Sentences with phrase «oil exploration plan»

An alliance of environmental and Alaska - based community groups are challenging the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management's approval of Shell's oil exploration plan for drilling this summer in the Chukchi Sea.

Oil India Ltd has proposed an oil exploration plan that would involve seismic surveying using explosives and airguns along the bed of the Brahmaputra.

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That could throw a wrench in plans for the oilsands, which require high oil prices to remain profitable, and crimp much of the manic exploration activity in mining.

The Trump Interior Department announced Thursday plans to offer blocks in the Arctic, Atlantic and Pacific oceans for oil and gas exploration in an ambitious new five - year offshore lease plan.

US - focused oil and gas exploration company Target Energy has announced plans for a $ 3.6 million capital raising, a farm - in agreement for a project in South Texas and changes to its board.

Successful bidders who are awarded an OCS lease may then submit an exploration plan to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to obtain approval to explore those leased tracts for oil and gas resources.

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

The Governor's action to protect New York's waters from oil and gas exploration was prompted by the Trump administration's plan to vastly expand offshore drilling in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

Yet they also acknowledge the need for political mobilization given the increased likelihood that Yasuni will again be considered open to oil exploration — what Ecuador's President Rafael Correa has repeatedly characterized as his only plan B alternative if global funding doesn't come through.

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO --(MARKET WIRE)-- 06/28/10 — Dillco Fluid Services, Inc., a provider of oilfield services to the domestic onshore oil and gas industry, today announced it has entered into an Agreement and Plan Of Merger and Reorganization (the «agreement») with Denver - based Aspen Exploration Corporation (ASPN:...).

Not only does Greenland plan to go on with oil and gas exploration (11 prospecting licenses have been granted in the past two years between the 59th and 71st parallels, according to AFP), it has seen an upswing in licenses for minerals such as gold, diamonds, rubies, iron, zink, lead and uranium.

I'll be seeking reaction to the ideas in the document from other experts considering the real - time disaster, the unfolding investigation of the incident and plans to prevent future blowouts as oil exploration and development continues in deep waters, from Newfoundland to Brazil.

The post doesn't mention the new road to the Pacific or the ethanol plant and sugarcane plantations; or the planned road from Cruzeiro do Sul, Brazil to Pulcallpa, Peru and the multiple big hydro - energy dam constructions it will support; or the new Peruvian oil leases in indigenous reserves; or the BR$ 35 million worth of oil exploration in the Juruá watershed in Acre; or the Madeira River complex of big hydroelectric projects in Rondonia near Bolivia.

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.

Some outlets have incorrectly reported that the World Bank Group will eliminate only their finance for fossil fuel exploration, but it's even bigger than that: the World Bank described it as a commitment to end «upstream oil and gas finance,» which means they're planning to phase out all of their extraction - related finance.

The Governor's action to protect New York's waters from oil and gas exploration was prompted by the Trump administration's plan to vastly expand offshore drilling in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

The Gulf of Mexico is still under a drilling moratorium after the BP oil spill but plans to step up deep - water exploration on the other side of the world, in the South China Sea, remain largely unchanged.

Shell's plan also compounds the impacts belugas in the Chukchi and Beaufort already face from nearshore development and oil exploration.

(08/07/2009) Despite violent protests by indigenous groups over plans to expand oil and gas exploration in the Peru's Amazon rainforest, energy investments in the South American country are expected to increase to $ 1.5 billion in both 2009 and 2010, reports Reuters.

Today, President Obama announced a new offshore oil drilling and exploration plan.

With the Croatian government's recent announcement of their plans to to open up the Adriatic to oil exploration, Zelena akcija / Friends of the Earth Croatia along with a number of other civil society groups this month officially launched a campaign to save the sea around Croatia, Montenegro and Italy from oil drilling.

The senior White House official told me that they were exploring an energy deal that would include a «serious» and «short - term» increase in domestic production — perhaps opening up for oil exploration places like the waters off the coast of California — that would appease the «Drill, baby, drill» crowd, while also adopting a cap - and - trade plan that could take effect one or two (or more) years after 2012, which is when Obama's current plan would start.

«Shell's revised Exploration Plan sets us on the path toward climate catastrophe as the latest science says Arctic oil must be kept in the ground in order to have a chance at keeping the planet safe.

For example, the Department of the Interior reviews exploration plans and oil spill response plans, the Environmental Protection Agency reviews water pollution plans, and, until recently, air pollution plans, and the National Marine Fisheries Service reviews how activities will affect marine mammals like whales and seals.

The demonstration protested the oil company's exploration activities and plans to drill in the Arctic.

The IWC meeting in Morocco may have seen the failure of plans to compromise on commercial whaling, to bring Japan and other international law objectors back into the fold, but there is some more interesting news coming from Agadir: More whales are being killed by pollution, getting caught in nets and other threats than by commercial whaling; and, Russian oil exploration in the Pacific is threatening critically endangered grey whales.

Before I get to my latest limerick, here are some other bloggers who are aggravated by plans to open coastal waters to oil exploration: skippy, John Amato, Melissa McEwan, Taylor Marsh, and Jonathan Turley.

Great expertise in oil and gas field development planning, oil sands exploration, modeling and reporting