sands project?

The commission has declared a moratorium on Marcellus Shale drilling projects in the Delaware River basin until the rulemaking process is complete.

Priscu is looking forward to a similar U.S. effort called the Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling project next year, which will use a similar approach of melting a hole with hot water in order to reach the river - fed Whillans Ice Stream in West Antarctica.

He is still illegally exempting dangerous offshore oil drilling projects in the Gulf of Mexico from all environmental review as millions of gallons of oil gush into the ocean.

This picture may be about to change in light of a study of deep - sea rocks and sediments led by John Parkes, a microbiologist at Cardiff University in the U.K.. By visiting oil - drilling projects at two sites in the Pacific in 2002, Parkes and colleagues obtained samples as deep as 400 meters beneath the seafloor.

«These specific technologies can reduce the risk of drilling problems, so they could easily save $ 100,000 to $ 200,000 per drilling project by increasing the knowledge of the geological formations,» says Colleen Kennedy, an analyst at Lux Research, a technology market research firm.

As Exxon Mobil's CEO, Tillerson helped steward the company's entry into post-Soviet Union Russia, developing deep connections with the Russia elite business class and meeting with President Vladimir Putin repeatedly to discuss issues such as the joint Arctic drilling project Exxon Mobil developed with Russian government - backed energy companies.

Canadian and global petroleum companies have since spread mines and deep - drilling projects across northern Alberta's gargantuan reserve — oil sands production has nearly quadrupled since 2000 to about 2.5 million barrels per day.

SHIB Inc. • Sandia Park, NM 02/1993 — 06/2000 Supervisor Oversaw performance and completion of drilling projects in a geotechnical and environmental drilling company.

Data from a 1970s international research effort to explore the subsurface of the region, called the Dry Valleys Drilling Project, found tantalizing geophysical evidence — seismic and electrical resistivity data — that hinted at liquid water deep below.

With so many drilling projects, «it's like going fishing in the Everglades, in the Rocky Mountains and in Northern Canada», says Bell.

The conflict, says LeVine, is about whether that science needs to be completed before drilling projects commence.

People living near a geothermal drilling project in fault - riddled northern California are worried about more earthquakes after a similar project triggered a major jolt in Switzerland.

China, India, and South Korea have begun methane hydrate drilling projects, and Japan has invested a billion dollars in a test production program.

The new study is part of a major drilling project to understand the 56 - milion - year - old warming episode, which Bowen says first was discovered in 1991.

Until now, scientists had little direct evidence of the Great Barrier Reef's age and evolution, but data from seismic profiles and drilling projects nearby suggested it might not have formed until as recently as 500,000 years ago.

Both the UK and French drilling projects are funded as part of the EU collaboration.

Stacked cores from the Chinle drilling project.

The Obama administration is facilitating drilling projects on federal land in western North Dakota by expediting environmental reviews.

In 2005, scientists with the Integrated Ocean Drilling Project drilled 1,416 meters (4,644 feet) below the North Atlantic seafloor and claimed to have come within just 305 meters (1,000 feet) of the Moho.

Ohmoto, working with Dr. Yumiko Watanabe, research associate, Penn State; Dr. Hiroaki Ikemi, former Penn State post doctoral fellow; and Dr. Simon R. Poulson, former Penn State doctoral student now a professor at University of Nevada, and Dr. Bruce E. Taylor, Geological Survey of Canada, report in the August 24 issue of Nature the isotopic, mineralogical and geochemical results of drilling cores recovered by the Archaean Biosphere Drilling Project in the Pilbara Craton, Pilbara, Australia.

UC Santa Cruz scientists involved in ambitious drilling project to measure properties of the fault that caused the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami

For those curious about this particular drilling project, here's a short video report I put together several years ago after roaming Greenland for several days, including a flight up to the summit and the metal tube standing where this core was extracted.

Here, too, the bill appears to try to thread a needle — allowing coastal states to reject drilling projects up to 75 miles outside their own coastal zones.

«Statoil is removing the «oil» from their name at the same time they are trying to add risky Australian deepwater drilling projects to their portfolio and expand into the pristine...

He has sailed on several occasions with the International Ocean Discovery Program and its predecessors, and has led onshore drilling projects in Tanzania and Indonesia.

Throughout my experience as an air driller, I have successfully provided strong support and guidance to numerous staff members, while implementing efficient and innovative air drilling solutions to the complex issues facing «dry» environmental drilling projects.

Coordinated with geologists and EPA officials to resolve environmental issues associated with drilling projects.

Key Highlights: • Successfully raised $ 250K in capital that funds the oil drilling projects currently online.

All three papers are based on results from the international Japan Trench Fast Drilling Project (JFAST), which Brodsky helped organize.