Sentences with phrase «oil drilling at»

Obama Willing to Compromise on Offshore Oil Drilling At the end of last week, Barack Obama changed his position on offshore drilling.

Through court and administrative challenges of unlawfully issued permits and oil leases and advocacy work along with our coalition partners, Earthjustice has succeeded in keeping open the question of whether these seas should be open to oil drilling at all.

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Transporting sand, drilling pipe, and crude oil furnished only 4.5 % of UP's volumes at the peak in 2014.

During oil's deep decline, Schlumberger offered to drill in oilfields that were on hiatus in exchange for a share of future production, a move that was «very controversial» and has yet to pay off, says Colin Davies, an analyst at Bernstein.

Philippines - focused oil and gas play Nido Petroleum has launched a $ 31.9 million capital raising to fund drilling work at its Galoc project.

Empire Oil & Gas has kicked off a $ 15.7 million capital raising to fund new drilling at its flagship Red Gully North project and evaluate other projects in the Perth Basin near Gingin.

Perth - based oil explorer Red Emperor Resources says delays at its Georgian project have been caused by joint venture partner Range Resources, which has failed to carry out a planned drilling program.

Energy companies frequently «flare» or burn off vast supplies of methane at drilling sites because it earns less money than oil.

For oil and gas companies that want to install drilling and pumping infrastructure there, continuous monitoring of conditions above, below and at the surface of the water will be integral, and right now drones are the only feasibly deployable technology that can collect and relay all that data in a cost - effective manner.

Additionally, it comes at a time when oil prices are on the rise, but stuck in a range that makes multibillion - dollar projects in new offshore areas unattractive for many drillers.

Researchers at Rice University have proved that adding graphene oxide to water - based drilling fluids can improve oil extraction by minimizing potential leakage.

The platform is used for everything from analyzing seismic data to find promising places to drill for oil to looking at plant genomes in search of new hybrids.

For the past two years, OPEC's pump - at - will policies have flooded the market with cheap supply, causing economic pain for producers with higher cash costs, including those involved in fracking, the Canadian oil sands and deepwater drilling.

The signs are clear — US drillers are no longer adding rigs at breakneck paces, despite the rise in oil prices.

It wants a straight, perfectly positioned, well - drilled drain hole right down the identified sweet spot of the reservoir being targeted, one that, when completed, will yield the maximum amount of oil over its economic life at the lowest possible cost.

When Baker Hughes and Halliburton were both downgraded by equity analysts following an Obama administration oil drilling ban in 2010, several of their long - serving directors decamped to take up seats at other firms.

The EIA's latest Drilling Productivity Report estimates the Eagle Ford oil production at 1.271 million bpd in October, revised down to reflect Harvey's impact.

Mitchell, who died two years ago at age 94, was reportedly among those urging for tighter regulation of the practice, fearing that small, independent drillers might take dangerous shortcuts as they rushed to participate in a historic oil boom.

The foundation of that plan is the inventory of more than 10,000 future drilling locations that it put together that can generate a minimum of a 35 % after - tax return at $ 50 oil.

Global oil producers were able to earn attractive full - cycle rates of returns on capital employed above $ 85 per barrel, but at current prices, the industry is being forced to significantly pare back drilling activity.

In North America's most active shale fields, the drilling and hydraulic fracturing of new wells is directly placing older adjacent wells at risk of suffering a premature decline in oil and gas production.

In our Special Energy Report: An American Energy Renaissance, we highlight that just a few years ago investors were contemplating the supply constraints facing the petroleum industry, but with the disruptive technology in shale oil and gas in the U.S., we could now be looking at decades of drilling ahead.

When the BP oil spill was at its worst and Crist was (opportunistically as ever) backing restrictions on offshore drilling, Rubio hung tough.

According to a recent report released by the United States Geological Survey, Oklahoma is just one of eight states identified in the report (also Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Ohio and Texas) where earthquakes are becoming increasingly common, at least partially because of oil and gas drilling practices.

Drilling for oil in Long Island Sound and nearby Atlantic Ocean waterways would be catastrophic for environmental and economic reasons, dozens of speakers told federal officials at a hearing organized by Rep. Lee Zeldin, who opposes offshore dDrilling for oil in Long Island Sound and nearby Atlantic Ocean waterways would be catastrophic for environmental and economic reasons, dozens of speakers told federal officials at a hearing organized by Rep. Lee Zeldin, who opposes offshore drillingdrilling.

Since the three main Westminster political parties all endorse the conclusions of Sir Ian Wood's recent review on how to maximise the economic recovery of oil and gas from the UK Continental Shelf (Search for UKCS Maximising Recovery Review Final Report, here), and its tacit underlying fiscal premises (namely that there is a need for a simplified fiscal regime to incentivise investment and drilling activity, as well as to ease the burden upon the new regulator of the upstream sector), it does not take the gift of prophecy to appreciate that the ultimate outcome of this subsequent review on the shape of the UK fiscal regime seems foreordained; namely, a return to the situation that prevailed before the introduction of SC, whereby the only levy on income from oil and gas fields is to be Corporation Income Tax at the standard rate levied on the likes of Starbucks and Amazon.

As ice melts and shipping becomes easier and at some point, oil drilling in the arctic ocean will probably increase, Having a strong military will benefit Russia.

With the release of its master plan for offshore wind energy, New York State is doubling down on its commitment to renewable energy at a time when the Trump administration is moving to allow coastal drilling for oil and gas.

At the same time, the League of Conservation Voters, a national environmental group, singled out Katko as part of a $ 550,000 TV campaign drawing attention to a provision that is expected to be added to the Senate GOP tax bill that opens the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.

A coalition of climate activists have held a march in West Sussex to protest at test oil drilling in the area.

Activists at a camp in Balcombe, West Sussex, where energy firm Cuadrilla was test - drilling for oil, have chained themselves together and blocked the gates to the company's site.

«We may be looking at offshore oil drilling,» he said, in arguing for the wind farm, which could be operational in 2022.

At the same time, he said he didn't think the president would use the state as a case study against oil development, considering the recent decision to allow exploratory offshore drilling near Alaska.

For example, oil wells drilled in 1944 near Cranfield, Miss., are not reacting to extra pressure from injected CO2, according to geologist Susan Hovorka of the University of Texas at Austin, who is running the test.

Groups opposed to fracking have raised the alarm over images of storage tanks shifted off their foundations at oil and gas drilling sites.

At the end of oil and gas drilling, water that was used to create small fractures in deep rock to retrieve the fuel is injected back into the ground.

Environmentalists claim that Charles Monnett of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) is the victim of a «witch hunt» aimed at opening up more of Alaska to oil and gas drilling.

Mark Brownstein, a climate expert at the non-profit Environmental Defense Fund, said the countries, two of the world's largest petroleum drillers, showed real leadership in «setting a mark for other major oil and gas producing nations.»

The Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources wound up a week - long meeting in Hobart, Australia, considering proposals for two «marine protected areas» aimed at conserving the ocean wilderness from fishing, drilling for oil and other industrial interests.

Man - made sounds such as offshore drilling, seismic testing for deep sea oil, and even the hum from that Spanish cargo ship permeate the ocean at ever - increasing levels.

Past research has shown that processes such as wastewater injection at oil drilling and fracking sites throughout the state could induce a small number of earthquakes but scientists have never been able to specifically link some of the more distant or stronger earthquakes with these sometimes faraway wastewater wells.

«When drilling a relief well, you want to get as deep as possible so that you can seal the well close to the [oil] reservoir,» says Roger Anderson, an oil geophysicist and a professor at Columbia University's Lamont — Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, N.Y..

At the bottom of the device are shear valves or rams designed to cut through the drill pipe and block off any oil flowing inside the pipe or through the surrounding well casing.

As an oil well is drilled casings are cemented in place at different depths to reinforce the borehole.

Horizontal drilling was used to drill down into the field and then turn at a right angle to create what amounts to a sump under the cracked formation where the released oil and gas accumulated and could be collected, then lifted to the surface.

«Oil sands and offshore drilling are both symptoms of the same problem: We're running out of easy oil,» says Simon Dyer, oil sands director at the Pembina Institute, a nonprofit sustainable energy research organizatiOil sands and offshore drilling are both symptoms of the same problem: We're running out of easy oil,» says Simon Dyer, oil sands director at the Pembina Institute, a nonprofit sustainable energy research organizatioil,» says Simon Dyer, oil sands director at the Pembina Institute, a nonprofit sustainable energy research organizatioil sands director at the Pembina Institute, a nonprofit sustainable energy research organization.

It will go down vertically for the first 1.1 miles, then bend eastward toward the fault at a 50 degree angle for another 1.8 miles, using the directional drilling techniques invented to allow more complete extraction of tough - to - reach oil deposits.

This phenomenon, called von Kármán vortex shedding, affects any elongated structure caught in wind or water currents such as lampposts, high rises and the long vertical pipes used for drilling oil at sea.

This picture may be about to change in light of a study of deep - sea rocks and sediments led by John Parkes, a microbiologist at Cardiff University in the U.K.. By visiting oil - drilling projects at two sites in the Pacific in 2002, Parkes and colleagues obtained samples as deep as 400 meters beneath the seafloor.

$ 8 billion) over first ten years for deficit reductionObeys PAYGO; Starting in 2026, 25 % of auction revenues for deficit reductionFuels and TransportationIncrease biofuels to 60 million gallons by 2030, low - carbon fuel standard of 10 % by 2010, 1 million plug» in hybrid cars by 2025, raise fuel economy standards, smart growth funding, end oil subsidies, promote natural gas drilling, enhanced oil recoverySmart growth funding, plug - in hybrids, raise fuel economy standards $ 7 billion a year for smart growth funding, plug - in hybrids, natural gas vehicles, raise fuel economy standards; offshore drilling with revenue sharing and oil spill veto, natural gas fracking disclosureCost ContainmentInternational offsetsOffset pool, banking and borrowing flexibility, soft price collar using permit reserve auction at $ 28 per ton going to 60 % above three - year - average market price» Hard» price collar between $ 12 and $ 25 per ton, floor increases at 3 % + CPI, ceiling at 5 % + CPI, plus permit reserve auction, offsets like W - MClean Air Act And StatesNot discussedOnly polluters above 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent a year, regional cap and trade suspended until 2017, EPA to set stationary source performance standards in 2016, some Clean Air Act provisions excludedOnly polluters above 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent a year, regional cap and trade pre-empted, establishes coal - fired plant performance standards, some Clean Air Act provisions excludedInternational CompetitivenessTax incentives for domestic auto industryFree allowances for trade - exposed industries, 2020 carbon tariff on importsCarbon tariff on importsReferences: Barack Obama, 2007; Barack Obama, 8/3/08; Pew Center, 6/26/09; leaked drafts of American Power Act, 5/11/10.