Sentences with phrase «offshore oil discoveries»

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With the discovery of larger commercial quantities of oil and gas in deep water offshore Ghana, It became necessary for the bill to passed as the new phase of oil exploration has comes with new challenges with actual development, production and utilisation of its oil and gas resources.

With the discovery of oil just offshore, Santa Barbara remained wealthy and affluent from the late 19th century onwards, and today there are a number of appealing attractions to be seen.

The discovery of oil in the 1960s led to a boom and the emirate used its resources to diversify into a wide scope of industries and economic sectors with the launch of a number of outstanding initiatives such as the offshore Jebel Ali Free Zone.

Though the oil is beneath relatively shallow waters owned by the state off Alaska's North Slope, the discovery signals that the geology there, potentially onshore in the northern portion of the National Petroleum Reserve - Alaska and in the offshore of the Beaufort and Chukchi seas holds considerable promise.

Well, almost: I missed the 1970s, but the decade is of note because the discovery of oil in the North Sea forced a paradigm shift in offshore and subsea technology, and the skills and job specs required.