Sentences with phrase «from oil drilling»

The Service will soon decide whether to designate a huge chunk of the coastal plain as a «Wilderness Area» that would be permanently protected from oil drilling.

For the past thirty years, the Gwich» in people of Alaska, Yukon, and the Northwest Territories have been fighting to protect the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from oil drilling and industrial development.

With the Croatian government's recent announcement of their plans to to open up the Adriatic to oil exploration, Zelena akcija / Friends of the Earth Croatia along with a number of other civil society groups this month officially launched a campaign to save the sea around Croatia, Montenegro and Italy from oil drilling.

«Lloyd's of London, the world's biggest insurance market, has become the first major business organisation to raise its voice about huge potential environmental damage from oil drilling in the Arctic.»

At the same time it declared that the listing should not be used as a «back door» to combat global warming, indicating that the listing would provide polar bears no more protection than before from oil drilling in Arctic waters.

The expelled gases can be then condensed, cleaned of some toxics and refined (Much like some off - gas processing from oil drilling) to get chemicals to make drugs, cosmetics, etc..

From oil drilling rigs to warehouses, restaurants, and grocery stores, we create anything and everything!

A study published today in Science explains how wastewater injection sites — areas where toxic water left over from oil drilling and fracking processes is injected into the ground between impermeable layers of rocks to avoid polluting freshwater — could be driving the sharp increase in the sometimes - disastrous earthquake events.

Simply put, the risks from oil drilling are too great for New Yorkers to accept.

Not exact matches

With oil, which is traded internationally, prices collapsed (mainly) because the Saudis have flooded the market with supply in an attempt to retake lost market share from U.S. producers — whom also drilled too many successful wells.

The detail of a driller's hands is from a story on oil operations in Union County, Kentucky.

In April, the OGS said most of the state's recent earthquakes were caused by the injection of wastewater from oil and natural gas drilling operations Earth, which has become increasingly common in recent years.

Oil reached by conventional «vertical» drilling can cost $ 25 a barrel or less; oil extracted by fracking can cost from $ 35 to $ 80 a barrOil reached by conventional «vertical» drilling can cost $ 25 a barrel or less; oil extracted by fracking can cost from $ 35 to $ 80 a barroil extracted by fracking can cost from $ 35 to $ 80 a barrel.

Last March, Royal Dutch Shell said it was selling most of its stake in Canada's oil sands, a vast project that has extracted millions of barrels of sticky, gooey hydrocarbons from the ground in a process that resembles mining more than drilling.

EOG, too, gets much of its oil from fracking, but it has invested particularly heavily in scientists and technology to help it drill more accurately.

Again, its offshore drilling expertise proved its worth, as the two struck oil in the only well to be completed before Russia invaded Ukraine, triggering wide - ranging sanctions from the U.S. and EU.

OPEC wants to have an open dialogue with upstart U.S. shale drillers and learn from oil market players, after the most painful downturn in six oil price cycles.

Founded in 1997, Noise Solutions is an engineering - driven outfit that sprang up in response to mounting public pressure from communities located near mine sites and oil - drilling operations.

It is also planning to drill up to three new oil wells on a new project in Colorado after strong results from its first well drilled last year.

Obama had used the Antiquities Act more than any other president, his White House said in December, when he designated over 1.6 million acres of land in Utah and Nevada as national monuments, protecting two areas rich in Native American artifacts from mining, oil and gas drilling.

Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck, and a whole bunch of oil drillers head out to space to save the world from an oncoming asteroid.

Further, offshore drilling faces competition from onshore U.S. shale drilling, which can be started up and shut down quickly as oil prices fluctuate.

Oklahoma was shaken late Wednesday night by two of the strongest earthquakes to hit the state in recent years, the latest in a series of temblors that many researchers believe are caused by the burial of wastes from oil and gas drilling in the state.

OSLO, April 18 - Offshore oil driller Seadrill plans to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy in late June or early July to catch the rising wave of rig market activity, its chief executive told said on Wednesday.

The federal government in Brasilia quietly reassured the oil community that drilling permits were under federal jurisdiction and that they should simply ignore the howls of discontent from local officials.

«Last year, we successfully completed the transformation of our extensive Spraberry / Wolfcamp acreage position in the Permian Basin of West Texas from a vertical oil play into a horizontal oil play with a drilling inventory that will last decades,» chairman and CEO Scott D. Sheffield said in the company's 2014 annual report.

OSLO, April 18 (Reuters)- Offshore oil driller Seadrill plans to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy in late June or early July to catch the rising wave of rig market activity, its chief executive told said on Wednesday.

Rock Oil suffered along with other oilfield services firms from the downturn in drilling in its home province in recent years.

Ecuador has started drilling the first oil from Yasuní National Park, a pristine corner of the Amazon rainforest.

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.

Among the rules that BLM plans to delay until January 2019 are requirements that oil and gas producers submit plans to cut waste, measure and report gas flared from wells and dispose of gas that reaches the surface during drilling and well completion.

On a conference call to discuss fourth - quarter earnings that beat analyst expectations, the Calgary - based company said Thursday it plans to drill only 59 net Alberta heavy oil wells in the current quarter, down from 116 drilled in the fourth quarter.

Papa, CEO of Centennial Resource Development, is a closely followed figure in the U.S. shale drilling world, where producers rely on advanced techniques to coax oil and gas from tight rock formations.

Demanding non-competetive lease arrangements for drilling on public land does not prevent Oil companies from railing against government red tape.

This resulted in a range of policies — from the Clean Power Plan to methane regulations for oil and gas drilling — that now face uncertainty or complete rescindment.

Oil production from tight oil plays in the U.S. Source: Drilling Info and Labyrinth Consulting Services, InOil production from tight oil plays in the U.S. Source: Drilling Info and Labyrinth Consulting Services, Inoil plays in the U.S. Source: Drilling Info and Labyrinth Consulting Services, Inc..

Ms. Freeman formerly served as Counselor for Energy and Climate Change in the White House from 2009 to 2010 and as an independent consultant to the National Commission on the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling in 2010.

Beyond the actual gas project and LNG sales, China's state - run shipping conglomerate COSCO has also secured a 50 percent stake in the four LNG shipping carriers serving Yamal.90 Chinese engineers and workers have been deployed to the Yamal Peninsula to help construct surrounding infrastructure, which includes a Chinese - produced polar drilling rig.91 Moreover, a Chinese oil and gas rig producer now provides Russia with about 60 percent of its imported oil rig supplies, indicating that China is becoming a dominant player in this sphere.92 Chinese media recently hailed Yamal as an example of China's construction and engineering prowess and a symbol of its transformation into an Arctic player.93 In return for China stepping into support the project, senior officials from Novatek, the main shareholder of the project, announced that the first LNG shipment would symbolically go to China.94 But a British subsidiary of Malaysia's Petronas purchased the first shipment of Yamal LNG and sold it to France's Engie, which then shipped the cargo to its Boston import facility for American use.95 Western sanctions on Novatek, Russia's largest independent national gas producer and a company with close ties to the Kremlin, made Yamal's pivot to China possible, as sanctions forced Russia to find an alternative source of investment and technology.

After eliciting an admission from the agent that Mammoth believed it had discovered a substantial shale oil deposit suitable for fracking, Farmer drove a hard bargain for the drilling rights.

Grannies from Grand Rapids and cowboys from Colorado might vote for Delta Air Lines to provide more legroom, Exxon to assume a higher carbon price when it drills for oil, IBM to move some jobs from Delhi to Detroit and Apple to pay a higher tax rate than its current 18 %.

His company, Knightsbridge Risk Management, a private security firm in Dallas that serves the oil and gas industry, is getting calls from companies that want to plan ahead in case they shut down drilling operations in North Dakota and the Bakken shale formation.

Should carbon resulting from natural gas drilling be treated differently than that resulting from drilling for oil?

Take, for example, the sharp increase in U.S. oil and natural gas production stemming, in part, from the innovations in drilling and extraction technologies.

The 104 - page OPEC report finds that there will be greater demand for the group's oil in 2016, with customers consuming an average of 31.65 million barrels a day throughout the year because the market will be «supply - driven» as competitors, beset by low prices, continue to cut back severely on capital expenditures ranging from exploration to new drilling.

The drilling comes after President Rafael Correa abandoned an innovative proposal to keep the oil from the three ITT fields permanently in the ground in exchange for international contributions totaling half its projected forgone revenue.

But the only thing that seems to cause shale drillers to reduce spending — and therefore production — is lower oil prices, since the cash flow from crude is their lifeblood.

Oil and gas investments benefit from drilling budgets being standard in the industry as opposed to start - ups and movies which can see budgets fluctuate based on unforeseen events.

Even though Dover prides itself on being a diversified industrial company with businesses ranging from drilling equipment for oil and gas companies to refrigerators for retailers, the company decided Knowles could best create shareholder value as a standalone company.

America within a few years could be extracting oil from federal waters in the Arctic Ocean, but it won't be from a remote drilling platform.

An April report from the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers revealed that the oil and gas industry had seen a 62 percent drop in capital investment, and a drop of 66 percent in the amount of new oil wells drilled over the last two years.