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A: In respect to oil exploration at Summerville Bay.

Those laws date back to the early 1950's, and were meant to encourage gas and oil exploration at a time when no one seriously believed that either would be found in commercial quantities.

Not exact matches

He launched Canadian Hunter Exploration in 1973, a year characterized by an oil crisis abroad that led to shortages at gasoline pumps in the U.S. Closer to home, confrontations intensified between the federal and provincial governments over managing Alberta's energy resources.

Among the biggest issues oil - and - gas - exploration companies face in the search for new sources of hydrocarbons is putting humans or high - value assets at risk.

• BP Energy Partners will sell portfolio company Pinnacle Midstream, a Houston, Texas - based oil and gas exploration company, for at least $ 300 million, according to Reuters.

«After substantially improving their cost structures through 2015 and 2016, North American exploration and production (E&P) companies will demonstrate meaningful capital efficiency to the extent the West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil price is above $ 50 per barrel and the Henry Hub natural gas price is at least $ 3.00 per MMBtu,» Moody's said.

«What we're seeing is a textbook implosion with regard to exploration and production capital spending domestically because the industry was leveraged to very high oil prices,» says Bill Herbert, a senior researcher at Houston oil and gas investment bank Simmons & Co..

The choices are that much starker at large international oil giants like Chevron that rely heavily on their massive budgets to fund exploration projects crucial to finding new energy sources.

«Low oil prices have significantly reduced operator spending on exploration - particularly in deep water, which is very costly,» said Cindy Giglio, an analyst at IHS Markit.

Below, take a look at the daily chart of SPDR Oil & Gas Exploration and Production ETF ($ XOP):

Looking ahead into 2018, I am keeping a close eye on the energy sector, where the ability of US exploration and production (E&P) companies to grow oil production — at half the price of oil from just a few years ago — remains a competitive advantage for these firms.

As noted in an earlier paragraph, when investors consider exploration and production company stocks, they are increasingly looking for companies that can find and produce oil and gas efficiently and at low cost.

Kuwait Energy Plc is planning an initial public offering in London that could value the oil and gas exploration business at as much as $ 1 billion, according to people familiar Continue Reading

Chesapeake Energy Corp. (CHK - $ 6) The downturn in oil and gas prices since late 2014 has created an opportunity to buy well - managed exploration and production companies at discounted values.

Ishiguro's parents initially assumed their move to England would be temporary (his father worked in oil exploration in the North Sea) but they remained, and gave their son what he describes as a «very typical... southern English upbringing,» although only Japanese was spoken at home.

Even before Trump officially opened his high - profile review last spring of federal lands protected as national monuments, the Department of Interior was focused on the potential for oil and gas exploration at a protected Utah site, internal agency documents show.

In the decade prior to the APF's creation, the initial $ 900 million windfall from oil exploration licences — equivalent to more than five times the entire Alaskan budget at the time — had flowed into and out of state coffers.

Speaking at a media interaction in Accra, the Head of Policy Unit of ACEP, Dr. Ishmael Ackah said the decision will put policy makers in a tight corner, since oil exploration will commence in some other regions as well.

Apache Corp., a Houston - based oil and gas exploration and production company, funded the research at Rice and licensed the technology.

«We found that nearly a billion metric tons of above - ground carbon stocks in Peru are at imminent risk for emission into the atmosphere due to land uses such as fossil fuel oil exploration, cattle ranching, oil palm plantations and gold mining,» Asner said.

Obtaining the images usually requires a strong bond between individuals at a university and in industry to persuade to companies to release the data for scientific purposes, observes senior exploration geologist Richard Davies of the 3DLab at Cardiff University in Cardiff, U.K. «Individuals that are presently spearheading it in academia have usually worked in the oil and gas industry in a previous life,» says Davies, who worked for ExxonMobil for eight years.

Although Britain insists it will not contravene restrictions against oil, gas and mineral exploration in Antarctica, Robin Churchill, an expert in international law at the University of Dundee in England, says the move has the potential to be «quite destabilizing.»

«As we begin to run out of oil and gas, there's going to be increased exploration for areas where it is not being extracted,» says Hugh Ducklow a biologist at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass. «The treaty is going to be vulnerable.»

Already, such thawing Arctic ice — whether underground or at sea — has further opened up the territory to exploration for resources, particularly oil.

The arrival of hurricane season on June 1 has forced BP to develop a more flexible oil collection system, Kent Wells, a BP senior vice president for exploration and production, said Monday at a press briefing.

The Guardian reported that the Brazilian government has sold 80 blocks for oil exploration and drilling at the mouth of the river.

The Arctic is in danger — it's warming at twice the rate of the rest of the Earth, and offshore oil and gas exploration are threatening its pristine natural habitats.

Such began my exploration in getting back to basics — today coconut oil and manuka honey are just at home in my bathroom as in the kitchen.

Set at the turn of the previous century in the early days of oil exploration, the film shows grimy prospector Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day - Lewis) climbing from dark shafts into the blinding desert sunlight.

Set at the turn of the previous century in the early days of oil exploration, the film show..

Eligible small oil and gas corporations (expenditures of no more than $ 15 million) will no longer be able to treat the first $ 1 million of Canadian Development Expenses (CDE — deducted at 30 %) as Canadian Exploration Expenses (CEE) after 2018 — deducted at 100 %).

Probably one of the best ways to get a tax deduction, at least from a tax standpoint, is when you invest in oil and gas exploration partnerships.

Production at Summerland had ended, Elwood was winding down, and to find new fields oil companies carried out seismic exploration of the Channel using explosives, a controversial practice that local fishermen claimed harmed their catch.

Butzer's solo exhibition at Metro Pictures introduces his exploration of abstraction in a committed and meditative approach, bringing together a series of oil on canvas paintings in which the arresting and potent impact of the color black prevails the surface.

Cesare Lucchini's second exhibition at rosenfeld porcini pursues his exploration of certain dramatic events, which have and continue to afflict contemporary society such as the oil slick disaster in Mexico (2010), the boat tragedies off the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, and African conflicts — more specifically the use of child soldiers.

Nancy has had many awards in her career and has been juried into international competitions such as the annual Salon International, the American Impressionist Society Annual Exhibit, and Oil Painters of America.In 2008, she was honored to be selected as one of two painters from the Eastern Shore to be part of a show titled «Making Art: Explorations in Process» at the Academy Art Museum in Easton, Maryland which included notable American artists from the 19th and 20th centuries and works borrowed from major museums including the National Gallery of Art and the Brandywine River Museum.

I'm smiling at the irony that oil exploration has become more difficult from what the use of oil has contributed to.

These same Sanctuaries are now at risk to harm from oil exploration and future spills.

New analysis released today by Oil Change International finds that World Bank Group finance for projects that included exploration for new fossil fuel resources reached a new high in FY2013, at nearly $ 1 billion out of the $ 2.7 billion spent in total for fossil fuel projects.

And nobody knows better than the oil industry, which continues to drill wells at record depths as part of everyday oil exploration.

Last week, the Obama administration announced that oil and gas exploration on the outer continental shelf would be «off the table» for the states of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, at least for the time being.

At the Brazilian National Oil and Gas Agency pressuring the government for more transparency and responsibility, and highlighting the impacts of oil and gas exploration on climate, biodiversity and traditional communitiOil and Gas Agency pressuring the government for more transparency and responsibility, and highlighting the impacts of oil and gas exploration on climate, biodiversity and traditional communitioil and gas exploration on climate, biodiversity and traditional communities.

Reduce dependency on (imported) fossil fuels (balance of payments, reliance on potentially unfriendly or unstable nations as suppliers, high cost at the pump, all problems as seen from US viewpoint): — encourage nuclear power generation (cut red tape)-- encourage energy savings and improved efficiency projects (tax breaks)-- encourage basic research into new (non fossil fuel) resources (subsidies)-- encourage imports from friendly neighbor, Canada (Keystone pipeline)-- encourage local oil and gas exploration («drill, baby, drill»)-- encourage «clean coal» projects (tax incentives)-- set goal to become energy independent within ten years

By opening up the mid-Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico and north coast of Alaska to new offshore oil drilling and exploration, the Minerals Management Service not only places our environment at risk, it threatens the livelihoods of millions of Americans who rely on clean, healthy, oil - free oceans and beaches to support fishing, tourism and other industries.»

Alvarado, who arrived to his inauguration ceremony at the Plaza de la Democracy on a hydrogen bus, campaigned on modernizing and electrifying older modes of transport, promoting research and development in hydrogen and biofuels, and banning oil and gas exploration in the country.

From a recent article in the LA Times about Big Oil's calculations, Mobil oil's engineers were calculating for climate warming sea - level rises in Canadian drilling sites in 1996: One year earlier, though, engineers at Mobil Oil were concerned enough about climate change to design and build a collection of exploration and production facilities along the Nova Scotia coast that made structural allowances for rising temperatures and sea leveOil's calculations, Mobil oil's engineers were calculating for climate warming sea - level rises in Canadian drilling sites in 1996: One year earlier, though, engineers at Mobil Oil were concerned enough about climate change to design and build a collection of exploration and production facilities along the Nova Scotia coast that made structural allowances for rising temperatures and sea leveoil's engineers were calculating for climate warming sea - level rises in Canadian drilling sites in 1996: One year earlier, though, engineers at Mobil Oil were concerned enough about climate change to design and build a collection of exploration and production facilities along the Nova Scotia coast that made structural allowances for rising temperatures and sea leveOil were concerned enough about climate change to design and build a collection of exploration and production facilities along the Nova Scotia coast that made structural allowances for rising temperatures and sea levels.

Ignoring the huge environmental impact of exploration, spillages, refining and usage of oil for a second... We have to import vast amounts of oil from all over the world, some from particularly unstable areas, at a high financial cost.

Opening our coastal areas to oil exploration would put our communities and coastal economies at risk of catastrophic spills.

NRG Energy has partnered with JX Nippon Oil & Gas Exploration to develop a commercial - scale post-combustion CCS project at NRG's WA Parish generating station southwest of Houston, Texas.

Today, Oil Change International released a comprehensive report on fossil fuel exploration and production subsidies in the U.S. — Cashing in on All of the Above: U.S. Fossil Fuel Production Subsidies under Obama — which demonstrates that at a time when we need urgent action on climate change more than ever, the U.S. government is channeling huge and growing amounts of money to increasing discovery and production of oil, gas, and coOil Change International released a comprehensive report on fossil fuel exploration and production subsidies in the U.S. — Cashing in on All of the Above: U.S. Fossil Fuel Production Subsidies under Obama — which demonstrates that at a time when we need urgent action on climate change more than ever, the U.S. government is channeling huge and growing amounts of money to increasing discovery and production of oil, gas, and cooil, gas, and coal.