Sentences with phrase «oil drilling leases»

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The plan would open the door for drilling in areas far beyond the U.S. epicenter of offshore drilling in the central and western Gulf of Mexico, giving oil and gas companies the opportunity to explore areas left out of leases for decades.

Companies in this industry lease out equipment for activities related to air, sea, and rail transport, as well as construction of highways, roads, tunnels, bridges, and oil drilling.

On Tuesday, the administration announced that it will sell leases for nearly 77 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico for oil and gas drilling — the largest offering ever.

Expanding offshore drilling April 28 In the same executive order, Trump ordered the Department of the Interior to create a new five - year schedule for leasing blocks of the U.S. outer continental shelf for oil and gas exploration.

Demanding non-competetive lease arrangements for drilling on public land does not prevent Oil companies from railing against government red tape.

One of those items was a five - year lease plan from the Department of Interior, for the years 2017 through 2022, which includes territories the federal government plans on auctioning off for oil and gas drilling on the outer continental shelf.

Release of the master plan comes as the federal government, even as it forges ahead on offshore wind leases, also has released plans to open nearly the entire U.S. coastline to oil and gas drilling.

Chesapeake Energy Corp. is pushing Ohio landowners to accept revised lease contracts that would help the cash - strapped driller save money while holding on to its prized oil and gas fields.

Once the tax bill passes with this important language in it, Trump needs to sign 75 year drilling leases with oil companies for the Democrats can't undo this in the future.

Schaller: Well, the thing is the Arctic slope, almost 90 percent of it is leased already to oil companies and hasn't been drilled, but they still want that little corner of the Arctic Refuge because they know if they can get in there, they can get in anywhere.

«The Minerals Management Service was set to finalize the sales of leases for exploratory oil and gas drilling off the coast of Alaska,» says Andrew Wetzler, director of the NRDC's Endangered Species Project.

Oil companies would commission their own more precise seismic surveys after they were awarded leases, says Judy Penniman of the American Petroleum Institute, the industry's Washington, D.C. — based trade association, and test drill the most promising oil deposiOil companies would commission their own more precise seismic surveys after they were awarded leases, says Judy Penniman of the American Petroleum Institute, the industry's Washington, D.C. — based trade association, and test drill the most promising oil deposioil deposits.

Earlier this year, the Obama administration placed a three - year moratorium on federal coal leasing, and closed the entire East Coast and parts of the Arctic Ocean to offshore oil drilling.

Although most oil and gas activities are now occurring only in the Beaufort Sea, primarily near Prudhoe Bay, there has been a recent lease sale in the Chukchi Sea, NOAA notes, and the agency expects oil exploration and drilling to increase there.

The story takes place in a rural New England town, where oil company workers Steve and Sue (Damon and McDormand) are trying to secure the leases needed to drill for natural gas.

On a tip, the Plainviews head to Little Boston, California, where Daniel carefully plots to purchase the Sunday family's oil - rich ranch and lease drilling rights from all surrounding land.

In order to drill in offshore federal waters, companies bid on leases that grant them the rights to oil and gas production.

But that is fine, I will just drill more oil / gas wells on my little lease because these policies simply ensure high and higer prices.

Shell has spent $ 4.5 billion and nearly seven years obtaining leases to drill for oil in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas off the Alaskan coast.

In its draft leasing plan that will set the boundaries for oil development in federal waters from 2017 to 2022, the Obama Administration proposed allowing offshore drilling along the Atlantic Coast between Virginia and Georgia.

We thought it would be useful for folks to see where all the oil and gas leases are in the county, relative to the Marcellus Shale gas drilling and fracking that has already happened.

Seismic airgun surveys are the first step toward offshore drilling, of course, but under the current five - year Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) oil and gas leasing program adopted by the Obama Administration, the Atlantic can not be considered for drilling.

They are used to concoct and justify energy and economic policies, ranging from delays and bans on oil and gas leasing and drilling, to the war on coal mining and use, and diehard opposition to hydraulic fracturing and the Keystone XL pipeline.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A new offshore oil and gas plan from the U.S. Department of the Interior blocks two drilling leases in the Arctic, but allows a new lease in Alaska's Cook Inlet and 10 new leases in the Gulf of Mexico over the next five years — a step that will worsen climate change by ensuring significant greenhouse gas pollution for the next 70 years.

A week after approval of the Final 2030 Scoping Plan in California, future Arctic Refuge lease sales for oil drilling is approved by Congress, and signed into law in the last days before the holiday.

With President - elect Donald Trump pledging to expand offshore drilling, a coalition of environmental groups called on President Obama to permanently protect federal waters from expanded oil leasing.

At retirement, I was President of a sizable energy company that included a stable of 23 renewable energy plants, an oil and gas drilling and production subsidiary, a natural gas trading subsidiary and various other diverse operations including such unlikely endeavors as airliner leasing and even a large pistachio farm.

This month, Hansen publicly defended Tim DeChristopher, the student who faces jail time for bidding on oil leases, without any money, to prevent drilling.

PHOTOS: 29 July: SeattlePI Blog: Protesters rappel from Portland bridge seeking to keep Shell icebreaker from departing The «Shell No» campaign moved to Portland on Wednesday, as demonstrators rappelling off a bridge and «kayakctivists» in the water sought to block departure of a Shell - leased icebreaker that has a vital role to play in the oil giant's Arctic drilling plans.

Oil leasing and drilling has picked up again in the Gulf of Mexico, following a hiatus after the BP Deepwater Horizon oil blowout disaster in 20Oil leasing and drilling has picked up again in the Gulf of Mexico, following a hiatus after the BP Deepwater Horizon oil blowout disaster in 20oil blowout disaster in 2010.

Senator David Vitter, Republican of Louisiana, slams a bill promoted by his own party leadership that would speed up lease sales and permitting for offshore oil drilling.

Oil and gas lease sales, royalties from mineral and energy production, Alaska's «Open for Business» initiative, renewable energy development, mineral extraction, the future of coal production from public lands, offshore renewable energy development, and oil and gas exploration and drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf were just some of the topics discussOil and gas lease sales, royalties from mineral and energy production, Alaska's «Open for Business» initiative, renewable energy development, mineral extraction, the future of coal production from public lands, offshore renewable energy development, and oil and gas exploration and drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf were just some of the topics discussoil and gas exploration and drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf were just some of the topics discussed.

We could do that — if radical greens in the Obama Administration, United Nations and eco pressure groups would end their ideological opposition to leasing, drilling, fracking, Outer Continental Shelf and Arctic National Wildlife Refuge development, Canadian oil sands, the Keystone pipeline and countless other projects.

Environmental groups and three Montana landowners sued Tuesday to cancel hundreds of recent oil and gas lease sales, saying the U.S. government's leasing of public lands is skyrocketing without understanding how all that drilling will affect water quality and climate change.

In May 2010, as oil continued to gush into the Gulf from BP's Deepwater Horizon disaster, President Obama canceled a pending lease sale that would have opened Virginia's coastline to the dangers of offshore oil drilling.

The president also calls for expanding cheap leases for oil and gas drilling on public lands, along nearly all our coastlines and on lands set aside to protect endangered wildlife.

Weiss said oil companies already hold thousands of leases to drill for oil in the Gulf of Mexico.

The world's first oil well was drilled here, on leased farmland in Titusville in 1859.

Early excerpts from the platform appear flush with Mitt Romney's positions in calling for drilling in ANWR (which would require congressional approval), opening more coastal regions to oil - and - gas leasing, and other policies.

It was pursuant to this lease sale that Shell Oil obtained the leases it wants to drill in the Chukchi Sea.

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.

(5) Whenever, before or during the drilling of a well not within the boundaries of an operating coal mine, the well operator encounters conditions of a nature which renders drilling of the bore hole or a portion thereof impossible, or more hazardous than usual, the well operator, upon verbal notice to the department, may immediately plug all or part of the bore hole, if drilling has occurred, and commence a new bore hole not more than 50 feet from the old bore hole if the location of the new bore hole does not violate section 3215 (relating to well location restrictions) and, in the case of a well subject to act of July 25, 1961 (P.L. 825, No. 359), known as the Oil and Gas Conservation Law, if the new location complies with existing laws, regulations and spacing orders and the new bore hole is at least 330 feet from the nearest lease boundary.

Since 2008, we have been challenging in court a massive Bush - era lease sale that opened nearly 30 million acres in the Chukchi Sea — previously free of oil and gas leases — to oil drilling.

More: Department of the Interior, Time, Wikipedia Department of the Interior Dept of Interior Cancels Bush Administration Oil Shale Leasing Plans Renewable Energy Development to be a «Top Priority» for Department of Interior Dept of Interior to Re-Review Offshore Oil Drilling Plans Controversial Oil & Natural Gas Leases on Utah Public Land Cancelled by Dept of Interior

via: Washington Post, NRDC Oil & Gas Exploration Judge Temporarily Halts Oil & Gas Leasing on Utah Public Lands Bush Administration to Open Public Lands Near Utah's National Parks for Natural Gas and OIl Drilling Student Monkey - Wrench Raises Bids, Then Funds, for Utah Land LeaOil & Gas Exploration Judge Temporarily Halts Oil & Gas Leasing on Utah Public Lands Bush Administration to Open Public Lands Near Utah's National Parks for Natural Gas and OIl Drilling Student Monkey - Wrench Raises Bids, Then Funds, for Utah Land LeaOil & Gas Leasing on Utah Public Lands Bush Administration to Open Public Lands Near Utah's National Parks for Natural Gas and OIl Drilling Student Monkey - Wrench Raises Bids, Then Funds, for Utah Land LeaOIl Drilling Student Monkey - Wrench Raises Bids, Then Funds, for Utah Land Leases

More: NRDC US Public Lands Bush Administration to Open Public Lands Near Utah's National Parks for Natural Gas and Oil Drilling Student Monkey - Wrencher Raises Bids, Then Funds, For Utah Land Leases New Solar Energy Applications Will Continue to be Accepted by BLM

Well, this one starts by opening up the North Slope of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas leasing, clearing the way for oil shale development on public lands, and allowing offshore drilling on heretofore off - limits areas of the Atlanta and Pacific coasts - including, of course, California.

Tags: 5 year program, Atlantic Ocean, BOEM, Bureau of Energy Management, Deepwater Horizon, Georgia, Hands Across the Sand, lease sale, methane hydrate, natural gas, North Carolina, Offshore Drilling, Oil Spill, South Carolina, Virginia

The New York Times recently shed light on yet another important aspect of gas drilling leases, that U.S. Department of Agriculture rural housing loans are being routinely granted on properties with oil and gas leases using a so - called «categorical exclusion» from the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), although such exclusions are only supposed to apply to properties without environmental risks.

Experienced in the purchase and sale of both oil and gas properties and midstream assets, the arriving group's knowledge also covers a full range of oil and gas exploration and development agreements such as leases, joint operating agreements, production sharing agreements and drilling contracts.