Sentences with phrase «of offshore oil exploration»

Although the exact cause of the blowout remains unclear, activists have used the spill to bolster their argument that the risks of offshore oil exploration outweigh its benefits, and that the United States would be better off focused on promoting alternative energy sources.

EIA is disappointed in the administration's support of offshore oil exploration, and is concerned for the immediate and long - term consequences for belugas and other wildlife in the region.

IUCN has also learned that the Government of Belize is engaged in the formulation of an offshore oil exploration and exploitation policy that would be in line with its commitment to protect the OUV of the Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System.

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«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.

The oil - exploration rush in nearby Indonesia has been beneficial for Singapore, which now supplies much of the equipment used in offshore drilling.

Expanding offshore drilling April 28 In the same executive order, Trump ordered the Department of the Interior to create a new five - year schedule for leasing blocks of the U.S. outer continental shelf for oil and gas exploration.

#WITH a 28 per cent success rate in the exploration of the Timor Sea region, there is currently a strong industry focus on offshore and onshore oil and gas development.

The EEZ Act was enacted in 2013 to provide a regulatory framework to manage the environmental effects of offshore resource development such as oil exploration and seabed mining.

shale oil may be a bubble but countries like Libya Iraq Iran produce nothing compared to their potential / production capacity + there is always offshore exploration recently Morocco seems to be in the spot light not to mention the arctic sea / north pole especially Russia where a new Koweit is to be found and also south China sea Venezuela's tight oil if all the types of oil are included venezuela must be a heaven with a quarter of global oil reserves with +300 billion barrels more than 260 bbls of Saudi Arabia that can still produce more than 10/11 million barrel / day that it's procucing today.

The company is an oil and gas exploration and development company in the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico and offshore international areas.

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.

Today, due to the volume of shipping as well as offshore oil and gas drilling and exploration, the din underwater — where sounds can travel long distances — is constant.

I was encouraged by President Obama's calls for the construction of more nuclear power plants, as well as for increased offshore exploration of oil and natural gas, and the further development of clean coal technologies.

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.

«Today, cognitive undersea acoustics is a key wireless communication technology that can be used for a wide range of military, commercial, and scientific applications, including tactical surveillance, offshore exploration, monitoring of subsea machinery such as oil - rigs and pipelines, disaster prevention as well as the study of marine life,» said Stella N. Batalama, Ph.D., principal investigator and dean of FAU's College of Engineering and Computer Science, who is collaborating with Dimitris Pados, Ph.D., co-principal investigator, professor in FAU's Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and I - SENSE Fellow.

So - called roadless oil extraction, in which oil companies use offshore exploration and production methods and leave less of an imprint on the area being drilled, is a viable alternative, argue Swing and others associated with Scientists Concerned for Yasuni, a network of independent researchers that first came together in 2004 to stop a proposed road project inside the park.

Another subsidiary, PTT Exploration and Production Pcl, was involved in Australia's worst offshore drilling accident in 2009, when thousands of gallons of crude oil spewed into the sea after a damaged oil well blew up.

Resource and environmental economics; models of linked economic and ecological systems; fisheries and aquaculture; offshore oil and gas exploration and production; marine transportation; marine pollution.

«With oil and gas, 90 per cent of the data we use is seismic, especially offshore,» CSIRO's research group leader for energy exploration geosciences, Dr Ben Clennell, says.

The Arctic is in danger — it's warming at twice the rate of the rest of the Earth, and offshore oil and gas exploration are threatening its pristine natural habitats.

In a hearing this morning, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee is set to examine various issues related to offshore oil and gas exploration and to grill executives from BP, Halliburton and Transocean about the fatal and environmentally calamitous destruction of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig.

Over the last three years, we've opened millions of new acres for oil and gas exploration, and tonight, I'm directing my Administration to open more than 75 percent of our potential offshore oil and gas resources.

Obama's recent opening of new offshore areas for oil and gas exploration, the recent Gulf oil spill, and the approval of a wind farm offshore from Cape Cod, Mass., bring energy to the forefront once again, and motivate us to consider carefully where government policies are taking American citizens and the world.

It comes in three forms: 1) Direct grants of a scarce resource (waivers to SF, ownership to selected unions ala GM, etc.), 2) Subsidies and rebates to favored groups (ethanol, disaster assistance, etc.), and 3) Restriction / punishment of unfavored entities (ANWR, offshore oil exploration, CAFE standards, employers, etc..)

These threatened species also face the prospect of offshore drilling in the Arctic after the Obama Administration recently approved a number of plans to move forward on oil exploration.

Together, Shark Stewards, The International Marine Mammal Project and Earth Island Institute are gathering public support, comments and advocating to resist any changes in Sanctuary status and offshore oil exploration and development of the west coast.

We urge the BOEM and all reviewing agencies to carefully consider the overwhelming public support for protecting our coastal environment and the important economic benefits our Sanctuaries provide, and not allow any increased offshore oil exploration or production or decrease in protective status of our California Marine Sanctuaries.

Join Shark Stewards, The Marine mammal project and Earth Island Institute in a public support for coastal marine protection and stop the proposed opening of our offshore waters to oil exploration and production.

This extends to issuing permits for more than 500 offshore oil and gas exploration and development projects in the Gulf of Mexico.

Oil and gas leasing and exploration activities are intensifying not only in certain parts of the Reserve but also on adjacent offshore areas in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas.

By opening up the mid-Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico and north coast of Alaska to new offshore oil drilling and exploration, the Minerals Management Service not only places our environment at risk, it threatens the livelihoods of millions of Americans who rely on clean, healthy, oil - free oceans and beaches to support fishing, tourism and other industries.»

Oil and gas lease sales, royalties from mineral and energy production, Alaska's «Open for Business» initiative, renewable energy development, mineral extraction, the future of coal production from public lands, offshore renewable energy development, and oil and gas exploration and drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf were just some of the topics discussOil and gas lease sales, royalties from mineral and energy production, Alaska's «Open for Business» initiative, renewable energy development, mineral extraction, the future of coal production from public lands, offshore renewable energy development, and oil and gas exploration and drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf were just some of the topics discussoil and gas exploration and drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf were just some of the topics discussed.

Further, it may be held that the OCSLA only provides jurisdiction where the development of mineral resources is concerned, since it was originally passed to address the growth of offshore oil and gas exploration rather than renewable energy production.

This morning, Congressman Mark Sanford hosted a press conference where he clearly announced firm opposition to offshore drilling and exploration for oil and gas off the Atlantic coast, thus aligning with the sentiment of local coastal communities.

Alaska «s North Slope accounted for 25 percent of U.S. domestic oil and natural gas production in 1988, but production has plummeted because the U.S. government has largely prevented exploration for new resources in the state both onshore and offshore.

Our opportunity here isn't only about protecting the ocean waters of America, marine life, a favorite surf break, jobs or a given beach community; it's about demanding that our government utilize the best available science and data and listen to the massive outpouring of public opposition to destructive offshore oil and gas development, to shift the tides of energy development instead away from fossil fuels and toward renewables; it's about holding our President and federal agencies accountable for decisions they make about the management of the ocean; it's about protecting the ocean and every coastline from the atrocity and injustice of offshore drilling and exploration; it's about protecting clean water, air and beaches now and for the future; it's about protecting one another, and the Earth.

Over 500 activists peacefully demonstrated against the negative impacts of offshore exploration and exploitation, under discussion at the MCE Deepwater Development summit by representatives from big oil and gas companies including Total, Shell, BP, Exxon, and Repsol.

The greater increase would come from U.S. sources - specifically onshore and offshore oil, much of which currently is off - limits to exploration and development.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce filed a brief urging the U.S. Court of Appeals to reject a challenge to the federal offshore permitting process that would halt offshore oil and natural gas exploration in the Gulf of Mexico.

Confronted by chants of «Drill, baby, drill,» Senate and House Democrats, led by candidate Barack Obama, embraced offshore oil exploration, reversing nearly a quarter - century of opposition.

International New Zealand bans all new offshore oil exploration as part of «carbon - neutral future», The Guardian Britain urges Myanmar authorities to release jailed Reuters journalists, Reuters

The pipeline is by no means the only major source of potential legal work; many firms are also eyeing the Halifax Shipyard modernization, the construction of a major hydroelectric facility at Muskrat Falls in Labrador, and the billions being poured into offshore oil explorations (read more on this on the Back Page).

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