Sentences with phrase «offshore areas»

It means making tough decisions about opening new offshore areas for oil and gas development.

The newly opened offshore areas are estimated to have as much as 17 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.

Interestingly, oil and gas isn't the only industry set to potentially benefit from the opening of protected offshore areas.

The weather forecast for some of the further offshore areas doesn't look great for the next few days but we will get back out there and hope to have some workable periods.

An infrastructure like this also would be ideally suited to developing offshore areas for wind development, offering significant opportunities to share infrastructure.

And that in turn has opened up previously inaccessible offshore areas to oil and gas exploration and development.

He left that job to spend 5 years as a senior petroleum geologist for Exxon, hunting for oil and gas in offshore areas of southern California.

Strong wind resources exist in offshore areas of Queensland, but these areas abut the World Heritage - listed Great Barrier Reef.

«No president has ever rescinded a previous president's permanent withdrawal of offshore areas from oil and gas development,» the FOE said.

A few weeks ago I wrote about a TV ad which the McCain campaign was running which, in short, said that 1) drilling for oil in offshore areas which are currently off limits is the solution to reducing high gasoline costs in the United States, and 2) that Barack Obama is the sole reason these areas are off limits.

Additionally, it comes at a time when oil prices are on the rise, but stuck in a range that makes multibillion - dollar projects in new offshore areas unattractive for many drillers.

The plan includes the potential lease of acreage in federal offshore areas such as the Atlantic region.

On January 4, 2018, the United States Department of the Interior announced plans for the expansion of natural gas and oil drilling through the potential lease of acreage in federal offshore areas such as the Atlantic Region, which includes New York State.

In the first intensive exploration of California's offshore areas north of Bodega Head, a consortium of federal and state marine scientists used small submersibles and other innovative technologies to investigate, film and photograph marine life that has adapted to survive in offshore waters reaching 1,000 feet deep.

Indirect tax zone means Australia but does not include the external territories and certain offshore areas.

The weather is similar. Although both are within the hurricane belt, Nevis has more frequent hurricanes, due to where it is within the normal hurricane pattern. Nevis also is prone to regular earthquakes. Ambergris Caye is quite distant from a fault. We only get a little rattle once every ten years or so, emanating from the Honduras offshore area.

I wrote about that issue just this morning (I won't even try to include that link; it's the «Offshore (and ANWR) oil drilling, again» post, for those who care), and concluded that we will indeed drill in ANWR and those currently pristine offshore areas in time.

NOAA also uses airplanes to take aerial photographs from much higher in the sky, which captures images of entire coastlines and offshore areas at once.

This includes announcing a withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, repealing the Clean Power Plan, rolling back vehicle fuel economy standards, attempting to rescind rules on methane emissions from oil and gas production on federal lands, ending the moratorium on coal leasing on federal lands, and opening additional offshore areas to oil and gas leasing.

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.

Some of these are in offshore areas between PNG and Australia.

An ideal opportunity exists in the oil and gas exploration now going on in the Ceduna Sub-Basin offshore area of South Australia.

Victoria could develop wind power along its southern coastline and near offshore areas of the Bass Strait.

Even in the fledgling US offshore area, a maiden floating project, the 12MW Aqua Ventus, off Maine, is inching ahead.

The potential for future discoveries is highly concentrated in frontier provinces (such as in the Arctic or in deepwater offshore areas), or in a few lightly explored Middle East countries such as Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia.

To use my father's vernacular: The amount of oil contained in offshore areas which are current off limits means bubkiss when compared to overall U.S. oil demand.

That leaves Obama's March 31 opening of new offshore areas for oil and natural gas exploration and drilling.

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.

As a candidate, President - Elect Trump pledged to pursue an energy approach that would include «opening federal lands for oil and gas production, opening offshore areas, and revoking policies that are imposing unnecessary restrictions on innovative and new exploration technologies.»

By completing her biological cycle in both coastal and offshore areas of the central and southwestern Gulf of California, the researchers believe that the hammerhead was maximizing her foraging opportunities and continued growth.

A few weeks ago I wrote about a TV ad which the McCain campaign was running which, in short, said that 1) drilling for oil in offshore areas which are currently off limits is the solution to reducing high gasoline costs

This restructure, with luck, will see SCEE return to some of its historical success in the offshore areas.

According to him, exploring the inland basins will be beneficial to the nation, especially because the Niger Delta and offshore areas have witnessed exploration for too long.

Oxygen - deprived areas in the world's oceans usually found in deeper water are moving up to offshore areas and threatening coastal marine ecosystems by spurring the die - off of some species and overpopulation of others

«The large mature breeding animals occur in the offshore area around the Race Bank, in the proposed extraction area,» she says.

BAL could theoretically just lease some offshore areas from the government and farm the seaweed there.

Schaffer's Web site says he is also in favor of drilling in the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge and offshore areas.

For the past century, the offshore areas of coastal cities such as Goleta, Santa Monica, and Huntington Beach have been home to oil extraction sites.

And the oil that could be produced from offshore areas would have an effect, but it would be a small increment to the global market, and thus its price impact would be small.

These included some offshore areas that had previous protection and other zones which scientists say could be likely habitats, according to the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

I'm not going to address all of them, but some of the most significant would impact hydraulic fracturing, ozone standards, methane controls and the next five - year plan covering access to offshore areas.

A new NOAA dataset of wind forecasts could help the energy industry identify which offshore areas in the United States have the best potential for wind resource development.

In 10 to 15 years, the United States may be in need of oil if production from shale formations and from offshore areas in the Gulf of Mexico were to begin to decline.