Sentences with phrase «offshore gas wells»

While it works on land, it also focuses on hard - to - drill deep offshore gas wells.

Aggressive emergency expansion of generation which saw a fast track deployment of 850MW of power, and the commencement of utilization of significant offshore gas wells has given Ghana, once gain, the prospect of becoming a major exporter of power in the sub region.

Not exact matches

On Friday, Trump is expected to sign an order to review areas available for offshore oil and gas exploration, as well as rules governing offshore drilling.

The deal gets Shell into the liquified gas market, as well as the offshore oil fields of Brazil.

The stage - two project, announced on Saturday, will involve drilling new wells in the offshore Gorgon and Jansz - Io fields, as well as pipelines and other subsea equipment to connect the wells into the major gas gathering system located off the north - west of Barrow Island.

The offshore wells feed both the three - train, 15.6 million tonnes a year LNG production plant and a 300 terajoules a day domestic gas plant on the island that serves the WA market.

Genuinely opening the Gulf and other offshore petroleum reserves, and freeing up onshore natural gas deployment, would create 2.5 million jobs in exploration and development, as well as construction, steel, cement and other industries.

The project will involve gas wells and an underwater production system at the field about 300 km north of Darwin, an offshore production ship for condensates, and a pipeline to connect into the existing pipeline from Bayu - Undan to Darwin.

On September 30, the U.S. Department of the Interior issued new rules (pdf) meant to upgrade safety equipment and tighten well control as well as force oil companies to show regulators detailed plans of how they will manage risks and prevent blowouts at offshore oil and gas sites.

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.

At the same time, however, production from all other sources — such as conventional gas fields on land and offshore as well as so - called tight gas and coal - bed methane — has been declining at a rate of about 5 percent per year.

Even more damage was to come as the oil and gas industry shifted offshore in the late 1930s, eventually planting about 7,000 wells in the Gulf.

The Company is an international provider of offshore contract drilling services for oil and gas wells.

Transocean Ltd. provides offshore contract drilling services for oil and gas wells.

The Contract Drilling Services segment comprises mobile offshore drilling fleet, related equipment and work crews primarily on a day rate basis to drill oil and gas wells.

Oil & gas contract drillers, and offshore support service firms, are also well represented on this year's list.

Western gray whales are facing, the large - scale offshore oil and gas development programs near their summer feeding ground, as well as fatal net entrapments off Japan during migration, which pose significant threats to the future survival of the population.

Senator Barack Obama commented on the drilling idea on Tuesday, saying: «Much like his gas - tax gimmick that would leave consumers with pennies in savings, opening our coastlines to offshore drilling would take at least a decade to produce any oil at all, and the effect on gasoline prices would be negligible at best since America only has 3 percent of the world's oil.

Simpletons and Bush / Mcbush apologists also feel that ethanol which is LESS efficient than ordinary gas, is a GREAT idea, even as it creates the world's largest dead zone in the Gulf, offshore drilling is THE answer despite anyone w / a brain stating that this capacity won't come online for 30 years and which will produce about three weeks» worth of oil at our country's CURRENT rate of use, and that some silly gas tax reprieve, which will cost us in infrastructure improvements and lost jobs, is a good thing....

Similar trends are evident offshore as well (Figure 3), where only 10.5 million of the 44 million leased acres are currently producing oil or gas.

Abandoned offshore oil and gas wells in the North Sea may be a source of significant methane emissions finds a new study, which claims to be the first to measure the amount of methane leaking from offshore wells.

But it's also being driven by advancing technology that's unlocking unconventional gas supplies in Queensland (coal seam gas) as well as Western Australia's Northwest Shelf gas supplies (through advances in offshore drilling).

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.

Ohio State University will conduct research in collaboration with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to increase our understanding of the occurrence, volume and distribution of natural gas hydrates in the northern Gulf of Mexico using more than 1,700 petroleum industry well logs that penetrate the gas hydrate stability zone, or the offshore depths and locations where gas hydrates flourish.

House legislation requiring a new federal offshore leasing plan that includes areas off South Carolina and Virginia is the best way to create new access to federal oil and natural gas resources sooner rather than later.

He has called for building more nuclear and coal plants, ramping up the state's natural gas use, opening offshore oil and gas resources, as well as putting wind turbines offshore and electric cars on its roads.

HEMP is a good answer — no wars were fought for hemp and cooking oil, no harmful pipelines were built and leaked for that oil, no ocean life was ruined due to offshore drilling, no one's health was effected for that vegetable oil, the air is cleaner with that oil due to no green house gases released — this oil can be recycled from our food — hemp can replace fibers, pulp, plastics and it still makes food and grows in under 3 months (and it does not need much water, no fertilizer and cleans the air!!

The president of A.K. Suda, Ajay Suda, shares his insights on the evolution of offshore wind farm installation vehicles and how the oil and gas sector has helped the wind industry better prepare for offshore construction.

Gaseous hydrocarbons freed from the clathrates are collected by methods well known to those skilled in the art of offshore gas recovery.

There is also no need to modify the current natural gas co-generation natural gas plants as the power companies will be buying the same gas from the solar plants that they are at present getting from offshore wells.

Well, this one starts by opening up the North Slope of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas leasing, clearing the way for oil shale development on public lands, and allowing offshore drilling on heretofore off - limits areas of the Atlanta and Pacific coasts - including, of course, California.

Let's start with the good news today (the for - now - largest offshore wind power project is online) and move on to the more troubling (another study casts serious doubt on the benefits of natural gas as a bridge fuel as more renewable energy gets built).

Midstream Oil and Gas Deal of the Year: Bahrain LNG Advising The Oil & Gas Holding Company B.S.C. (Closed)(nogaholding) on the development of Bahrain's first LNG receiving and regasification terminal project, in respect of the onshore and offshore aspects, including the development, construction and shipping aspects, as well as the financing of the transaction.

This masks a healthy conventional oil and gas sector that has demands for offshore and onshore upstream workers, such as geoscientists and reservoir engineers, as well as downstream sales and marketing professionals.