Sentences with phrase «of oil drilling operations»

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

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.

Not exact matches

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.

NE is an offshore drilling contractor for the oil and gas industry with operations all over the world including operations in the United States, Gulf of Mexico and Alaska, Mexico, Brazil, the North Sea, the Mediterranean, West Africa, the Middle East, India, Malaysia, and Australia.

PTSD sufferers in the battered upstream oil and gas industry will take little comfort to learn their economic future is in the hands of software written by programmers and traders who have never set foot on a drilling rig or production operation, nor put on a pair of coveralls or a hard hat.

Helmerich & Payne, Inc. is engaged in contract drilling of oil & gas wells for others & in the ownership, development & operation of commercial real estates.

That perhaps lends credence to critics» assertions that the petro is just a virtual barrel of oil, an attempt by the Maduro government to raise billions of dollars in foreign exchange in order to keep the government in operation without having to do the actual hard work of drilling for and shipping oil.

ALBANY, NY (07/17/2012)(readMedia)-- In response to a new report released by Earthworks» Oil & Gas Accountability Project - NYS DEC: Inadequate enforcement guarantees irresponsible oil and gas development (http://enforcement-ny.earthworksaction.org), which questions New York's ability to oversee the state's existing and proposed gas drilling operations - Citizens Campaign for the Environment, Environmental Advocates of New York, Catskill Mountainkeeper, Hudson Riverkeeper, Sierra Club - Atlantic Chapter, and Environment New York released the following statemeOil & Gas Accountability Project - NYS DEC: Inadequate enforcement guarantees irresponsible oil and gas development (http://enforcement-ny.earthworksaction.org), which questions New York's ability to oversee the state's existing and proposed gas drilling operations - Citizens Campaign for the Environment, Environmental Advocates of New York, Catskill Mountainkeeper, Hudson Riverkeeper, Sierra Club - Atlantic Chapter, and Environment New York released the following statemeoil and gas development (http://enforcement-ny.earthworksaction.org), which questions New York's ability to oversee the state's existing and proposed gas drilling operations - Citizens Campaign for the Environment, Environmental Advocates of New York, Catskill Mountainkeeper, Hudson Riverkeeper, Sierra Club - Atlantic Chapter, and Environment New York released the following statement:

The Center for Sustainable Shale Development (CSSD) has developed a set of 15 standards that oil and gas drillers can adopt in their operations (a PDF of the standards is here).

In short order, wastewater wells could be drilled in new locations, the falling price of oil could shut down certain operations, or regulators could change their policies in certain regions.

Then in 2008, a Society of Petroleum Engineers report warned that the hydraulic rams used in many BOPs to shut off oil flow may lack the capacity to cut through the high - strength drills used in deep - sea operations.

While oil and gas companies work to minimize the amount of methane emitted by their operations, almost no attention has been paid to wells that were drilled decades ago.

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.

«This form of graphene is extremely resistant to biofilm formation, which has promise for places like water - treatment plants, oil - drilling operations, hospitals and ocean applications like underwater pipes that are sensitive to fouling,» says Tour.

In this case, you'll make some metal chips in the drilling operation, and you'll want to make sure that you clean all of these chips from the oil pan before adding new oil and starting the vehicle.

Helmerich & Payne, Inc. is engaged in contract drilling of oil & gas wells for others & in the ownership, development & operation of commercial real estates.

Benefiting from increased drilling activity in the face of record oil prices, the company has seen its earnings from continuing operations gush from $ 0.04 per share in 2004 to $ 4.35 for fiscal - year 2007.

The boom from the first oil find was so spectacular that after the hundreds of wells already put in had begun to run dry, drillers attempted to expand their area of operations uncomfortably close to Santa Barbara.

Physical habitat damage from drilling and dredging operations, combined with possible impacts of oil and chemical spills on benthic prey communities also warrants concern.

More specifically, do your regional findings give a clue as to how much of what you see from energy sector is from drilling as opposed to other oil and gas operations?

The numerous technical and operational breakdowns that contributed to the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion and spill from the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico suggest the lack of a suitable approach for managing the inherent risks, uncertainties, and dangers associated with deepwater drilling operations and a failure to learn from previous «near misses.»

Alex again has potential for disruption, although probably more on clean - up operations than on Deepwater Horizon oil spill capturing and the drilling of relief wells.

I spent a part of my professional life integrating weather forecasts into offshore oil and gas operations (drilling, construction, operations).

Key state regulations include: Review and approval of permits; well design, location and spacing; drilling operations; water management and disposal; air emissions; wildlife impacts; surface disturbance; worker health and safety; and inspection and enforcement of day - to - day oil and gas operations.

At retirement, I was President of a sizable energy company that included a stable of 23 renewable energy plants, an oil and gas drilling and production subsidiary, a natural gas trading subsidiary and various other diverse operations including such unlikely endeavors as airliner leasing and even a large pistachio farm.

«There has been significant progress over the last few months in enhancing the safety of future drilling operations, and in addressing some of the weaknesses in spill containment and oil spill response,» said Director Bromwich.

With adequate notice, the drill rig safety crews can prepare towing operations to remove the floating chunks of ice, but this year they were overwhelmed and resorted to emergency measures to keep the massive bergs away from the oil and gas machinery.

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced in April that it is considering raising the royalty rate for oil and natural gas drilled on Federal lands — currently at 12.5 percent of drilling operations» production value.

He permitted it to rubber - stamp dangerous drilling operations by BP — a firm with the worst safety record of any oil company — with virtually no environmental safeguards, using industry - friendly regulations drafted during the Bush years.

Dirty energy lobbyists, including those of Chevron, could effectively use hypothetical arguments of TTIP illegality to chill government action on both sides of the Atlantic to curtail hydraulic «fracking» for natural gas, deny permits for liquefied natural gas export terminals, close coal - fired power plants, and prohibit new coal mining, oil drilling, and oil / gas pipeline operations, among others.

This comes on the heels of a report from the Department of Interior, which summarized a 60 - day investigation into Shell's 2012 Arctic Ocean drilling season and was highly critical of the oil giant's operations.

These oil drilling and refining operations cause long - term pollution to the air, land and water, which can impact your quality of life and the value of your property.

Notable examples include acting for accountants in long - running litigation arising out of a failed tax avoidance scheme; acting for the developer and manufacturer of an offshore drilling system following an accident in operation; representing one of the Defendants in Novoship v Mikhaylyuk & Others, concerning allegations of bribery and secret profits; appearing in a substantial LCIA arbitration about the theft of oil stocks in East Africa;, successfully representing a broker in litigation against a former client under a futures brokerage contract in Sucden v Fluxo - Cane [2010] 2 CLC 216; and The «Ekha» [2011] 1 All ER Comm 1077, long - running litigation in the Commercial Court and Court of Appeal about an offshore drilling contract.

Over the course of his career, Darin has worked on lease priority disputes, surface use agreements, farmout agreements, joint operating agreements, unit operations, royalty disputes, drilling contracts, joint interest accounting, NEPA compliance, and various other aspects of oil and gas operations in the Rockies, in addition to general commercial litigation.

Following the April 20 explosion off the coast of Louisiana that killed several oil rig workers, families of the deceased and some of the workers who survived the accident have filed wrongful death or personal injury lawsuits against companies involved in the offshore drilling operation.

Specialists also spearhead and coordinate building and operation of drills, oil derricks and other equipment used in the drilling process.

Assisted drilling team in the development planning and scheduling in the operation of oil and gas well drilling

My significant exposure to all aspects of oil well rig operations, along with related maintenance and air drilling execution successes, have equipped me with the critical, technical and creative abilities enabling me to thrive in the fast - paced environment at your company.

Tightens, loosens and monitors sections of pipe using hydraulic clamps during the oil drilling operation