Sentences with phrase «of oil discovery»

Burtynsky has explored the theme of oil for more than a decade, from the Alberta oil sands to Baku, Azerbaijan, one of the earliest sites of oil discovery.

«If we, in the NPP, were in power these 5 years of the oil discovery, the face of the Western Region, and, indeed, the face of Ghana would have changed dramatically.

The «peak oil» school, which has argued that we have passed the peak of oil discovery and are now in permanent decline, has been proved wrong.

In contrast, Newfoundland and Labrador, a «have not» province from the start, became a «have» province because of the oil discoveries on the Grand Banks (Hibernia).

Not exact matches

Statoil says it is evaluating a new discovery of high - quality oil about 500 kilometres northeast of St. John's, N.L..

New pipelines in Siberia and Central Asia, as well as the discovery of shale oil in China, mean that Asian refineries will have access to closer sources of crude, he says.

In developing the National OCS Program, which has also been known as a Five Year Program, the Secretary is required to achieve an appropriate balance among the potential for environmental impacts, for discovery of oil and gas, and for adverse effects on the coastal zone.

A number of oil and gas discoveries have been made in recent years in the waters off the coast of that country, especially in a large basin called the Nam Con Son.

For deep water, the time frame from initial exploration discovery to production of oil ranges from 5 to 10 years.

HOUSTON, March 23, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)-- Apache Corporation (NYSE: APA)(Nasdaq: APA) today announced a significant oil discovery on Block 9 / 18a Area - W in the United Kingdom sector of the North Sea...

Mayan Energy, the AIM listed oil and gas company, has announced a new gas discovery at Stockdale field, in Wilson County, Texas, as part of its ongoing development activities at the Morris 1 well.

However, production is expected to improve in the second half of 2017 primarily due to growth from the company's new oil and gas discovery (Alpine High) in the Permian Basin.

Shares of SDX Energy Inc. [SDX - TSXV, AIM] advanced Thursday April 12 after the North Africa - focused oil and gas company said a gas discovery has been made at its Ibn Yunus - IX... Read more»

The energy sector has been the strongest performer, experiencing gains of 11 per cent due to favourable developments regarding increased sales of LNG to the US and the discovery of new oil fields.

It was technological change, above all the discovery of how to use the energy concentrated in coal and oil, that led to the Industrial Revolution and subsequent boom.

Like a petroleum discovery, the key to spice quality is the percentage of oil in it.

Hanukkah includes the custom of eating foods fried or baked in oil, as the original miracle of the Hanukkah menorah involved the discovery of a small flask of pure olive oil.

According to some sources, the Carib and Arawak Indians used pepper juice for seasoning, and after the «discovery» of chile peppers by Europeans, slave ship captains combined pepper juice with palm oil, flour, and water to make a «slabber sauce» that was served over ground beans to the slaves aboard ship.

Hon. Kofi Buah, who is also the current ranking member on the Energy and Mines committe and Member of Parliament for Ellembele, in an interview with journalists on Thursday said: «President John Mahama led Cabinet into deciding to name the third FPSO after the ex-President, in recognition of the role that He played leading up to the 2007 discovery of oil in commercial quantities.»

As far back as 2015, the primate had prophesied that discovery of crude oil in Lagos and it is published on page 99 of the WTN 2014/15 edition.

Corruption in the Ghanaian oil and gas industries has been a concern since the discovery of the Jubilee oil field in 2007.

The second major development is the discovery of oil in Turkana.

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.

Uganda recently announced the discovery of viable oil reserves in the northern part of the country, which is estimated to contain over 2.5 billion barrels of oil.

The 2012 vice presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has stated that Ghana's excessive borrowing has put the country's oil discovery in danger.

It is seeking investment to develop its «Sea Lion» discovery further, with an estimated 350 million barrels of crude oil at stake.

Policies that develop the petrochemical industry in Nzema to offer direct employment or ancillary services for the unemployed residents to earn descent salaries to meet the high cost of living the oil discovery has brought in its wake; policies that improve education facilities in Nzema here and provide scholarships for needy students to expand their knowledge base and acquire relevant competencies for employment into the oil sector; policies that offer apprenticeship and vocational training for the youth who are unable to acquire formal education so that they are also not left out of employment; policies that develop infrastructures in Nzema are what we need.

Concern about the growing support for the SNP's proposals for an independent Scottish state — boosted by the discovery of North Sea oil in 1970 — led Harold Wilson's government to set in motion the devolution referendum, which took place, and failed, in 1979.

The governor, who broke down in tears over the ongoing events in the country, said Nigeria could be heading for doom because of the latest oil discoveries by nations that once depended on Nigeria's oil and the fall in oil price.

A combination of the new fiscal regime and GNPC's promotional activities yielded results, as a number of oil exploration companies invested in Ghana, which led to the discovery in 2007 of the Jubilee Fields, followed by a quick succession of other discoveries, including the TEN fields.»

Following months of exploration activities, Borno State has joined the club of states producing oil in the country with the discovery of crude oil in the...

Dr. Bawumia said the NDC government in spite of the high borrowing and discovery of oil, can not sustain the social intervention programmes the NPP initiated under the erstwhile President John Kufour.

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode has declared that Lagos has officially joined the League of Oil Producing States in Nigeria following the discovery of crude oil by Tunde Folawiyo Petroleum Company Limited in Badagry, LagOil Producing States in Nigeria following the discovery of crude oil by Tunde Folawiyo Petroleum Company Limited in Badagry, Lagoil by Tunde Folawiyo Petroleum Company Limited in Badagry, Lagos.

As an example, Bernier refers to a recent patented gene discovery that helps increase yield of canola oil by 10 %.

Innovative prospecting techniques like three - dimensional sonar, which emits sound waves from multiple angles, help discovery crews see through opaque and shifting layers of geological salt to pinpoint oil hidden four miles or more beneath the Gulf of Mexico and off the Atlantic coasts of South America and Africa.

But now, a team of researchers in the University of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering say their discovery of a type of fire tornado they call a «blue whirl» could lead to beneficial new approaches for reducing carbon emissions and improving oil spill cleanup.

Beyond improvements to fuel efficiency and oil spill remediation, there are currently few easy methods to generate a stable vortex in the lab, so the team hopes their discovery of the «blue swirl» can serve as a natural research platform for the future study of vortices and vortex breakdown in fluid mechanics.

In September Chevron announced the discovery of a field containing up to 15 billion barrels of oil beneath the Gulf of Mexico, touting it as «a platform for growth for years to come.»

«Our discovery about the ROC40 protein suggests that it may be increasing the expression of genes involved in the synthesis of oil in microalgae,» Rathinasabapathi said.

Researchers from the University of Houston have reported the discovery of a nanotechnology - based solution that could address both issues — achieving 15 percent tertiary oil recovery at low cost, without the large volume of chemicals used in most commercial fluids.

The discovery probably explains why the petroleum industry has not been able to achieve greater efficiencies in the electrostatic removal of water from crude oil, Ristenpart says, a process that has been used for nearly a century, though he adds that the process is extremely difficult to observe because of the opaqueness of the oil.

The discovery could help marine workers who have to protect underwater cables and oil rigs from the threat of landslides.

When we got to the discovery of oil in Pennsylvania, I stopped him.

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.

«The discovery that regulation of the Shell gene will enable breeders to boost palm oil yields by nearly one - third is excellent news for the rainforest and its champions worldwide,» says Datuk Dr. Choo Yuen May, the Director General of the Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB), an agency of the Malaysian federal governmeoil yields by nearly one - third is excellent news for the rainforest and its champions worldwide,» says Datuk Dr. Choo Yuen May, the Director General of the Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB), an agency of the Malaysian federal governmeOil Board (MPOB), an agency of the Malaysian federal government.

The Court called the scientist's discovery of the bacteria with improved capacity for degrading crude oil, «not nature's handiwork, but his own.»

The fish have become much more robust by then, and this part of the NCS is also the location of promising recent oil discoveries such as Skrugard.

In 1922 one of the most dramatic oil discoveries in history took place here.

«For example, this discovery gives us an easier way to understand how an ecosystem is recovering after an oil spill,» said Jason Link, lead author of the study and NOAA Fisheries senior scientist for ecosystem management.