Sentences with phrase «offshore oil and gas»

Provided administrative and business support to CEO and Managing Director of major company offering engineering services for offshore oil and gas industry in Southeast Asia
The processes used for unconventional oil and gas development are different from those used in existing European onshore and offshore oil and gas fields, which will provide further opportunities for employers and contractors with the right expertise, or willing to retrain.
Pvt. Ltd. is primarily engaged in contracting and has site offices all over India with major contracts for power generating stations (hydroelectric and thermal), chemical and fertiliser factories, petroleum refineries, offshore oil and gas platforms, etc..
His specialist areas are fraud and asset tracing, sanctions advice, offshore oil and gas, marine and trade.
The managing partner of the firm's Dubai office and a commercial litigation and shipping partner, Rovine advises on a broad range of commercial disputes and deals with matters regarding asset recovery, enforcements and contracts relating to offshore oil and gas, shipbuilding and shipping.
It has also now been held to be wrong by the London Commercial Court in a judgment, which has had repercussions throughout the offshore oil and gas drilling industry.
For more than 30 years, she has handled marine and energy litigation, including collision cases, hurricane losses, onshore and offshore oil and gas claims, hydraulic fracturing cases, marine and energy products liability litigation, the defense of personal injury and death actions, contract and lien claims, dock and stevedore liabilities and subrogation litigation.
Instructed on behalf of a large Korean multinational in LCIA arbitration involving claims for US$ 35 million in respect of the construction of an offshore oil and gas platform.
Simon is a partner specialising in insurance, shipping and general commercial litigation matters with a particular focus on disputes in the maritime and offshore oil and gas industries.
Simon also provides guidance to offshore construction, installation and drilling contractors on negotiating contracts and resolving disputes in the offshore oil and gas industries.
Russell v Transocean (Supreme Court, 2012)[2012] ICR 185 John acted for a group of employers in a case about the application of the annual leave provisions of the Working Time Regulations to offshore oil and gas workers.
We guide and advise our clients through the process of developing, financing and operating a wide range of onshore and offshore oil and gas facilities; from licensing through to decommissioning.
Represented the Wood Group PSN in the trial of several wrongful death and personal injury claims arising from an explosion on an offshore oil and gas platform.
A variety of energy efficiency, renewable energy, and offshore oil and gas provisions came close to enactment last year and could be advanced again.
«We're creating a new offshore oil and gas leasing program.
Some of his large projects were increased coal production and power generation in the Latrobe Valley, new offshore oil and gas fields in Gippsland, the West Gate Bridge over the lower Yarra River, a new international airport for Melbourne at Tullamarine and two new universities (Monash University and La Trobe University).
Today — due to the important, irreplaceable values of its Arctic waters for Indigenous, Alaska Native and local communities» subsistence and cultures, wildlife and wildlife habitat, and scientific research; the vulnerability of these ecosystems to an oil spill; and the unique logistical, operational, safety, and scientific challenges and risks of oil extraction and spill response in Arctic waters — the United States is designating the vast majority of U.S. waters in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas as indefinitely off limits to offshore oil and gas leasing, and Canada will designate all Arctic Canadian waters as indefinitely off limits to future offshore Arctic oil and gas licensing, to be reviewed every five years through a climate and marine science - based life - cycle assessment.
Another bargaining chip with moderate Democrats might be offshore oil and gas drilling.
Any move by the Norwegian wealth fund to offload its fossil fuel assets would send shockwaves around global markets, given that the fund, itself built on the country's offshore oil and gas revenues, holds an estimated 1.3 per cent of global market capitalisation.
Interior's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) 2018 budget increases spending for expanding offshore oil and gas drilling by more than $ 10 million through the national Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program.
Today the Obama Administration once again demonstrated climate leadership by taking the Arctic Ocean off the table in its five - year offshore oil and gas drilling plan.
• The shale revolution has created a new competitive environment for investment in offshore oil and gas • Policy support and technology developments promise major cost reductions for the next wave of offshore wind projects
Jan 4, 2018 — The Trump administration has just announced that it would open up vast new stretches of federal waters for offshore oil and gas drilling off the Arctic, Pacific and Atlantic coasts.
Friends of the Earth France, along with a number of allies, ended a three - day blockade yesterday of an international summit on offshore oil and gas drilling, in Pau, France, with a mass «die - in».
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.
This year, the icebergs moved farther west than usual, invading an offshore oil and gas drilling zone near the Grand Banks, she said.
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.
On Tuesday, Obama designated «the vast majority of U.S. waters in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas as indefinitely off limits to offshore oil and gas leasing.»
Secretary Salazar reached his decision after reviewing a report from Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement (BOEM) Director Michael R. Bromwich and considering other information on the progress of offshore oil and gas safety reforms, the availability of spill response resources, and improved blowout containment capabilities.
The energy system is both a source of emissions that lead to global warming and it can also be directly affected by climate change: through changes in our energy consumption patterns, potential shutdowns of offshore oil and gas production, changing ice and snow conditions in the oil production regions of Alaska, changing sea ice conditions in the Arctic Ocean and the implications for shipping routes, and impacts of sea - level rise on coasts, where so much of our energy facility infrastructure is located.
Since 2012 the PRRT applies to both onshore and offshore oil and gas, but it is set up as a tax on profits after all the exploration and extraction costs have been recouped, so it is usually many years before there is any benefit to Australia from the PRRT.
Virtually all of America's offshore oil and gas rigs (providing about 17 percent of U.S. production) are along the Gulf Coast, as is almost half of the country's refinery capacity; a fact that the country was unhappily reminded of when it was all shut down during Hurricane Harvey in 2017.
However, the restrictions on American offshore oil and gas production has always been precarious; the executive branch has complete authority to decide what happens in the federal waters of the outer continental shelf, from 3 to 200 miles out to sea.
The federal Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (PRRT) has replaced state royalties for new offshore oil and gas, so Victoria would not receive any royalty income from the new Dory gas project.
Currently, 51 % of Americans favor allowing more offshore oil and gas drilling in U.S. waters while 41 % are opposed.
Recent adaptation of offshore oil and gas industry construction vessels (OCVs) for work with wind projects prompted ABS this year to establish a new chapter in its manual and officially designate a Wind IMR unit dedicated to offshore wind turbine installation, maintenance and repair.
Adapting techniques and equipment from offshore oil and gas work for building offshore wind is being pioneered in Scotland.
TRENTON, N.J. (AP)-- New Jersey is prepared to thwart President Trump's plan for offshore oil and gas drilling by enacting a ban on such activ...
ABS has, however, recently classed UK - based Seajacks International's Seajacks Kracken and Seajacks Leviathan, self - propelled jack - up vessels intended for service both in Europe's offshore wind and offshore oil and gas industries.
This is an offshore oil and gas field off the southern coast of Brazil.
Further, it may be held that the OCSLA only provides jurisdiction where the development of mineral resources is concerned, since it was originally passed to address the growth of offshore oil and gas exploration rather than renewable energy production.
It has long been the common practice to grant offshore oil and gas drillers such exclusions, and it probably had little to do with the disaster that BP's alleged shoddy drilling practices has precipitated.
Recent favorable developments in wave energy due to the increased focus on climate change include, technological developments in Scotland, Australia, Denmark and the USA, and a high potential for energy supply - wave energy could provide 10 % of the current world electricity supply (if appropriately harnessed)- and the potential synergies with the offshore oil and gas industry could be significant.
Federal Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (PRRT) All onshore and offshore oil and gas extraction projects are required to pay the federal Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (PRRT), but this is intended to be a «super profits» tax payable only after all exploration, establishment, and operational costs have been recovered.
Access to U.S. offshore oil and gas resources remain vitally important to continued U.S. energy security and economic prosperity.
They can ban new climate - damaging projects, such as new onshore fossil fuel projects, but they have very limited ability to control offshore oil and gas projects in Commonwealth waters.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A new offshore oil and gas plan from the U.S. Department of the Interior blocks two drilling leases in the Arctic, but allows a new lease in Alaska's Cook Inlet and 10 new leases in the Gulf of Mexico over the next five years — a step that will worsen climate change by ensuring significant greenhouse gas pollution for the next 70 years.
Our public lands aren't the only critical battleground in the fight to phase out fossil fuels — offshore oil and gas drilling is a growing threat to our health and climate.
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.
Over his 25 - year career at Heerema, Chris was involved in all aspects of offshore oil and gas marine construction including engineering, operations, procurement, contracting, equipment management, planning, logistics, and project management.
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