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Representation of an independent oil and gas company in connection with its development of an LNG terminal in the offshore waters of Southern California.

«A proposal for the first oil and gas drilling in federal offshore waters of the Arctic took a step forward Thursday as regulators released a draft environmental impact statement, which reflects concerns about the effects of the project on marine life and local communities.»

Although constituting just 4 % of the ocean, coral reefs are home to 25 % of all the marine species in the world, making the offshore waters of Belize an enormous living aquarium.

During the season's peak (roughly December through March), as many as 7,000 gray whales pass south through the offshore waters of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.

Males feed near the eastern Aleutian Islands and in the Gulf of Alaska, and females feed further south, in the offshore waters of Washington and Oregon.

When Santa Ana conditions prevail, with winds in the lower two to three kilometers (1.25 - 1.8 miles) of the atmosphere from the north through east, the air over the coastal basin is extremely dry, and this dry air extends out over offshore waters of the Pacific Ocean.

After heading out, you'll visit some of the finest fishing grounds in the world as you troll the offshore waters of Maui, Lanai and Kahoolawe.

As the Trump administration advances plans to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the offshore waters of Alaska to drilling — and as decreasing sea ice increases options of Arctic drilling — that could mean an increase in black carbon.

Not exact matches

«According to the most recent assessment, the steady oil price recovery since summer 2017 and renewed interest in growth opportunities has led to oil majors catching up in terms of exploration activity this year, both in the shale industry and offshore deep water,» OPEC said.

Gina Hanrahan added that offshore wind costs were «blowing all expectations out of the water and halving in just over two years.»

In a troubling sign of escalating tensions, dozens of Chinese ships confronted Vietnamese coast guard boats approaching an oil rig deployed by Chinese offshore oil company CNOOC in waters claimed by both nations.

As an example, Klein points to a 2003 incident in California when a Crystal cruise ship discharged 138,000 litres of waste water 14 km offshore into the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.

Overview of Renewable Energy on the Outer Continental Shelf — BOEM is responsible for offshore renewable energy development in Federal waters and anticipates future development on the OCS from three general sources: offshore wind, ocean wave, and ocean current energy.

Atlantic Sand Assessment Project — To help coastal communities recover from Hurricane Sandy, promote resilient coastal systems, and help build a national offshore sand inventory, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) sponsored offshore surveys to identify new sources of sand in federal waters from Miami, Florida to Massachusetts in 2015 and several site specific surveys in 2016 and 2017.

S51 Singapore Exchange — April 18, 2016 A subsidiary of the Singaporean marine and offshore engineering company has been implicated in a bribery scandal, to win the orders for deep - water rigs worth US$ 800 million, involving the Brazilian state - owned shipbuilder Sete Brasil and the state - owned oil company Petrobras.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is conducting a high - level assessment of all waters offshore the United States Atlantic Coast for potential future offshore wind lease locations.

This will make the most challenging of offshore operations, using the deep and ultra deep water rigs owned and leased by companies like SeaDrill, Transocean, Ensco and Rowan, increasingly profitable moving through 2012 and into 2013.

Bringing the Seattle - based company closer to the nation's seat of power could be a competitive advantage for Amazon, with growing calls to regulate tech monopolies, billions of dollars in untaxed offshore stockpiles at stake and the habit some tech companies have of getting into hot water for operating on the fringes of state and federal rules.

The boat, now about a hundred yards offshore, had six inches of water in the bilge, which became seven, then eight, and she sailed a little sluggishly, I thought.

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.

Cuomo announced a ban against offshore drilling and exploration with the «Save Our Waters» bill, which prohibits the leasing of lands, including underwater lands, for offshore drilling and exploration in New York state waters.

The Cuomo administration plan also makes clear that while offshore wind representing 2,400 megawatts and hundreds of turbines will be in the waters south of Long Island, none is expected to be visible from shore.

The Deepwater Wind offshore wind turbine project and water quality protection — in particular, the candidates» differing positions in regard to programs that will result in the phase - out of nonfunctioning septic systems — were also among the topics at the debate.

The United States Navy is planning a new round of sonar and weapons testing and training exercises in its Atlantic Training and Testing Study Area, which covers some 2.6 million nautical miles of inshore and offshore waters, extending from the...

Cuomo urged LIPA to approve an offshore wind farm 30 miles from Montauk and said the state would commit to other offshore projects that would place hundreds of turbines in federal waters off the Long Island coast by 2030.

Cuomo advanced the «Save Our Waters» bill to prohibit the leasing of lands, including underwater lands, for offshore drilling and exploration in New York state waters.

Hermine twisted hundreds of miles offshore in the Atlantic Ocean today, creating large waves in some southern New England beach waters that lured in surfers despite the rough surf and rip currents that kept most beachgoers away on the last day of the long holiday weekend.

Bonga is Nigeria's first deep - water development in depths of more than 1,000 metres, and is located 120 km offshore Nigeria.

Mooi explored the crystalline waters with a snorkel and flippers, while other members of the team dove to depths approaching 400 feet to explore the deep - water reefs further offshore.

In a review article recently published online in the journal Nature, researchers arrived at a new estimate for total usable global offshore groundwater: 500,000 cubic kilometers — a quantity 100 times greater than the amount of water extracted from land aquifers since 1900, the study states.

The Gulf of Mexico may be open for business and eager to attract tourists, but it's still unclear whether or not marine and coastal ecosystems there are healthy two years after BP's offshore drilling rig exploded 40 miles off the Louisiana coast, eventually releasing 205.8 million gallons of oil into the water column.

But because more than 40 percent of the Earth's population lives about 60 miles from the coastline, the authors write that taking advantage of offshore groundwater could help dampen looming water scarcity problems likely to be compounded by sea - level rise and drought.

It will be the first oil - exploration programme to run in US Arctic waters since 2000, and could mark the start of the first offshore commercial drilling in the American north, although it would take another decade to establish production wells.

Led by Ken Buesseler, a senior scientist and marine chemist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), the team found that a small fraction of contaminated seafloor sediments off Fukushima are moved offshore by typhoons that resuspend radioactive particles in the water, which then travel laterally with southeasterly currents into the Pacific Ocean.

Because of unprecedented hurricane - related rainfall in southeastern Texas last week, the Gulf of Mexico and its bountiful offshore ecosystems are contending with the record - setting pulse of freshwater — a volume of water exceeding the entire Chesapeake Bay — that surged off the land, sweeping along sediment, nutrients, and pollutants.

It would increase funding for Interior programs that support «environmentally responsible development of energy on public lands and offshore waters,» the document says.

Shelf waters off the Pacific Northwest extend anywhere from 30 to 80 kilometers offshore and lie beneath the California Current, one of the richest marine ecosystems in the world.

Now, Graham and colleagues are waiting to see whether the species becomes a permanent resident, perhaps encouraged by declining coastal water quality and a growing thicket of offshore oil drilling platforms, which may provide the perfect hard substrate for a bottom - dwelling life stage.

Perry suspects that the numbers of blue crab larvae, which spawn in open waters 15 - 150 kilometers offshore, will drop because of their exposure.

According to the study, the west Florida shelf and the entire offshore Texas coast could be on the verge of seeing dramatically high densities of lionfish, based on ocean conditions (water flow, etc.,) which help spread the invasive species and concentrate them to new areas.

Because of their dependence on both coastal and offshore waters during their early life - stages, we think that they may be more susceptible to fisheries than previously thought, and current protective measures in Mexico may unfortunately be insufficient.»

Measures including the current prohibition of commercial fishing from large vessels within 50 nautical miles from the coast have resulted in some protection, but the researchers say that this new information highlights that hammerhead sharks may still be in danger, due to their use of both coastal and offshore waters during early life stages.

The flow of fresh water into the Gulf of Mexico has keep the slick offshore, scientists believe.

Canyons that are located close to major coastal towns and cities, such as the Lisbon Canyon offshore Portugal, or the Blanes Canyon offshore Barcelona, can funnel litter straight to water depths of 4,500 m or more.»

Moreover, even as the poisonous patch of water moved offshore, a second distinct hydrogen sulfide emission event occurred closer to the coast.

Dr Paolo Cipollini from NOC explained: «When a satellite altimeter overpasses the area affected by a surge, it gives us a unique profile of the water surface level from offshore to the coast, as well as concurrent measurements of wave height.

There is only one official source of data on pollution caused by offshore drilling in U.S. waters: the National Response Center, an online reporting system for oil and chemical spills managed by the U.S. Coast Guard.

In addition to enabling drilling in ever - deeper waters worldwide, robot subs will also be instrumental in ramping up the installation of offshore turbines that generate electricity from the strong winds and tides found at sea, says Michel, one of the main organizers of the annual Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Center's 2010 International ROV Competition, which challenges students to complete underwater missions using ROVs they design and build.

The new analysis compares water temperatures during two time periods a century apart at two of Florida's historic offshore lighthouses — Fowey Rocks Lighthouse, off Miami, and Carysfort Reef Lighthouse, off Key Largo, Florida.

While pundits and regulators issue encomiums to safety, the most noticeable shifts in the «post BP» oil industry are a fat discount on rental rates for offshore platforms no longer needed in the Gulf and the exodus of idled rigs heading to other waters.