Sentences with phrase «more drilling from»
But the knee jerk reactions we're seeing so far — more drilling from the right, more alternatives from the left — don't augur well.
https://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/ Not exact matches
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.
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.
The Perth - based junior announced this week that final assay results from a 45 - hole aircore / RC drill program at the Obelisk prospect within the Paterson mining region in the north of W.A, had extended the size of the system from 1 km to more than 4 km and it remains open in all directions.
Historically, one way producers wrung more cash from financiers was to pledge future output for cash payments to finance drilling.
Most of the acreage EQT will acquire from Rice is contiguous to its existing holdings, so it will be able to produce more efficiently through horizontal drilling, the company said.
In a statement, Zinke said opening the Gulf's outer continental shelf to development will aid drillers, under pressure from low prices, by providing more opportunities offshore.
It's also giving the fossil fuels sector whiplash from a White House whose energy policies have otherwise been very good to them, from starting to undo greenhouse gas regulations to opening more public land to mining and drilling and tax cuts.
Watch parties popped up in places far more varied than just craft breweries in Brooklyn, with fans gathering everywhere from Hermosa Beach in California to a library in Birmingham, Ala., to the Tulsa Drillers» minor league baseball stadium in Oklahoma.
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 %.
In Part II of this series, we drill down on some of the perceived and actual causes for the underdevelopment of the market in Canada and the lessons to be learned from other more developed markets.
That said, slumping global rig activity, especially in offshore drilling where NOW has a heavy customer concentration, more than overcame the boost the company received from acquisitions.
The results reported are for only two holes completed on one horizon and are the first results from a program of more than 20 drill holes to be drilled at the historic Mountain View Mine property.
Arizona Mining Inc. [AZ - TSX] on Thursday March 15 announced more drilling results from a program that is focused on expansion of the Trench Vein System, Taylor Sulfide Zone and Taylor... Read more»
The stark drop in natural gas prices from an all - time high of more than $ 15 per 1,000 cubic feet in 2005 to near $ 4 today results from a range of factors including the global economic downturn, competitive coal prices, unusually warm winters, the improvement of hydraulic fracturing («fracking») drilling techniques, and the production of natural gas as a byproduct when drillers frack for petroleum.
Shares of Garibaldi Resources Corp. [GGI - TSXV, GGIFF - OTC] retreated Monday December 11 as investors continued to assess drilling results from its 100 % - owned E&L Project at the Nickel Mountain property near Eskay... Read more»
Certain innovations — like expanding the number of wells drilled from a single pad — have made it possible to get more while spending less.
Arizona Mining Inc. [AZ - TSX] reported the results of three exploration drill holes from its current program on the Taylor zinc - lead - silver sulfide deposit located on its 100 % - owned Hermosa Project in Santa... Read more»
«Greenhouse gas emissions are going to go through the roof with a project of this kind,» said Wilderness Committee National Campaign Director Joe Foy «From escaped methane at the drill sites to the massive carbon emissions required to cool the gas, to more escaped methane on the long trip across the ocean to Asia and then the emissions from burning the From escaped methane at the drill sites to the massive carbon emissions required to cool the gas, to more escaped methane on the long trip across the ocean to Asia and then the emissions from burning the from burning the gas.
Nevsun Resources Ltd. [NSU - TSX, NYSE AMERICAN] on Tuesday March 27 announced impressive new assay results from the recently completed $ 20 million exploration drilling program on the Lower Zone at the... Read more»
If I try to configure the smoker similar to a Weber grill (drilling some holes on top and rigging up a slide mechanism to regulate release of air), will that help create a chimney draw to generate more heat from the charcoal?
To take the left side out of play, Singh practices getting his club face open at the top with a simple drill that forces him to swing more from the outside in, producing a soft fade.
If you drilled me down, I'd probably say fantasy, but in reality I read from every genre and literary / nonfiction so just the generic «I like to read» is probably more accurate than trying to get specific.
Not sure how many times you saw but Costa made more than one clearance from his penalty area and he has drilled defensive tracking back into the likes of Hazard and Willian.
You'll see more interviews from kids there, but you'll also get testing results and see them run drills against air.
No doubt Desai and Rao will have drilled it into interim manager Kean that Blackburn must start playing the standard of football they demand, so basically more passing and more technical qualities are to seen in Blackburn performances from now.
Learn more about the Save Our Waters bill, which will protect NY from offshore drilling.
Unlike free web sources, Inspec's indexing takes into account everything from chemical substance to numerical data, making searches far more precise and allowing researchers to drill down and retrieve specific information far quicker than previously possible.
«The economic potential from the Marcellus Shale could provide a badly needed boost to the economy of the Southern Tier and even many environmentalists agree we want to produce more domestic natural gas that reduces the need for environmentally damaging fuel sources such as coal,» his campaign statement said, while adding, «Existing watersheds are sacrosanct, and Andrew Cuomo would not support any drilling that would threaten the state's major sources of drinking water.»
The plan to drill fire suppression wells would not harm the local ecosystem, environmental groups said, though they added that conducting more «controlled burns» more often would help prevent future fires from getting out of control.
The State is considering allowing private companies to begin drilling for natural gas in upstate New York, while the City is shelling out more than $ 630 million between now and 2017 on «filtration avoidance» by protecting the Cat / Del watershed, where 90 % of our water comes from.
The blunt - spoken civil engineer has spent more than a half - century investigating high - profile engineering failures, from the space shuttle Columbia's horrific end to the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil - drilling rig in the Gulf.
Bringing up «los 33» from the depths of the copper and gold mine required breadth and depth of drilling more ambitious than in any mining rescue ever before attempted.
The number of new natural gas wells drilled each year in the United States has skyrocketed, from 17,500 in 2000 to a peak of more than 33,000 in 2008.
New sediment cores from an Antarctic research drilling program suggest that the southernmost continent has had a more dynamic history than previously suspected
More than a decade ago, the European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA) drilled the oldest existing core, which contains 800,000 - year - old ice, from an ice dome in East Antarctica known as Dome C.
Curiosity is now long gone from Yellowknife Bay, off to new drilling sites on the route to Mount Sharp where more dating can be done.
They obtained it by drilling the oldest ice core ever, almost two miles into a godforsaken spot called Dome C — 600 miles inland from the Antarctic coast and a little more than 1,000 miles from the South Pole.
Earthquakes caused by human activities, such as injecting pressurized wastewater from drilling back into the ground, have become almost 10 times more common than they were 20 years ago.
One Dartmouth scientist, epidemiologist Margaret Karagas, had already found that babies whose mothers relied on water from wells drilled in New Hampshire's arsenic - rich bedrock — with contamination measured at levels as high as 1 ppm (1,000 ppb)-- were disproportionately likely to have low birth weight and might also be more vulnerable to childhood infections.
Surprise find The team's actual mission was to survey ocean currents near the Ross Ice Shelf, a slab of ice extending more than 600 miles (970 kilometers) northward from the grounding zone of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet into the Ross Sea, to model the behavior of a drill string, a length of pipe extending to the seafloor which delivers drilling fluids and retrieves sediment samples.
Drilling techniques that enable BP to extract between five and seven times more oil or gas from a single well, this week earned two BP engineers the 1992 MacRobert Award, Britain's top engineering prize.
In the 1990s, new drilling technology developed in Texas made recovering gas from shale far more efficient.
These were drilled from depths of more than three kilometres below sea level off the coast of Antarctica.
Using records from more than 1.1 million births across Pennsylvania from 2004 to 2013, the researchers compared infants born to mothers living near a drilling site to those living farther away from a site, before and after fracking began at that site.
This will enable researchers to gather more accurate information from the analysis of holes drilled progressively down from the surface of a sample.
The engineer found a curious correlation — but it was with well 14 - 2, which was 1,000 feet away from 24 - 2 and had been drilled in 1980, more than 23 years before EnCana bought the operations in that area.
In a letter being delivered to the White House on Thursday, nearly 400 scientists from more than a dozen countries are urging President Obama to stop future oil and gas drilling in the Arctic Ocean because of the significant environmental and climate risks associated with further fossil fuels exploration there.
We definitely do NOT need more oil to be drilled from the ground to feed yet another soon - to - fade trend.