Sentences with phrase «offshore oil and gas wells»

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.

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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.

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.

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....

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.

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.

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.

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.