Sentences with phrase «offshore oil exploration companies»

It takes courage for a government to serve notice to powerful offshore oil exploration companies that they're not welcome, but that's exactly what the Belize government has been doing throughout 2015.

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The sale would come as the offshore sector continues to struggle with low oil prices, and oil exploration and production companies focus investments on lower cost shale fields onshore, particularly the Permian Basin in West Texas.

The company is an oil and gas exploration and development company in the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico and offshore international areas.

So - called roadless oil extraction, in which oil companies use offshore exploration and production methods and leave less of an imprint on the area being drilled, is a viable alternative, argue Swing and others associated with Scientists Concerned for Yasuni, a network of independent researchers that first came together in 2004 to stop a proposed road project inside the park.

Over 500 activists peacefully demonstrated against the negative impacts of offshore exploration and exploitation, under discussion at the MCE Deepwater Development summit by representatives from big oil and gas companies including Total, Shell, BP, Exxon, and Repsol.