Sentences with phrase «offshore gulf waters»

The country had initially set June 21 as the date to open bids for 11 new blocks, located in border areas with Iran and Kuwait, and in offshore Gulf waters.

Not exact matches

Proposed Lease Sale 250 includes 14,375 unleased blocks, located from 3 to 230 mi offshore, in the Gulf's Western, Central and Eastern planning areas in water depths ranging from 9 to more than 11,115 ft (three to 3,400 m).

The Gulf of Mexico may be open for business and eager to attract tourists, but it's still unclear whether or not marine and coastal ecosystems there are healthy two years after BP's offshore drilling rig exploded 40 miles off the Louisiana coast, eventually releasing 205.8 million gallons of oil into the water column.

Because of unprecedented hurricane - related rainfall in southeastern Texas last week, the Gulf of Mexico and its bountiful offshore ecosystems are contending with the record - setting pulse of freshwater — a volume of water exceeding the entire Chesapeake Bay — that surged off the land, sweeping along sediment, nutrients, and pollutants.

The flow of fresh water into the Gulf of Mexico has keep the slick offshore, scientists believe.

While pundits and regulators issue encomiums to safety, the most noticeable shifts in the «post BP» oil industry are a fat discount on rental rates for offshore platforms no longer needed in the Gulf and the exodus of idled rigs heading to other waters.

Obama will visit the Gulf again on May 28 and ordered today an extension of a moratorium on new offshore drilling in all U.S. waters until the end of the year as well as cancelled planned lease sales.

It operates offshore in the shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico and in the onshore Gulf Coast region of the United States.

Males feed near the eastern Aleutian Islands and in the Gulf of Alaska, and females feed further south, in the offshore waters of Washington and Oregon.

Though only 40 miles or so offshore, the eyewall (the engine that drives the rest of the machine) is still over very warm Gulf water.

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This storm's tropical nature, in combination with record - warm water temperatures just offshore in the Gulf of Mexico, are creating a nearly perfect environment for extremely heavy rain and record flooding in one of the wettest places in the country.

Hoping to use oil as a bargaining chip to win votes for climate legislation in Congress, Obama unveiled an aggressive push for new offshore drilling in the Arctic, the Southeastern seaboard and new waters in the Gulf, closer to Florida than ever before.

A warm band of relatively constant temperature (18 - 22 °C) and salinity (36.0 - 36.2 psu) is observed near the bottom year - round just inshore of the shelf break, bounded by seasonally variable waters on the inshore side, and by fluctuating waters subject to cool - water upwelling events and warm Gulf Stream intrusions on the offshore side.