Sentences with phrase «opened offshore areas»

The newly opened offshore areas are estimated to have as much as 17 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.

As a candidate, President - Elect Trump pledged to pursue an energy approach that would include «opening federal lands for oil and gas production, opening offshore areas, and revoking policies that are imposing unnecessary restrictions on innovative and new exploration technologies.»

Not exact matches

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.

The country had initially set June 21 as the date to open bids for 11 new blocks, located in border areas with Iran and Kuwait, and in offshore Gulf waters.

«If we can open up more areas offshore, studies have shown there is more effort involved in a more exposed environment,» Kelly says.

Former Vice President Al Gore and Gov. Andrew Cuomo today denounced the Trump administration's proposal to open up new areas to offshore drilling, and the governor announced that the state would formally request that New York be excluded from any federal move to expand offshore drilling.

Gore and Cuomo are speaking out against the Trump administration's plans to open up new areas to offshore drilling.

Marsh creation or «dredging» uses sediment from the Mississippi River, nearby water bottoms or offshore shoals to build land in shallow, open water areas, typically where land has been lost.

Just a few weeks prior to the BP oil spill, President Obama announced that more areas would be opened up for offshore drilling, though a compromise was made which kept several areas the oil industry wanted access to off limits.

Obama's recent opening of new offshore areas for oil and gas exploration, the recent Gulf oil spill, and the approval of a wind farm offshore from Cape Cod, Mass., bring energy to the forefront once again, and motivate us to consider carefully where government policies are taking American citizens and the world.

Supply, cost, environmental consequences - these are among the central features of debate over energy policy in the U.S. Those who want to open up more areas to drilling - on land and offshore - and expand the use of fracking to extract natural gas from deep underground argue that we must reduce our dependence on foreign oil.

This includes announcing a withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, repealing the Clean Power Plan, rolling back vehicle fuel economy standards, attempting to rescind rules on methane emissions from oil and gas production on federal lands, ending the moratorium on coal leasing on federal lands, and opening additional offshore areas to oil and gas leasing.

It means making tough decisions about opening new offshore areas for oil and gas development.

And that in turn has opened up previously inaccessible offshore areas to oil and gas exploration and development.

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.

«Hywind can be used for water depths up to 800 metres, thus opening up areas that so far have been inaccessible for offshore wind.