Sentences with phrase «from oil platforms»

Fracking and acidizing threaten our marine wildlife, recreation, clean air, and water quality and yet they are taking place without proper environmental review from oil platforms in the Santa Barbara Channel, home to a National Park, a Marine Sanctuary, and a network of Marine Protected Areas.

Favorable settlement for product manufacturer of scaffold component that allegedly failed, causing plaintiff to fall over 100 feet from oil platform.

Not exact matches

They removed from the plans a backup tube along the sea floor that would ensure the platform could keep pumping oil even if the main tube got clogged.

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.

If oil prices continue to stay above the level assumed in the March 2011 Budget, and commodity prices continue to rise then corporate profits will be higher and the revenue savings resulting from keeping the rate at 18 % could actually be higher than in the Liberal platform.

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.

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«We call on PENGASSAN, NUPENG and members of international community to withdraw their members / expatriates from such oil wells / blocks as we shall not spare any person found in such platforms, including NNPC offices in Abuja and Lagos, oil companies headquarters outside the Niger Delta region.

Remember that oil independence from Middle East is a major GOP platform plank, and if Google invents some alternative energy technology which weans US off of ME oil, a vast majority of Republicans will be happy as clams.

Massive ocean waves that seem to come from nowhere endanger ships and oil platforms, but now there is a way to see them coming

Plastic marine litter has its origins in both land - and ocean - based sources, from untreated sewage and industrial and manufacturing sites to ships and oil and gas platforms.

A combtooth blenny peeks out from its tiny hiding place, having moved into the empty shell of a barnacle that once grew and attached to an underwater beam of a Gabonese oil platform.

Wahlberg plays Mike, the chief technician on the Deepwater Horizon, an oil platform more than a half - hour flight from land.

A regulated oil pump, the intelligent Audi thermo - management system and a energy recovery system — technologies from the brand's modular efficiency platform — all contribute to this high efficiency.

A regulated oil pump, the intelligent Audi thermo - management system and an energy recovery system — technologies from the brand's modular efficiency platform — all contribute to this high efficiency.

Powering the Ford EcoSport diesel is the same tried and tested oil burner from the Fiesta, the car on which the EcoSport is based on (B - car platform).

Two oil platforms, named Hilda and Hazel, formerly stood on this field; Chevron Corp. dismantled them in 1996 and production from this field ended.

[5] The Carpinteria Offshore Oil Field, about four miles (6 km) to the southeast, also once contained a pair of platforms dismantled that same year, and its three remaining platforms outside the 3 - mile (4.8 km) limit are visible from the shore at Summerland.

Platform A remains in the Santa Barbara Channel along with its three siblings, Platforms B, C, and Hillhouse, still pumping oil from the largely depleted field.

WWF and other organizations campaigned to stop an offshore oil drilling platform from being built in that critically endangered population's habitat.

There is of course the alternative option of staying on the Seaventures Dive Platform (modified oil rig) located about 500m from Mabul island.

To qualify as a specialty diver, you'll need to make two jumps and dives in the area, and most likely one of those will be at the Eureka Oil Platform, an 8 - minute helicopter ride from land.

In a small hidden cover accessible from the wreckage platforms by the Oil Well that lead from the upper area down into the canyon.

In the demo, one particularly spectacular set piece has a bridge being rammed by an oil tanker, forcing Joyce to assemble a series of platforms in order to save himself from a terminal fall into the bay.

The video installations feature female sea creatures, similarly overwrought by their environments: one a mermaid expelling oil - like substances from a tangle of detritus; another, inspired by selfie videos shared on social media platforms, poses for the camera, her face and body layered with Snapchat - like filters and special effects.

In the future, when fossil fuels are no longer the leading source of energy around the world and oil platforms aren't pumping oil from beneath the ocean floor, we won't have to worry about oil spills, but unfortunately, ocean pollution from spills, leaks and other sources is still a reality.

Though the morale of the environmental movement was far from upbeat in 2010 — remember, COP15 had just ended disappointingly, an energy bill had failed to gain ground in Congress, and the Deep Water Horizon drilling platform had begun leaking oil into the Gulf of Mexico — there was some guarded optimism.

Events like these rise from natural and technological systems and even from humanity itself; for example, a tsunami half a planet large, a broken nuclear power plant or collapsed oil platform, or a terrorist attack such as the one that happened on 9/11.

This week, he announced that the part of the agency which permits oil and gas drilling and collects royalties will be separated from the part of the agency in charge of inspecting the safety of oil rigs and platforms and enforcing the law.

The very first offshore oil platforms were installed long after these turtles disappeared from Gulf.

And, by using offshore platform technology proven in the oil and gas industry, we're able to build wind farms in deep ocean waters many miles offshore, where they are barely visible from shore.

In April 2014, Russia's Arctic oil drilling platform Prirazlomnaya, pictured here, loaded a tanker with the world's first major shipment of oil from above the Arctic Circle: 490,000 gallons from the Prirazlomnoye field in the Barents Sea, 38 miles off Russia's northwestern coast.

There have been some high - profile setbacks recently for the expansion of oil and gas drilling into the Arctic, from the 2012 wreck of Shell's Kulluk prospecting platform to President Obama's plan to bar energy development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Although oil leaking from the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform site may in fact be creating the greatest environmental and economic harm in U.S. history so far, there is new evidence that another looming environmental problem is likely to produce far worse environmental and economic impacts not only for the United States but particularly for some of the poorest people around the world.

I can't help but wonder whether, years from now, I'll still be writing pieces with titles like «Destroying What Remains,» as the Navy continues its war - gaming in an ice - free summer Arctic amid a sea of offshore oil drilling platforms.

The Secretary shall define the term outer Continental Shelf oil and gas activities for purposes of this subparagraph to include, but not be limited to, construction of vessels, drillships, and platforms involved in exploration, production, and development on the outer Continental Shelf; support and supply bases, ports, and related activities; offices of geologists, geophysicists, engineers, and other professionals involved in support of exploration, production, and development of oil and gas on the outer Continental Shelf; pipelines and other means of transporting oil and gas production from the outer Continental Shelf; and processing and refining of oil and gas production from the outer Continental Shelf.

Not only does more extreme weather threaten infrastructure like offshore oil platforms, but more droughts from global warming can create water stress, affecting hydropower and limiting resources for drilling.

Many are men and women from coal country and oil patch states who built their platforms on promises to encourage the use of fossil fuels.

Early excerpts from the platform appear flush with Mitt Romney's positions in calling for drilling in ANWR (which would require congressional approval), opening more coastal regions to oil - and - gas leasing, and other policies.

The orange cup coral (Tubastraea coccinea), also from the Indo - Pacific, lives on oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, a habitat of human construction.

When an oil production platform caught fire in the Gulf of Mexico near the Louisiana coast last week, a collective gasp would have been appropriate — from the residents of coastal Louisiana, who are no strangers to offshore oil rig disasters, from the fossil fuel industry, which is priming itself for a golden age under the incoming Trump Administration, and from the American public, whose oil reliance remains unchecked despite increasing awareness of both the massive downside of fossil fuel use and the increasing availability of clean, renewable energy sources.

About one - fifth of the junk — which includes everything from footballs and kayaks to Lego blocks and carrier bags — is thrown off ships or oil platforms.

The efforts of Greenpeace to halt the drilling for oil, off of the Arctic coast of Greenland, suffered a double setback yesterday, when its protesters were evicted from the Cairn Energy drilling platform - and then the oil company slapped a lawsuit on Greenpeace, through the Dutch authorities.

Represented the Wood Group PSN in the trial of several wrongful death and personal injury claims arising from an explosion on an offshore oil and gas platform.

Experience ranges from claims arising from the sale of coal to the construction of offshore oil platforms to disputes revolving around alternative energy sources, such as those related to the supply of PV solar modules.

$ 1.7 Million Verdict against a drilling rig and an oil company when a Jones Act seaman fell from an elevated platform of a semi-submersible drilling rig.

Advised a syndicate of banks, led by HSH Nordbank, on the restructuring and buy - back of the combined $ 120m senior and junior debt made available to US listed shipowner, Dryships Inc; advised Santander and HSBC on the # 36.2 m term and revolving facilities provided to Southern Communications Group; acted for the Republic of Kazakhstan in a BIT and ECT arbitration brought against it by a Turkish investor, which arose out of a dispute involving alleged oil transportation and transhipment investments in Kazakhstan; closely involved with the development of WeatherXchange, the world's first weather derivatives platform; leading advice to Nokia on various employment issues arising from the company's acquisition of Alcatel - Lucent across over 100 jurisdictions.

Photo: An offshore gas platform operated by Statoil ASA in the Oseberg North Sea oil field 140 kilometers from Bergen, Norway.