Sentences with phrase «major oil discoveries»
Proponents say recent major oil discoveries and successfully executed projects on nearby state lands prove there is both demand and the know - how to drill in the Arctic.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/ Not exact matches
The second major development is the discovery of oil in Turkana.
2007 June - Major off - shore oil discovery announced.
The discovery, the product of a multiyear effort to provide a high - quality full genome map of the oil palm plant and to scour the sequence for genes of importance to both science and industry, has major implications for agriculture and the environment.
«The discovery of Shell indicates a clear path toward more intensive use of already planted lands, and thus should lessen pressures to expand the land area devoted to oil palm, notably onto endangered rainforest land — a major concern for the environment and a rallying point for activists in recent years,» says Robert A. Martienssen, Ph.D., scientific co-founder of Orion Genomics, who is also a professor of plant genetics at CSHL.
Update 5-14-12, TS: Whales were among the major beneficiaries of oil's discovery.
I am too lazy to search for the source information, but I recall that discovery of a major shale gas / oil basin in central CA was announced recently by the USGS.