Sentences with phrase «of oil drilling»

He owns a number of oil drilling operations and oil wells in Texas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma.

As 2nd Shift Maintenance Lead, supervised up to 10 maintenance personnel at one time performing corrective and preventative maintenance on all systems and machines used in the manufacture of oil drilling equipment.

Not only can earthquakes have an impact far beyond major fault lines, some areas of the country — notably, parts of Oklahoma — are experiencing more seismic activity as a result of oil drilling efforts.

The Defenders of Wildlife suit targets the MMS» «continued lax oversight of oil drilling operations, including its failure to require a thorough examination of oil risks from exploratory drilling operations like the Deepwater Horizon.»

Both target the Mineral Management Service's permitting of oil drilling operations without environmental review.

He has also called for a massive expansion of oil drilling in the United States, apparently in an effort to defuse criticism from those who argue speciously that «drill, baby, drill» is the answer to our growing dependence on foreign oil.

I totally agree and because of oil drilling more environmental disasters have occurred that have destroyed delicate ecosystems that hurt everyone's health, speed climate change and cause animals and sea critters to extinction.

Others challenge government authorizations of fossil fuel development, such as a claim against the Norwegian government's approval of oil drilling and a South African NGO's recent successful challenge to the approval of a coal - fired power station.

Manari Ushigua, President of Sápara Nation, asked for LDF's support of his community's fight against rapid expansion of oil drilling across the tribe's territory in the Ecuadorian Amazon.

First we have warmers gluing themselves to banks, then we get Greenpeace trying a hostile takeover of an oil drilling rig off the coast of Greenland and now we have a greentard gone mad taking over the Discovery Channel building.

[3](Smith also sits on Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett's Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission that considers the impact of oil drilling through the practice known as «fracking.»

I hope you'll read «Applying Creativity to a Byproduct of Oil Drilling in North Dakota,» a valuable Clifford Krauss feature on baby steps taken by the oil and gas industry to stanch the wasteful, polluting flaring of natural gas from the country's booming Bakken oil fields in North Dakota.

Not only can earthquakes have an impact far beyond major fault lines, some areas of the country — notably, parts of Oklahoma — are experiencing more seismic activity as a result of oil drilling efforts.

Other than having seen oil rigs in water a few places in the world, I don't have the prior knowledge about any kind of oil drilling to understand the text.

«The magnitude of oil drilling in North Dakota is overwhelming,» Vengosh said.

@toxictown: you're wrong there... those pesky trees and wetlands that get in the way of oil drilling represent the «evil» in nature Just ask Santorum

Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck, and a whole bunch of oil drillers head out to space to save the world from an oncoming asteroid.

(Oh, and if we restrict the exporting of oil drilled in ANWR or the Gulf, thereby allowing us to stick with our delirious estimate of 7 % delivery from this hellhole, such a move could easily be classified as «protectionist»... and ask Newt and his followers if they're willing to cross that line)

Of course the jobs they are «saving» are those of oil drillers and those who blow up mountains in West Virginia to get at the coal, and squelching jobs for solar rooftop installers and wind developers.

Not exact matches

Scientists have tied the quakes to the injection of saltwater, a normal byproduct of oil and gas drilling, into deep disposal wells and underground caverns.

Transporting sand, drilling pipe, and crude oil furnished only 4.5 % of UP's volumes at the peak in 2014.

There have been a number of high - profile derailments of trains — including one by UP — carrying shale oil, much of which is produced in new drilling areas without established pipeline networks and must be moved by rail.

The higher the oil price the Saudis (or OPEC) target and possibly reach, the more areas in the U.S. would be profitable to drill and add to the global oil supply, potentially wiping out the effect of the cuts and depressing oil prices again.

When the company auctions that oilfield drill, for example, the goal is for its pricing model to forecast demand in the near future based on different factors, such as the price of oil, leaving Ritchie Bros. less vulnerable to market surprises.

The detail of a driller's hands is from a story on oil operations in Union County, Kentucky.

In April, the OGS said most of the state's recent earthquakes were caused by the injection of wastewater from oil and natural gas drilling operations Earth, which has become increasingly common in recent years.

As fracking became commercially viable, oil and gas drilling companies entered communities with shale gas resources, which can have a number of local effects.

During oil's deep decline, Schlumberger offered to drill in oilfields that were on hiatus in exchange for a share of future production, a move that was «very controversial» and has yet to pay off, says Colin Davies, an analyst at Bernstein.

The time is ripe for anyone with new ideas on some facet of oil and gas exploration, drilling or production that could cut costs, says Yager.

Oil giants like Shell (rdsa), Exxon Mobil, and BP (mro) do plenty of exploration and drilling.

That plan was nowhere near as broad in scope as the new Trump oil drilling proposal, which would make available drilling rights in more than 90 % of the continental shelf.

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.

The Trump offshore drilling plan would let oil suppliers drill in protected areas of the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans — places where governors, attorneys general and lawmakers along the East and West Coasts oppose offshore drilling.

OPEC wants to talk to rival shale drillers to learn lessons of oil glut Saudis and US, seen as rivals, are actually growing together: Aramco CEO Saudi Aramco looking to Google parent Alphabet to build tech hub

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 five - year program, launched by the federal government in early January, proposes to make over 90 percent of the total U.S. offshore acreage available to oil and gas drilling.

High school graduates can work as on - shore oil and gas well drillers or well servicers once they complete three to months of formal on - the - job training.

The cap: Under the Canada Oil and Gas Operations Act, the company that gained approval for offshore drilling work is liable in the event of a blowout.

U.S. drillers added five oil rigs looking for new production in the week to April 27, according to energy services firm Baker Hughes, bringing the total count to a March 2015 high of 825.

Unlike Alberta, where major oil and gas firms are based right in Calgary, the managers of the Colorado drilling companies he approached all said that their Houston - based head offices called the shots.

More than 90 % of the continental shelf would be available for drilling rights and only one out of 26 planning areas across the Pacific, Atlantic, and Arctic Oceans and the Gulf of Mexico would be entirely off limits to oil drilling under the Trump Administration's plan.

Energy companies frequently «flare» or burn off vast supplies of methane at drilling sites because it earns less money than oil.

The aggressive exploration program of recently listed Strike Oil is on track with the company set to drill three wells in the Carnarvon basin this month.

For oil and gas companies that want to install drilling and pumping infrastructure there, continuous monitoring of conditions above, below and at the surface of the water will be integral, and right now drones are the only feasibly deployable technology that can collect and relay all that data in a cost - effective manner.

Oil majors and large independent drillers need to shore up their asset portfolios after several years of underinvestment during a price slump, analysts say.

After a period of prolonged low oil prices, many offshore drillers are focusing on tying new wells in the Gulf of Mexico to existing infrastructure, rather than investing billions in new offshore platforms, he said.

The Trump administration announced Thursday a draft proposal to offer offshore blocks to oil and gas drillers in almost all of the U.S. outer continental shelf.

«There would be some modest gain to oil and gas companies, but realistically, they already have tons of places to drill,» he notes.

Oklahoma was shaken late Wednesday night by two of the strongest earthquakes to hit the state in recent years, the latest in a series of temblors that many researchers believe are caused by the burial of wastes from oil and gas drilling in the state.