Sentences with phrase «for offshore oil drilling»

That said, I think McCain misses the boat in the continued call for offshore oil drilling and the development of clean coal.

(04/02/2012) Last week, the U.S. Department of the Interior approved oil spill clean - up plans by Royal Dutch Shell Oil in the Beaufort Sea, paving the way for offshore oil drilling in the Arctic to begin as soon this year.

It is inconceivable that legislation raising energy prices that much will ever pass Congress — witness the about - face of Democrats to the Republican push for offshore oil drilling — even under a Democratic president and Congress.

Senator David Vitter, Republican of Louisiana, slams a bill promoted by his own party leadership that would speed up lease sales and permitting for offshore oil drilling.

In 2016, Surfrider Foundation and our partners successfully stopped the federal government's plans for offshore oil drilling and related seismic blasting off the Atlantic coast (read more).

Land restoration and other mitigation efforts could aid a region that is critical for offshore oil drilling and nearly 20 percent of America's shipping and navigation

The euphoria you feel after winning a big contract to provide marine transportation services for an offshore oil drilling company quickly subsides when the contract arrives.

Not exact matches

On Friday, Trump is expected to sign an order to review areas available for offshore oil and gas exploration, as well as rules governing offshore drilling.

The cap: Under the Canada Oil and Gas Operations Act, the company that gained approval for offshore drilling work is liable in the event of a blowout.

Additionally, it comes at a time when oil prices are on the rise, but stuck in a range that makes multibillion - dollar projects in new offshore areas unattractive for many drillers.

The plan would open the door for drilling in areas far beyond the U.S. epicenter of offshore drilling in the central and western Gulf of Mexico, giving oil and gas companies the opportunity to explore areas left out of leases for decades.

The fall in global commodity prices has also hurt the company: Cheaper oil, for one, means that offshore drillers have less need for General Cable's heavy - duty products.

In addition to tax changes (more on that below), Trump's plan to grow the economy focuses largely on generating more jobs in the fossil fuel economy (in coal and onshore and offshore drilling for oil and gas) and as a result of new infrastructure projects.

The oil - exploration rush in nearby Indonesia has been beneficial for Singapore, which now supplies much of the equipment used in offshore drilling.

Expanding offshore drilling April 28 In the same executive order, Trump ordered the Department of the Interior to create a new five - year schedule for leasing blocks of the U.S. outer continental shelf for oil and gas exploration.

NE is an offshore drilling contractor for the oil and gas industry with operations all over the world including operations in the United States, Gulf of Mexico and Alaska, Mexico, Brazil, the North Sea, the Mediterranean, West Africa, the Middle East, India, Malaysia, and Australia.

«Also, as public and government appetite for deepwater offshore drilling ebbs, interest in onshore, safer oil extraction operations is set to increase.

In the case of offshore driller Noble Corp. and oil tanker operator Teekay Tankers, supply and demand played a big role, driving down prices for their services while increasing competition for the available work.

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

For its offshore oil production and drilling customers — including BPTT, Respol YPF, BHP Billiton, British Gas Trinidad and National Gas Co. — the company provides a comprehensive service that involves the supply of personnel, groceries and equipment, laundry management and house - keeping services.

Protest the lack of a vote on offshore drilling for oil and gas.

Drilling for oil in Long Island Sound and nearby Atlantic Ocean waterways would be catastrophic for environmental and economic reasons, dozens of speakers told federal officials at a hearing organized by Rep. Lee Zeldin, who opposes offshore dDrilling for oil in Long Island Sound and nearby Atlantic Ocean waterways would be catastrophic for environmental and economic reasons, dozens of speakers told federal officials at a hearing organized by Rep. Lee Zeldin, who opposes offshore drillingdrilling.

With the release of its master plan for offshore wind energy, New York State is doubling down on its commitment to renewable energy at a time when the Trump administration is moving to allow coastal drilling for oil and gas.

When the chiefs in the region asked for 10 percent retention of the oil revenues for infrastructural development, you kicked against it with excuse that the oil is drilled offshore.

«We may be looking at offshore oil drilling,» he said, in arguing for the wind farm, which could be operational in 2022.

The Gulf of Mexico may be open for business and eager to attract tourists, but it's still unclear whether or not marine and coastal ecosystems there are healthy two years after BP's offshore drilling rig exploded 40 miles off the Louisiana coast, eventually releasing 205.8 million gallons of oil into the water column.

Now, Graham and colleagues are waiting to see whether the species becomes a permanent resident, perhaps encouraged by declining coastal water quality and a growing thicket of offshore oil drilling platforms, which may provide the perfect hard substrate for a bottom - dwelling life stage.

The resulting climate change is part of what makes drilling for oil offshore in the unfreezing Arctic possible, just as it has opened once mythical shipping routes such as the Northwest and Northeast Passages.

He also calls for oil companies to drill in the 68 million acres (27.5 million hectares) where they already have access but are not currently exploring, most of it offshore.

Man - made sounds such as offshore drilling, seismic testing for deep sea oil, and even the hum from that Spanish cargo ship permeate the ocean at ever - increasing levels.

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There is only one official source of data on pollution caused by offshore drilling in U.S. waters: the National Response Center, an online reporting system for oil and chemical spills managed by the U.S. Coast Guard.

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.

Trump's administration has already reversed Obama - era bans on offshore drilling in certain parts of the Arctic, a turn that could intensify competition for resources in the region with major oil producer Russia.

For example, she said, attending last year's rally helped encourage her to work in her state to support petitions to ban offshore drilling for oil and natural gFor example, she said, attending last year's rally helped encourage her to work in her state to support petitions to ban offshore drilling for oil and natural gfor oil and natural gas.

A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine identifies strategies for improving the reliability of bolts used in offshore oil and gas drilling rigs, thereby reducing the risk that a bolt failure could cause a spill of oil, drilling fluids, or natural gas into the environment.

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Bromwich received a fair amount of attention for his role as the oversight attorney in charge of the US offshore drilling practices in the wake of the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a position he was appointed to by President Obama, and before that for being part of the legal team against Lt. Col. Oliver North in the 1980s.

The Company is an international provider of offshore contract drilling services for oil and gas wells.

Transocean Ltd. provides offshore contract drilling services for oil and gas wells.

Plc engages in offshore drilling services for oil and gas industry.

It is appalling that while the federal government is pushing offshore oil drilling and mountaintop - removal coal mining, proposing to strip - mine shale oil and tar sands and to dramatically expand the production of high - level nuclear waste, they have declared a two - year moratorium on new solar electric power plants on public lands — which have some of the best solar energy resources in the world — for «environmental reasons».

He's also implying that he'll stick with his (ill - timed) support for expanded offshore drilling — although obviously with an aggressive clampdown on the oil industry and the agencies that, in theory at least, were supposed to protect workers and the environment.

2) At least ten years will pass before a tiny addition of oil might become available to us through offshore drilling; the crisis can not wait ten years for very negligible increases in supplies of the commodity we need to wean ourselves from.

I also discuss restoring bison, provisions in the farm bill that could benefit the environment, tightening control of offshore oil drilling and pressing forward — for a host of reasons — on United States ratification of the Law of the Sea convention.

Senator Charles Grassley, the Iowa Republican, has sent a letter pressing the Department of Interior for more information on its questionable oversight of offshore oil drilling.

For example, an «energy security fee» of $ 3.50 per barrel of imported oil would raise approximately $ 15 billion annually; reduced fossil fuel subsidies as proposed by the administration could generate upwards of $ 35 billion over ten years; a utilities electricity fee could raise at least $ 2 billion annually, as included in the Kerry - Lieberman American Power Act; and royalties on new offshore continental shelf drilling could raise more than $ 100 billion over twenty years.

That lack of political punch is crystal clear now, as the Obama administration, perhaps hoping to help embattled Democrats at the polls next month, has ended its moratorium on offshore oil drilling for companies that, as the news release headline puts it, clear a «higher bar for safety, environmental protection.»

Simpletons and Bush / Mcbush apologists also feel that ethanol which is LESS efficient than ordinary gas, is a GREAT idea, even as it creates the world's largest dead zone in the Gulf, offshore drilling is THE answer despite anyone w / a brain stating that this capacity won't come online for 30 years and which will produce about three weeks» worth of oil at our country's CURRENT rate of use, and that some silly gas tax reprieve, which will cost us in infrastructure improvements and lost jobs, is a good thing....

This ignorance leads to radio ads decrying NIMBYism as the only reason for disallowing offshore drilling, even while these rich landowners still don't allow any wind / solar where they can see, make up all sorts of lies about wind / solar, while bush refuses to give equal subsidies to «alternative» energy and refuses to tax windfall profits to oil companies, who break records year after year in profits...