Sentences with phrase «for oil drilling»

For example, the Obama administration has continued to issue new permits for oil drilling throughout the U.S. and there has been a mass expansion of the use of hydraulic fracking to extract natural gas.

These lands are under constant attack from private interests who want to use them for oil drilling, logging, or urban development.

In an attempt to lure some additional Republican support for a climate bill, Kerry, Graham and Lieberman have been talking about expanding the nuclear power industry and offering new incentives for oil drilling off some U.S. coasts.

In southeast Louisiana, well - intentioned but environmentally destructive flood control strategies and the dredging of canals for oil drilling have led to the continued loss of football - field sized patches of wetlands every hour.

Noting definitive there, but it's a very real possibility the bill could end up with provisions that open some areas for oil drilling, in the name of compromise.

Temperature and sea ice changes in the Arctic can affect wildlife and open up new areas for oil drilling and shipping — both industries that can have heavy climate impacts.

A week after approval of the Final 2030 Scoping Plan in California, future Arctic Refuge lease sales for oil drilling is approved by Congress, and signed into law in the last days before the holiday.

A large amount of water is needed for oil drilling and site development, but water resources are much more limited in the 1002 Area, compared to areas to the west at Prudhoe Bay and the National Petroleum Reserve - Alaska.

Because the law includes much more than tax cuts — it removes Affordable Care Act's so - called individual mandate and opens up Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil drilling — potential avenues for future agenda items are now viewed as increasingly possible for Republicans.

And given the lobbying power of energy - extracting industries, along with those reliant on them (automakers, electric utilities), can embedded advantages, ranging from cheap rail rates for coal to direct tax breaks for oil drillers, be diminished?

Not exact matches

When the company auctions that oilfield drill, for example, the goal is for its pricing model to forecast demand in the near future based on different factors, such as the price of oil, leaving Ritchie Bros. less vulnerable to market surprises.

During oil's deep decline, Schlumberger offered to drill in oilfields that were on hiatus in exchange for a share of future production, a move that was «very controversial» and has yet to pay off, says Colin Davies, an analyst at Bernstein.

The time is ripe for anyone with new ideas on some facet of oil and gas exploration, drilling or production that could cut costs, says Yager.

Petroleum engineers conduct studies for new oil and gas fields, oversee drilling operations, and sometimes develop production equipment.

With headquarters in London and Houston, the combined company will have roughly $ 23 billion in annual revenue and offer oilfield gear including blowout preventers, pumps, drilling, chemicals, other products and services for oil producers in 120 countries.

To reach the oil, it has had to drill horizontally up to 8 miles out below the seabed, setting one world record after another for the longest wells ever drilled.

U.S. oil output has risen to more than 10 million barrels per day for the first time since 1970 thanks to improved drilling technology that dates back years.

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.

Rig supervisors are responsible for overseeing 10 to 20 people on several crews, who operate oil or gas drilling rigs around the clock.

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.

U.S. drillers added five oil rigs looking for new production in the week to April 27, according to energy services firm Baker Hughes, bringing the total count to a March 2015 high of 825.

More than 90 % of the continental shelf would be available for drilling rights and only one out of 26 planning areas across the Pacific, Atlantic, and Arctic Oceans and the Gulf of Mexico would be entirely off limits to oil drilling under the Trump Administration's plan.

U.S. drillers added five oil rigs drilling for new production in the week ending April 20, bringing the total count to 820, the highest since March, 2015, according to General Electric's Baker Hughes energy services firm.

For oil and gas companies that want to install drilling and pumping infrastructure there, continuous monitoring of conditions above, below and at the surface of the water will be integral, and right now drones are the only feasibly deployable technology that can collect and relay all that data in a cost - effective manner.

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.

Another significant observation is that the shaky financial position for some shale drillers also suggests that the downside risk to oil prices might not be as serious as once thought.

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.

One way to do so would be relaxing restrictions on drilling for oil and gas companies, the CEPR's Baker suggests.

The oil market is really multiple sub-markets for crude, fuels, refining, services, engineering, construction, drilling, skilled labour, steel, raw materials etc..

Prosecutors in the country last week slapped Chevron and drilling partner Transocean with an $ 11 billion fine for accidentally releasing around 3,000 barrels of oil off of Brazil's coast.

It's like drilling for as much oil as you possibly can.

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

The tally of oil rigs rose in recent weeks, with oil prices near $ 50 per barrel and demand for drilling equipment on the rise.

Production has risen in the world's fifth largest oil producer, but full pipelines and a rail car shortage have made it difficult for drillers to ship out of Canada.

She agrees that this jar, by itself, proves nothing about the environmental impact of «fracking,» the drilling technology largely responsible for America's boom in oil and gas production.

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Companies in this industry lease out equipment for activities related to air, sea, and rail transport, as well as construction of highways, roads, tunnels, bridges, and oil drilling.

Because energy producers cut back on drilling and production when oil is cheap (and less profitable for them), investors were concerned that they would also stop ordering as many of MRC's pipes, which are used to pump and transport crude.

Note, for example, that Nabors is an oil - drilling contractor.

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.

Following the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Schwarzenegger abandoned plans for new drilling off the California coast that could have raised $ 118 million in the coming year.

The gold and copper miner, which also drills for oil and gas, has seen its bottom line dry up as the price of each of those natural resources has fallen sharply recently.

Over the past five years, Imperial Oil, ExxonMobil, BP and Chevron have all pledged hundreds of millions of dollars for drilling rights to parcels of the Beaufort Sea.

U.S. energy companies added 12 oil rigs drilling for new production last week, taking the total to 759, General Electric Baker Hughes energy services firm said on Friday.

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 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.

The water they will be drilling up there will be fairly shallow and most scientists believe the oil is under less pressure which improves your margin for safety.

On Tuesday, the administration announced that it will sell leases for nearly 77 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico for oil and gas drilling — the largest offering ever.

The platform is used for everything from analyzing seismic data to find promising places to drill for oil to looking at plant genomes in search of new hybrids.