Sentences with phrase «in offshore waters»

Representation of an independent oil and gas company in connection with its development of an LNG terminal in the offshore waters of Southern California.

Their value lies mostly in the prospect that oil and gas will be found in their offshore waters.

Considering the oil, gas, and coal boom that the Trump Administration hopes to unleash on federal lands and in offshore waters, you might expect stepped - up protection for the American public and the environment.

Summertime is a special season in Belize, not because the weather heats up (Belize enjoys great weather all year long) but because a special group of visitors arrives in the offshore waters as part of their annual circumnavigation of the globe.

Males feed near the eastern Aleutian Islands and in the Gulf of Alaska, and females feed further south, in the offshore waters of Washington and Oregon.

Overnight charters are available in offshore waters from Port Douglas to Lizard Island.

Small treasures await discovery, while whales gather in offshore waters.

Most of these swarms have been found in offshore waters in summer months and were often dominated juvenile krill [2].

The sharks are much more common along the coast than in offshore waters.

Not exact matches

«According to the most recent assessment, the steady oil price recovery since summer 2017 and renewed interest in growth opportunities has led to oil majors catching up in terms of exploration activity this year, both in the shale industry and offshore deep water,» OPEC said.

Gina Hanrahan added that offshore wind costs were «blowing all expectations out of the water and halving in just over two years.»

The country had initially set June 21 as the date to open bids for 11 new blocks, located in border areas with Iran and Kuwait, and in offshore Gulf waters.

In a troubling sign of escalating tensions, dozens of Chinese ships confronted Vietnamese coast guard boats approaching an oil rig deployed by Chinese offshore oil company CNOOC in waters claimed by both nationIn a troubling sign of escalating tensions, dozens of Chinese ships confronted Vietnamese coast guard boats approaching an oil rig deployed by Chinese offshore oil company CNOOC in waters claimed by both nationin waters claimed by both nations.

As an example, Klein points to a 2003 incident in California when a Crystal cruise ship discharged 138,000 litres of waste water 14 km offshore into the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.

Mendonca and his team scrambled to adjust their strategy, and they ended up acquiring 21 blocks in shallower water, what Mendonca calls «ugly ducklings» — areas that Petrobras skipped over in the quest for bigger fields further offshore.

Overview of Renewable Energy on the Outer Continental Shelf — BOEM is responsible for offshore renewable energy development in Federal waters and anticipates future development on the OCS from three general sources: offshore wind, ocean wave, and ocean current energy.

Atlantic Sand Assessment Project — To help coastal communities recover from Hurricane Sandy, promote resilient coastal systems, and help build a national offshore sand inventory, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) sponsored offshore surveys to identify new sources of sand in federal waters from Miami, Florida to Massachusetts in 2015 and several site specific surveys in 2016 and 2017.

S51 Singapore Exchange — April 18, 2016 A subsidiary of the Singaporean marine and offshore engineering company has been implicated in a bribery scandal, to win the orders for deep - water rigs worth US$ 800 million, involving the Brazilian state - owned shipbuilder Sete Brasil and the state - owned oil company Petrobras.

Bringing the Seattle - based company closer to the nation's seat of power could be a competitive advantage for Amazon, with growing calls to regulate tech monopolies, billions of dollars in untaxed offshore stockpiles at stake and the habit some tech companies have of getting into hot water for operating on the fringes of state and federal rules.

Proposed Lease Sale 250 includes 14,375 unleased blocks, located from 3 to 230 mi offshore, in the Gulf's Western, Central and Eastern planning areas in water depths ranging from 9 to more than 11,115 ft (three to 3,400 m).

The boat, now about a hundred yards offshore, had six inches of water in the bilge, which became seven, then eight, and she sailed a little sluggishly, I thought.

I have a suspicious feeling that the offshore - drilling issue isn't exactly going to overwhelm the electorate, despite widespread (but shallow) support, but the Republicans involved in #dontgo seem to have taken to it like a dying man in the desert to water.

With the discovery of larger commercial quantities of oil and gas in deep water offshore Ghana, It became necessary for the bill to passed as the new phase of oil exploration has comes with new challenges with actual development, production and utilisation of its oil and gas resources.

Cuomo announced a ban against offshore drilling and exploration with the «Save Our Waters» bill, which prohibits the leasing of lands, including underwater lands, for offshore drilling and exploration in New York state waters.

New York Assemblyman Steve Englebright (D - Setauket) has also introduced a preliminary measure, NY A9819 (17R), to bar any offshore drilling or related activity in state waters.

The Cuomo administration plan also makes clear that while offshore wind representing 2,400 megawatts and hundreds of turbines will be in the waters south of Long Island, none is expected to be visible from shore.

The state - owned CNPC had begun exploring new offshore fields in Libyan waters before the war erupted, and both Sinopec group and CNOOC had engineering projects.

«At a point in time, the managers on - board detected that it was leaking and that water was entering the ferry so they quickly had to transfer all the passengers on - board onto another boat to take them offshore safely.

The Deepwater Wind offshore wind turbine project and water quality protection — in particular, the candidates» differing positions in regard to programs that will result in the phase - out of nonfunctioning septic systems — were also among the topics at the debate.

The United States Navy is planning a new round of sonar and weapons testing and training exercises in its Atlantic Training and Testing Study Area, which covers some 2.6 million nautical miles of inshore and offshore waters, extending from the...

Cuomo urged LIPA to approve an offshore wind farm 30 miles from Montauk and said the state would commit to other offshore projects that would place hundreds of turbines in federal waters off the Long Island coast by 2030.

Cuomo advanced the «Save Our Waters» bill to prohibit the leasing of lands, including underwater lands, for offshore drilling and exploration in New York state waters.

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 Trump administration is preparing to unveil as soon as this week an expansive offshore oil plan that would open the door to selling new drilling rights in Atlantic waters, according to people familiar with the plan.

Hermine twisted hundreds of miles offshore in the Atlantic Ocean today, creating large waves in some southern New England beach waters that lured in surfers despite the rough surf and rip currents that kept most beachgoers away on the last day of the long holiday weekend.

Bonga is Nigeria's first deep - water development in depths of more than 1,000 metres, and is located 120 km offshore Nigeria.

Buhari added that his administration had continued to equip the Nigerian Navy and the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency to fight pirates and sea robbers «who adversely impact offshore and inland fishing activities in our waters.»

CLEAN ENERGY: More offshore wind energy projects in New York waters.

In the paper, the authors acknowledge that offshore groundwater «is not the answer to global water crises, but it has a strategic value that should be acknowledged so that it can be weighed against other options in long - term strategies.&raquIn the paper, the authors acknowledge that offshore groundwater «is not the answer to global water crises, but it has a strategic value that should be acknowledged so that it can be weighed against other options in long - term strategies.&raquin long - term strategies.»

In a review article recently published online in the journal Nature, researchers arrived at a new estimate for total usable global offshore groundwater: 500,000 cubic kilometers — a quantity 100 times greater than the amount of water extracted from land aquifers since 1900, the study stateIn a review article recently published online in the journal Nature, researchers arrived at a new estimate for total usable global offshore groundwater: 500,000 cubic kilometers — a quantity 100 times greater than the amount of water extracted from land aquifers since 1900, the study statein the journal Nature, researchers arrived at a new estimate for total usable global offshore groundwater: 500,000 cubic kilometers — a quantity 100 times greater than the amount of water extracted from land aquifers since 1900, the study states.

It will be the first oil - exploration programme to run in US Arctic waters since 2000, and could mark the start of the first offshore commercial drilling in the American north, although it would take another decade to establish production wells.

Led by Ken Buesseler, a senior scientist and marine chemist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), the team found that a small fraction of contaminated seafloor sediments off Fukushima are moved offshore by typhoons that resuspend radioactive particles in the water, which then travel laterally with southeasterly currents into the Pacific Ocean.

Because of unprecedented hurricane - related rainfall in southeastern Texas last week, the Gulf of Mexico and its bountiful offshore ecosystems are contending with the record - setting pulse of freshwater — a volume of water exceeding the entire Chesapeake Bay — that surged off the land, sweeping along sediment, nutrients, and pollutants.

Shelf waters off the Pacific Northwest extend anywhere from 30 to 80 kilometers offshore and lie beneath the California Current, one of the richest marine ecosystems in the world.

Radiation from Japan's leaking Fukushima nuclear power plant has reached waters offshore Canada, researchers said today at the annual American Geophysical Union's Ocean Sciences Meeting in Honolulu.

Perry suspects that the numbers of blue crab larvae, which spawn in open waters 15 - 150 kilometers offshore, will drop because of their exposure.

Their eggs and larvae drifted for weeks offshore, bathed in oily water, before the juveniles at last took refuge in the shallow coastal estuaries, where they will mature.

Because of their dependence on both coastal and offshore waters during their early life - stages, we think that they may be more susceptible to fisheries than previously thought, and current protective measures in Mexico may unfortunately be insufficient.»

Measures including the current prohibition of commercial fishing from large vessels within 50 nautical miles from the coast have resulted in some protection, but the researchers say that this new information highlights that hammerhead sharks may still be in danger, due to their use of both coastal and offshore waters during early life stages.

By foraging for prey in deep pelagic waters often miles offshore, these mobile predators can act as vital «nutrient vectors» to shallow reefs.