Sentences with phrase «oil discovery in»

The burgeoning port and railroad industry, combined with oil discovery in 1901, has induced continual surges in the city's population.

- 04/07/13 Statoil's high - quality oil discovery in the Flemish Pass basin off Newfoundland could lead to increased demand for exploration and production workers.

March 2017: Spanish energy giant Repsol and Armstrong Energy Corp. announce «Nanushuk Play» at Pikka, described as the most significant onshore Alaskan Arctic oil discovery in decades — and well within the growing reach of the Trans - Alaska Pipeline North Slope expansion.

Just the proven reserves in three different Brazilian pre-salt exploration areas total 10 billion to 16 billion barrels, the largest oil discovery in the Western Hemisphere in three decades.

The 2012 vice presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has stated that Ghana's excessive borrowing has put the country's oil discovery in danger.

In 1922 one of the most dramatic oil discoveries in history took place here.

The columnist concludes with concern about aluminum and oil discoveries in Greenland that excite the locals.

Oil discoveries in the Bakken Formation have led to rapid industrial development and job creation» Credit: Tom Reichner / Shutterstock.com

While many parts of the country continue to struggle with the housing downturn and economic recession, North Dakota is enjoying significant economic growth due to one of the largest oil discoveries in United States history.

Not exact matches

New pipelines in Siberia and Central Asia, as well as the discovery of shale oil in China, mean that Asian refineries will have access to closer sources of crude, he says.

Now that the United States is less dependent on Saudi petroleum, thanks to fracking and new oil discoveries, the fact that OPEC is not identified as a top priority anymore indicates that interest in the organization has declined.

In developing the National OCS Program, which has also been known as a Five Year Program, the Secretary is required to achieve an appropriate balance among the potential for environmental impacts, for discovery of oil and gas, and for adverse effects on the coastal zone.

A number of oil and gas discoveries have been made in recent years in the waters off the coast of that country, especially in a large basin called the Nam Con Son.

HOUSTON, March 23, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)-- Apache Corporation (NYSE: APA)(Nasdaq: APA) today announced a significant oil discovery on Block 9 / 18a Area - W in the United Kingdom sector of the North Sea...

Mayan Energy, the AIM listed oil and gas company, has announced a new gas discovery at Stockdale field, in Wilson County, Texas, as part of its ongoing development activities at the Morris 1 well.

However, production is expected to improve in the second half of 2017 primarily due to growth from the company's new oil and gas discovery (Alpine High) in the Permian Basin.

The «peak oil» school, which has argued that we have passed the peak of oil discovery and are now in permanent decline, has been proved wrong.

Exxon has reported to its shareholders that «what may become the world's largest coal mine is being developed in Colombia and a new oil discovery is the biggest there in 18 years.»

It was technological change, above all the discovery of how to use the energy concentrated in coal and oil, that led to the Industrial Revolution and subsequent boom.

Like a petroleum discovery, the key to spice quality is the percentage of oil in it.

Hanukkah includes the custom of eating foods fried or baked in oil, as the original miracle of the Hanukkah menorah involved the discovery of a small flask of pure olive oil.

Hon. Kofi Buah, who is also the current ranking member on the Energy and Mines committe and Member of Parliament for Ellembele, in an interview with journalists on Thursday said: «President John Mahama led Cabinet into deciding to name the third FPSO after the ex-President, in recognition of the role that He played leading up to the 2007 discovery of oil in commercial quantities.»

As far back as 2015, the primate had prophesied that discovery of crude oil in Lagos and it is published on page 99 of the WTN 2014/15 edition.

Corruption in the Ghanaian oil and gas industries has been a concern since the discovery of the Jubilee oil field in 2007.

The second major development is the discovery of oil in Turkana.

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.

Uganda recently announced the discovery of viable oil reserves in the northern part of the country, which is estimated to contain over 2.5 billion barrels of oil.

«Over the last five years, the accelerated borrowing, the massive increase in debt has basically compromised Ghana's oil discovery and the benefits that we could have gotten from it,» he said.

Policies that develop the petrochemical industry in Nzema to offer direct employment or ancillary services for the unemployed residents to earn descent salaries to meet the high cost of living the oil discovery has brought in its wake; policies that improve education facilities in Nzema here and provide scholarships for needy students to expand their knowledge base and acquire relevant competencies for employment into the oil sector; policies that offer apprenticeship and vocational training for the youth who are unable to acquire formal education so that they are also not left out of employment; policies that develop infrastructures in Nzema are what we need.

Concern about the growing support for the SNP's proposals for an independent Scottish state — boosted by the discovery of North Sea oil in 1970 — led Harold Wilson's government to set in motion the devolution referendum, which took place, and failed, in 1979.

The governor, who broke down in tears over the ongoing events in the country, said Nigeria could be heading for doom because of the latest oil discoveries by nations that once depended on Nigeria's oil and the fall in oil price.

A combination of the new fiscal regime and GNPC's promotional activities yielded results, as a number of oil exploration companies invested in Ghana, which led to the discovery in 2007 of the Jubilee Fields, followed by a quick succession of other discoveries, including the TEN fields.»

Following months of exploration activities, Borno State has joined the club of states producing oil in the country with the discovery of crude oil in the...

Dr. Bawumia said the NDC government in spite of the high borrowing and discovery of oil, can not sustain the social intervention programmes the NPP initiated under the erstwhile President John Kufour.

«If we, in the NPP, were in power these 5 years of the oil discovery, the face of the Western Region, and, indeed, the face of Ghana would have changed dramatically.

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode has declared that Lagos has officially joined the League of Oil Producing States in Nigeria following the discovery of crude oil by Tunde Folawiyo Petroleum Company Limited in Badagry, LagOil Producing States in Nigeria following the discovery of crude oil by Tunde Folawiyo Petroleum Company Limited in Badagry, Lagoil by Tunde Folawiyo Petroleum Company Limited in Badagry, Lagos.

But now, a team of researchers in the University of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering say their discovery of a type of fire tornado they call a «blue whirl» could lead to beneficial new approaches for reducing carbon emissions and improving oil spill cleanup.

Beyond improvements to fuel efficiency and oil spill remediation, there are currently few easy methods to generate a stable vortex in the lab, so the team hopes their discovery of the «blue swirl» can serve as a natural research platform for the future study of vortices and vortex breakdown in fluid mechanics.

In September Chevron announced the discovery of a field containing up to 15 billion barrels of oil beneath the Gulf of Mexico, touting it as «a platform for growth for years to come.»

«Our discovery about the ROC40 protein suggests that it may be increasing the expression of genes involved in the synthesis of oil in microalgae,» Rathinasabapathi said.

Researchers from the University of Houston have reported the discovery of a nanotechnology - based solution that could address both issues — achieving 15 percent tertiary oil recovery at low cost, without the large volume of chemicals used in most commercial fluids.

The discovery probably explains why the petroleum industry has not been able to achieve greater efficiencies in the electrostatic removal of water from crude oil, Ristenpart says, a process that has been used for nearly a century, though he adds that the process is extremely difficult to observe because of the opaqueness of the oil.

Oil and gas reserves in the ground will become worthless, stranded assets; bets backing future discoveries will be binned.

When we got to the discovery of oil in Pennsylvania, I stopped him.

«The discovery of Shell indicates a clear path toward more intensive use of already planted lands, and thus should lessen pressures to expand the land area devoted to oil palm, notably onto endangered rainforest land — a major concern for the environment and a rallying point for activists in recent years,» says Robert A. Martienssen, Ph.D., scientific co-founder of Orion Genomics, who is also a professor of plant genetics at CSHL.

Proponents say recent major oil discoveries and successfully executed projects on nearby state lands prove there is both demand and the know - how to drill in the Arctic.

Milestone discoveries in kidney function and the health impacts of environmental toxins like DDT and oil were some of the highlights of the work conducted during the 20th century.

My favorite new discovery is olive oil in a cask.

Zinc, vitamin E, green tea, and grapeseed oil are curing acne with no end in sight and new discoveries are flooding in weekly.

With the discovery of oil in the North Sea the city has boomed, resulting in a vibrant night - life scene with a fantastic mixture of dating opportunities.