Sentences with phrase «oil leases in»

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.

Not exact matches

A lawsuit filed Monday claims the Trump administration ignored policies meant to protect the greater sage grouse when the government sold oil and gas leases across 475 square miles (1,230 square kilometers) in Montana, Wyoming, Utah and Nevada.

Obama this week moved to permanently ban future oil and gas leasing in parts of the Arctic and Atlantic.

Recent federal lease sales have generated a tepid response, said Imran Khan, who leads Wood Mackenzie's commercial valuation team for oil and gas projects in the Gulf of Mexico.

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.

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 Justice Department indicted McClendon in a conspiracy in which two unnamed companies agreed not to bid against each other for oil and gas leases in northwest Oklahoma between late 2007 and early 2012, a charge he denied.

How could a little - known British firm with two employees and no producing assets end up owning the largest oil lease ever issued in the Canadian Arctic?

While the Obama administration put commercial leasing on hold, then, elsewhere in the federal government people have been feverishly researching ways to facilitate the development of America's oilsands and oil shale.

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.

The Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act requires the Secretary of the Interior, through BOEM, to prepare and maintain a schedule of proposed oil and gas lease sales in federal waters, indicating the size, timing, and location of auctions that would best meet national energy needs for the five - year period following its approval.

They were in the process of renovating their modest but beautifully situated home on tree - canopied Carter Road when land men from Houston - based Cabot Oil & Gas, a midsize player in the energy - exploration industry, came knocking on their door to inquire about leasing the mineral rights to their three and a half acres of land.

When landmen from Cabot Oil & Gas came knocking on doors along the rutted dirt grade of Carter Road in Dimock, Pa., last year, they sold a promise many residents in the farming community were eager to hear: Sign a gas lease and the land might finally pay for itself.

The Trump administration wants to ease restrictions on oil and gas leasing and other activities across a huge swath of the American West that were put in place to protect an imperiled bird.

The Final Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Oil and Gas Lease Sale Program for 2012 to 2017 includes a lease sale in the Beaufort Sea Planning Area (Sale 242) in 2017.

One other news item of note from Marathon Oil this quarter was that the company announced it leased 250,000 acres of land in new resource plays over the past year, including a large position in the emerging Louisiana Austin Chalk play.

An oil and gas lease sale allows qualified bidders to compete for exclusive rights to explore blocks in federal waters off Alaska.

Three oil and gas lease sales are scheduled for the Alaska OCS under the Program - the Chukchi Sea in 2016; Cook Inlet in 2016; and the Beaufort Sea in 2017.

Latest cases in point: BP, now fighting a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, after one of its leased rigs exploded and sank.

Trump proposes easing oil, gas leasing restrictions in West Matthew Brown, The Associated Press

«I applaud today's announcement by Secretary Ryan Zinke to offer the largest offshore oil and gas lease sale in U.S. history.

After serving as a Navy pilot in World War II, he sold «everything we owned [«we» being a wife and three children], including the house and car» to buy California oil leases.

At this time, however, little oversight or transparency exists to ensure oil profits are spent in a socially and economically responsible manner and there is little insight into the details of leasing arrangements.

In 2010, East Resources struck a $ 4.7 billion deal to sell its leases and assets to Royal Dutch Shell, the oil - and - gas giant that had taken an interest in the MarcelluIn 2010, East Resources struck a $ 4.7 billion deal to sell its leases and assets to Royal Dutch Shell, the oil - and - gas giant that had taken an interest in the Marcelluin the Marcellus.

The new law would bar leases for oil and gas exploration or production in New York waters, including in Long Island, New York City and the Hudson River.

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.

Environmentalists were stunned this summer when they learned that Iowa Pacific Holdings, which leases / owns the railroad line from Saratoga to Tahawus, was considering storing empty oil tankers along an unused section of the tracks in Essex and Hamilton Counties.

The four - page notice of an environmental review, scheduled for publication in tomorrow's Federal Register, sets the stage for oil and gas leasing within the 19 - million - acre refuge.

, who called on the Government Accountability Office to look into the federal coal leasing program in 2012, said, «Leading on climate change means leading by example in how we manage the oil, gas and coal resources that belong to the American people.»

Many bidders thought the asking price was too high, the leases too short and the fields weren't that lucrative given the low oil prices in the Americas.

After studying high - resolution satellite imagery and compiling records from local and regional government agencies, the authors concluded that all land leased for palm oil production in Indonesia added up to an area the size of Greece.

The bill's major provisions would, among other things, impose a national renewable electricity standard, overhaul federal financing for «clean energy» projects, establish a suite of efficiency measures, mandate new federal electricity - transmission siting power, and allow wider oil and gas leasing in the eastern Gulf of Mexico.

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.

Off Alaska, for instance, oil company bids for leases in the Arctic Chukchi and Beaufort seas since 2005 have totaled about $ 2.7 billion.

The U.S. Interior Department has sold leases for offshore oil and gas development in the Arctic Ocean throughout the Bush administration.

This would have subjected those lease sales, such as the sale of oil and gas leases covering nearly 46,000 square miles (120, 000 square kilometers) in the Chukchi Sea off the northwest coast of Alaska, to additional regulatory oversight, he added.

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.

Last month, the administration excluded oil and gas leases in the same regions for the next five years, but the controversial seismic surveys may continue as planned.

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf on Thursday signed an executive order reinstating a moratorium on new leases for oil and natural gas development in state parks and forests

He sponsored legislation to ensure that states and tribes have a say in changes to federal coal, oil and gas royalties or leasing policy.

Have processed oils been foisted on us through the use of bad science (or at lease selective comparative analysis), and is olive oil corrupted with mob money making it, in many cases not olive oil at all, and certainly no virgin?

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.

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The firm is primarily focused on the natural gas operations in East Texas and North Louisiana, and the Permian and Delaware Basins of West Texas and Southeastern New Mexico under lease for oil and gas exploration and development.

Early last year the acquired an oil / gas E&P that has leases primarily in the Eagle Ford Shale in Texas.

The first classes were held in leased space in the Sinclair Oil Building, located at 909 South Boston Avenue in downtown Tulsa.

Summerland Offshore Oil Field is a separate field in the Santa Barbara Channel about one and a half miles offshore, but within the 3 - mile limit inside of which oil leasing is subject to state rather than federal regulatiOil Field is a separate field in the Santa Barbara Channel about one and a half miles offshore, but within the 3 - mile limit inside of which oil leasing is subject to state rather than federal regulatioil leasing is subject to state rather than federal regulation.

It was no surprise, then, when President Trump and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke proposed a new Draft Five Year Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program pushing for the «largest number of (oil) lease sales in U.S. History.&raqOil and Gas Leasing Program pushing for the «largest number of (oil) lease sales in U.S. History.&raqoil) lease sales in U.S. History.»