Sentences with phrase «first offshore oil drilling»

The southern coast of Santa Barbara County was the location of the world's first offshore oil drilling, which took place from piers at the Summerland Oil Field in 1896, just 6 miles (10 km) from the spill site.

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Kuwait Oil Co. will soon offer contracts for offshore rigs and support services to drill its first undersea wells as the Persian Gulf nation tries to boost crude output to Continue Reading

It will be the first oil - exploration programme to run in US Arctic waters since 2000, and could mark the start of the first offshore commercial drilling in the American north, although it would take another decade to establish production wells.

So - called roadless oil extraction, in which oil companies use offshore exploration and production methods and leave less of an imprint on the area being drilled, is a viable alternative, argue Swing and others associated with Scientists Concerned for Yasuni, a network of independent researchers that first came together in 2004 to stop a proposed road project inside the park.

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Shell will be the first company to drill test wells offshore in Alaska, but ExxonMobil (among others) are lining up in the frenzy to strike it big in what's thought to be the last great frontier for oil production.

But then, in April, Trump issued an executive order aimed at implementing his so - called «America - First Offshore Energy Strategy,» which called for a review of the 2017 - 2022 Five Year Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program finalized under the Obama Administration and proposed that all U.S. waters be considered for offshore drilling.

Seismic airgun surveys are the first step toward offshore drilling, of course, but under the current five - year Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) oil and gas leasing program adopted by the Obama Administration, the Atlantic can not be considered for drilling.

Next week the House Natural Resources Committee will hold the first in a series of scheduled hearings on offshore oil drilling, the policies on which Salazar has said he intends to revamp in consultation with Congress.

«A proposal for the first oil and gas drilling in federal offshore waters of the Arctic took a step forward Thursday as regulators released a draft environmental impact statement, which reflects concerns about the effects of the project on marine life and local communities.»

* Project Manager for Drilling of Ultra HPHT Well offshore Guyana where discovered first oil, while managing US$ 180 mm Budget * Planned, QC'd & Acq.