Sentences with phrase «for deep water drilling»

Developing this kind of capacity is desirable given that, among others, Woodside has plans for deep water drilling.

Not exact matches

For example, Argentina with nuclear energy, Peru with climate change, Chile with mining, and Brazil with deep - water oil drilling.

Oil companies have advanced the technology for deep - water drilling elsewhere in the world, but those operations are unfit to contend with Arctic conditions.

In March, Transocean sold its fleet of shallow water jack - up rigs to Norway's Borr Drilling BORR.NFF for $ 1.35 billion, saying it wanted to focus on its core deep - and ultra-deepwater rig market.

Why boil tar and drill five miles in deep water if we just poked a hole in the ground for so many decades?

The recent oil shale boom was powered mostly by small firms because larger multinationals like Exxon and BP are structured for big payoff, technically - difficult projects like deep water drilling and Arctic exploration.

For the record, I support the deep water drilling if it is, ironically, thoroughly supervised and regulated by civil authorities.

The EPA said the water samples were saturated with methane gas that matched the deep layers of natural gas being drilled for energy.

In 2000, the US Department of the Interior's Minerals Management Service (MMS) published a report warning that there were several difficulties connected with deep - water well control, that experience in this area was «limited» and with many rigs having very high oil production rates, a blowout could be «a potential show - stopper» for deep - water drilling in general.

The agency tested the water in the shallow wells that tap the groundwater above the 169 gas - producing wells in the field; in two municipal wells in the town; and in several surface and deep wells that it drilled for monitoring purposes.

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.

Clean subglacial access: prospects for future deep hot - water drilling.

Klein follows the «dark» money behind the propaganda of climate - change denial, the effort to dismantle the federal government to curtail corporate regulation, and the justification for the feverish pursuit of the riskiest forms of carbon - emission - producing energy from tar sands extraction to deep - water drilling, fracking, and mountaintop - removal coal mining.

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.»

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Now a much - discussed report by the inspector general of the Department of Interior shows how officials in the Obama White House were responsible for a last - minute change in the language of a document on deep - water drilling safety that formed the basis for President Obama's controversial decision in June to enact a six - month deep - water drilling moratorium (the move was more politically harmful than economically damaging, in the end).

Oil drilling has been going on in the Gulf, including deep water, for quite some time.

With 90 percent of New Mexico currently in extreme or exceptional drought, the harshest categories in the U.S. Drought Monitor, farmers are forced to go to extremes for water, including paying up to $ 45,000 to drill a well «down as much as 91 meters (300 feet), nearly five times deeper than before the drought.»

The Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA) is a nonprofit organization and a front group for the energy industry that opposes political efforts to regulate carbon standards while advancing deep water and land - based drilling for oil and methane gas.

«The goal of Sapphire is to produce a crude product that can be introduced into the existing crude stream for production costs that are similar to other new opportunities like oil shales, oil sands, and even deep, deep water drilling,» Jason Pyle, Sapphire's chief executive said in an interview.

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The report estimated that between 2013 and 2015, banks put up $ 42 billion for companies active in coal mining, $ 154 billion for the 20 largest coal - fired power producers and $ 306 billion for companies that drill «extreme oil» (such as resources that lie deep under water).

Amid the aftermath of the failed Times Square terrorist attack and the lethal floods in Tennessee — not to mention the president finally noticing there is a deep water drilling disaster in the Gulf of Mexico — the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming held a hearing for Democrats to attempt to gloss over fatal flaws exposed in global warming «consensus science» by the Climategate scandal.

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

It detailed how drilling deeper wells was speeding up contamination of groundwater supplies, and it provided the first 3D groundwater map which can help researchers show where water supplies are safe for drinking, and where water purification is needed.

In the search for water, the Yemeni government has drilled test wells in the basin that are 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) deep — depths normally associated with the oil industry — but they have failed to find water.

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.

Though oil companies have done intermediate wildcatting work in the Falklands since the late 1990s, new deep water drilling technology offers the potential for tapping into previously inaccessible areas.