Sentences with phrase «oil exploration moving»

As more industries like mining and oil exploration move further out to sea into deeper waters, these gliders will be active watch dogs to survey the effects of those operations both before and after they get started.

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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.

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.»

Greenpeace said earlier this month it would encourage British landowners to join together in legally opposing fracking, a move that could strengthen the opposition to exploration and development of shale oil and gas.

Extracting and moving oil and gas is capital - intensive, so this debt is necessary for exploration and production (E&P) companies, and transportation companies, in particular.

Could you or one of your grad students: — RRB - make any guesstimate about my «undergravel filter» scenario — speculating wildly that oil and gas exploration may have left unfilled boreholes intersecting permeable strata, so warm water could move down, across, and back up along with bubbles where the structure happened to favor that?

Here's where the rubber hits the road: even while the Interior Department was slowly taking steps to give these bears ESA protection, the Bush Administration opened almost 30 million acres of polar bear habitat to oil and gas exploration, a move that by their own admission threaten polar bears.

These threatened species also face the prospect of offshore drilling in the Arctic after the Obama Administration recently approved a number of plans to move forward on oil exploration.

New Zealand's government on Thursday moved to burnish its environmental credentials by announcing a ban on all new offshore oil and gas exploration permits in a bid to reduce carbon emissions.

«By proposing to open up nearly the entire [outer continental shelf] for potential oil and gas exploration, the United States can advance the goal of moving from aspiring for energy independence to attaining energy dominance,» said Interior Counselor for Energy Policy Vincent DeVito, in a press release.

This would imply that investment in exploration, development, and extraction of new sources of oil and gas could move from the «controversial» category to «misaligned» in a future refinement of the methodology.

«By proposing to open up nearly the entire OCS [Outer Continental Shelf] for potential oil and gas exploration, the United States can advance the goal of moving from aspiring for energy independence to attaining energy dominance,» explained Vincent DeVito, the Interior Department's Counselor for Energy Policy.

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Layoffs in oil and gas and dramatically reduced exploration budgets have meant that fewer people are moving into the area so the Tenant demand while solid, is now more balanced against supply.