Sentences with phrase «needed for oil drilling»

A large amount of water is needed for oil drilling and site development, but water resources are much more limited in the 1002 Area, compared to areas to the west at Prudhoe Bay and the National Petroleum Reserve - Alaska.

Not exact matches

The fall in global commodity prices has also hurt the company: Cheaper oil, for one, means that offshore drillers have less need for General Cable's heavy - duty products.

Lower oil prices have lead to decreased rig counts and less need for drilling materials.

UNP transports the materials needed to drill for shale oil and then transports the oil back.

I am in favor of drilling in Alaska and everywhere else until the need for oil is no longer.

Since the three main Westminster political parties all endorse the conclusions of Sir Ian Wood's recent review on how to maximise the economic recovery of oil and gas from the UK Continental Shelf (Search for UKCS Maximising Recovery Review Final Report, here), and its tacit underlying fiscal premises (namely that there is a need for a simplified fiscal regime to incentivise investment and drilling activity, as well as to ease the burden upon the new regulator of the upstream sector), it does not take the gift of prophecy to appreciate that the ultimate outcome of this subsequent review on the shape of the UK fiscal regime seems foreordained; namely, a return to the situation that prevailed before the introduction of SC, whereby the only levy on income from oil and gas fields is to be Corporation Income Tax at the standard rate levied on the likes of Starbucks and Amazon.

Once the tax bill passes with this important language in it, Trump needs to sign 75 year drilling leases with oil companies for the Democrats can't undo this in the future.

For example, understanding these effects can be essential to figuring out how much oil is needed to keep a gear train from running dry, or how much drilling «mud» is needed to keep an oil rig working smoothly.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today directed the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEM) to issue new suspensions of deepwater drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), saying a pause is needed to ensure that oil and gas companies first implement adequate safety measures to reduce the risks associated with deepwater drilling operations and are prepared for blowouts and oil spills.

Do you ever wonder if we are just shifting one problem for the next, the way energy needs were shifted from hunting whales to drilling for oil?

The story takes place in a rural New England town, where oil company workers Steve and Sue (Damon and McDormand) are trying to secure the leases needed to drill for natural gas.

This oil they want to drill for represents at most 2 years of America's oil needs, will go on the international oil market when and if it is finally extracted, and so only benefit oil companies, and, as these environmental impact statements clearly state, has a 50 - 50 chance of causing spills harmful to the environment.

2) At least ten years will pass before a tiny addition of oil might become available to us through offshore drilling; the crisis can not wait ten years for very negligible increases in supplies of the commodity we need to wean ourselves from.

In Brazil, the immediate remedies for this very real need are seen in the massive number of unharnessed rivers of the Amazon basin and in oil deposits in the jungles of Western Amazônia (not to mention the vast deposits of deep - drilled oil located off - shore along the coast of Rio de Janeiro which is another story).

The Trump Administration's plans for a dramatic and reckless increase in oil and gas drilling in the Western Arctic would threaten core wildlife values and accelerate the impacts of global climate change, at a time when a transition to clean energy alternatives is urgently needed.

Now that the US has greatly increased sources of oil and natural gas thanks to drilling using new technology (thus obviating the need for depending on the Middle East), renewable energy advocates have fallen back on their claims that fossil fuel use must be reduced to avoid catastrophic anthropogenic global warming.

My point is that to reduce the need for drilling for oil, we must focus our efforts on making our current primary form of transportation, the internal combustion engine, more efficient and less polluting.

• Support for energy innovation today comes from those concerned about the high (and rising) economic costs, not to mention the foreign entanglements created by America's dependence on oil; the need for greater energy access in poor countries; diseases and deaths caused by air pollution, oil and gas drilling, and coal mining and waste; and the potential for America to manufacture and export new energy technologies at a profit.

HEMP is a good answer — no wars were fought for hemp and cooking oil, no harmful pipelines were built and leaked for that oil, no ocean life was ruined due to offshore drilling, no one's health was effected for that vegetable oil, the air is cleaner with that oil due to no green house gases released — this oil can be recycled from our food — hemp can replace fibers, pulp, plastics and it still makes food and grows in under 3 months (and it does not need much water, no fertilizer and cleans the air!!

With nuclear energy there is no need to mine and burn coal, drill for oil and gas, or dam wild rivers for electricity — a fact widely recognized by scientists, politicians, and informed members of the public (including Brower's boss and colleagues at the Sierra Club) in the 1960s.