Sentences with phrase «from oil exploration»

The community of Clyde River is fighting to protect marine mammals from oil exploration in Baffin Bay, Canada.

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While noise pollution from oil exploration is a major disruptive threat to sensitive beluga whales, the looming threat of an oil spill would be disastrous.

These same Sanctuaries are now at risk to harm from oil exploration and future spills.

«Last year, the reef was in danger from oil exploration, and now Belize has stepped up to make protecting the environment a priority.»

The legislation marks the first time that a developing country has taken such a major step to protect its oceans — and all the life within — from oil exploration and extraction.

In the decade prior to the APF's creation, the initial $ 900 million windfall from oil exploration licences — equivalent to more than five times the entire Alaskan budget at the time — had flowed into and out of state coffers.

She said her government would also establish an economic development fund for the province and work to ensure that business owners benefit as much as possible from the oil exploration project on Anticosti Island.

In addition to the vote on the climate - impact report, Exxon holders will consider proposals to shift spending away from oil exploration to dividends and buybacks.

Not exact matches

The oil exploration method allows oil engineers to dig up oil in locations that would have been unthinkable just years ago, and oil trains are the most efficient way to get natural resources from the field to the refinery.

The photographs portray oil from exploration in swamp and desert to consumption in car and Flit gun.

The Obama administration considered opening some of the affected areas to oil exploration, but abandoned the idea in 2016 because of concerns from states, coastal residents and the military, which uses waters that would be affected.

In California, oil companies are pressing for further exploration of the massive Monterey Shale, a 1,750 - square - mile area extending from the agricultural Central Valley to the Pacific Ocean that federal energy officials say could ultimately comprise two - thirds of the nation's shale oil reserves.

Quadrant Energy will pay $ 10 million to withdraw from a joint venture with Buru Energy and Mitsubishi Corporation, which together own oil and gas exploration permits in the Canning Basin.

Though the Obama Administration looked into opening some areas to oil exploration on a smaller scale, the idea was abandoned in 2016 after concerns from the military, coastal residents, and states that would be affected.

Seadrill was forced to seek bankruptcy court protection from creditors after a sharp drop in oil prices in 2014 cut oil firms» appetite for exploration, pushing rates for rigs down and leaving many idle.

They were in the process of renovating their modest but beautifully situated home on tree - canopied Carter Road when land men from Houston - based Cabot Oil & Gas, a midsize player in the energy - exploration industry, came knocking on their door to inquire about leasing the mineral rights to their three and a half acres of land.

For deep water, the time frame from initial exploration discovery to production of oil ranges from 5 to 10 years.

The investment seeks to replicate as closely as possible before expenses the performance of an index derived from the oil and gas exploration and production segment of a U.S. total market composite index.

He's also chairman of a $ 26 million fund, BH Logistics, established in April with backing from a Chinese conglomerate, and a $ 40 million fund involved in shale oil exploration, according to documents filed in June and first reported on by Bloomberg News.

Looking ahead into 2018, I am keeping a close eye on the energy sector, where the ability of US exploration and production (E&P) companies to grow oil production — at half the price of oil from just a few years ago — remains a competitive advantage for these firms.

Bonanza Creek Energy Inc (NYSE: BCEI), an oil and natural gas exploration and production company that emerged from Chapter 11 in April 2017, could also benefit from an improved cost structure,...

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 largest detractor from performance for the quarter and past twelve months was Apache, the U.S. - based oil and gas exploration and production company.

While the largest component of this extraction is exploration and development of oil and gas resources, the bureau is also responsible for «non-energy minerals» (primarily sand and gravel) excavated from the ocean floor.

Last Wednesday (January 25th) the SPDR S&P Oil & Gas Exploration ETF (XOP) broke out from a three week consolidation pattern on huge volume and appeared ready to surge to higher ground.

Oil exploration won't disappear in 2015 and HP will be there to benefit from new projects.

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Today, due largely to competition from ETFs and alternative currencies and technologies, what used to be the go - to exchange for legitimate risk - taking in oil & gas and mineral exploration now resides far off in the distance.

better yet — he's the type of guy to extort money from a congregation that doesn't understand global economics, fiat currency, OPEC, oil production, the supply chain, the exploration of oil reserves or how foreign / state run companies keep supply low to drive up demand which they then use the proceeds to seed their Islamic theocracies which in turn oppress woman and preach anti-American propaganda.

Presumably that means divesting from companies that are engaged directly in coal, gas, and oil exploration and production, though not their use.

A straightforward way of appreciating this point consists in calculating the effective tax ratio («ETR») for petroleum exploration and production activities in all the jurisdictions producing oil and natural gas from the North Sea.

Repsol YPF of Spain and OMV of Austria also hold large contracts from the Gaddafi era, while Britain's BP have taken a leading role in developing Libya's emerging gas fields, and will now hope also to ramp up their activities in oil exploration and production.

Apart from its potentials for oil explorations, Borno has billionaires with huge investments outside the state.

The Governor's action to protect New York's waters from oil and gas exploration was prompted by the Trump administration's plan to vastly expand offshore drilling in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

The owner of Menzgold, superintends over a chain of businesses ranging from Minerals explorations, exploitations and exports, oil and gas, real estate, mass media, marketing and security service.

The council said he should not only apologise but rescind the decision, «If the terrain is not conducive for Nigerians from other parts of the country, then it should also be unsafe for continued oil exploration activities by multinationals and the Nigerian government.»

Utilizing a theme of broken campaign promises from 2008, when Begich defeated Republican Sen. Ted Stevens, the new TV ad from American Crossroads hammers the Democrat for both the percentage of votes on which he agreed with the president last year and the fact that Congress has not approved ANWR oil exploration.

«Some noticeably problematic amendments are absent from this bill, such as allowing the oil minister to decide what to do with any surplus or allowing the Nigerian president to allocate oil blocks for exploration.

«As technical and technically driven as GNPC's operations, the corporation is committed to supporting the development of human capacity among Ghanaians to ensure greater participation from citizens and locals in Ghana's oil and gas exploration...

While Cuomo claims he's trying to make New York business - friendly, an authoritative oil - and - gas industry source involved in Pennsylvania - based energy production told The Post the governor has repeatedly rejected offers of information on fracking from leading energy companies, which are prepared to invest hundreds of millions of dollars on gas exploration in the state.

Some people from Keta and Anloga on Thursday hit the streets to protest against the attempt by the government to begin oil exploration close to the Keta Basin.

The economic message from all of this exploration still holds true: The world is not running out of oil — it is running out of easy oil.

Image shows a cold water geyser driven by carbon dioxide erupting from an unplugged oil exploration well drilled in 1936 into a natural CO2 reservoir in Utah.

From the creation of nanoparticles to the exploration of the Outer Space, from the attenuation of oil production to the zoonotic disease epidemics, human beings has achieved great scientific advancements, but are currently facing unprecedented challenFrom the creation of nanoparticles to the exploration of the Outer Space, from the attenuation of oil production to the zoonotic disease epidemics, human beings has achieved great scientific advancements, but are currently facing unprecedented challenfrom the attenuation of oil production to the zoonotic disease epidemics, human beings has achieved great scientific advancements, but are currently facing unprecedented challenges.

«Survey permits are now being considered for oil and gas exploration along the U.S. East Coast that would allow surveys to occur as close as three miles from the coast.

Fifty years from now, oil and mineral exploration in the Antarctic may become economically viable and have the potential to cause great harm, but it is unlikely that treaty signatories would stand firm in the face of the great energy crisis and the great profits that await.

But the decision — which barred oil and gas exploration in the area and restricted commercial fishing — drew a lawsuit from Northeastern fishermen, including the Massachusetts Lobstermen's Association, Atlantic Offshore Lobstermen's Association, Long Island Commercial Fishing Association, Rhode Island Fishermen's Alliance and Garden State Seafood Association.

Competing with oil and gas exploration for geological expertise, and with only minimal backing from the government, U.S. geothermal projects largely became the realm of small companies in the West.

Littler, a PhD student from University College London, was lucky enough to experience life on board the JOIDES Resolution, a retired oil exploration vessel now used as a research ship by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), an international partnership of research institutions that focuses on exploring Earth's structure and history through ocean drilling.