Sentences with phrase «water drilling»

At the site, they used a special hot water drilling system to dig into the ice.

For the record, I support the deep water drilling if it is, ironically, thoroughly supervised and regulated by civil authorities.

Right now the oil industry has pulled back on drilling, especially deep water drilling.

As the Montara oil spill showed, more competence and coordination is needed in deep water drilling in Australia.

Representation of a U.S. independent oil and gas company in connection with the equity financing of its acquisition of reserves and a shallow water drilling program in the Gulf of Mexico.

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President Obama's deep - water drilling moratorium and new regulations on shall - water rigs haven't helped to reduce their anxiety.

The galley is on the left, hot water drill equipment in the center left, surface infrastructure tower mid right, and the seismic sled on the right.

Reteaming with Mark Wahlberg from his brilliant Lone Survivor, director Peter Berg adapts the true story of the worst deep water drilling disaster in history.

Chad Carpenter, a hot water drill system specialist from the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, secures the drill frame.

Gas drilling contaminates drinking water Drilling for shale gas may pose a safety hazard if there are water wells nearby.

Oil companies have advanced the technology for deep - water drilling elsewhere in the world, but those operations are unfit to contend with Arctic conditions.

Deep - water drilling licences will likely become much harder to come by, not only in the U.S. but in most developed countries, including Canada.

During my own most recent trip, I visited a village water drilling site and a prison, both targeted with US - made precision - guided weapons.

«When innovating this method, we took into account three important aspects — namely the local water driller's knowledge and role, the cost to drill for water and access to water with low amounts of arsenic,» Bhattacharya says.

Hot water drilling still posed challenges: A borehole filled with water would quickly refreeze, and the hole could still collapse shut under the sheer weight of the surrounding ice sheet.

The risks are high that there will be no action on many of the issues arising from the Gulf spill, Boesch explains in a commentary article in this week's Nature (see «Deep - water drilling remains a risky business»).

Barnwell's three businesses (oil and gas, contract water drilling, and real estate / land investment) have no synergy.

Hercules Offshore is another leading shallow - water drilling services provider in the GOM.

Then fracking and oil sands and deep water drilling brought new supplies on stream and we got an oil price crash instead.

Shallow water drilling activities can continue to move forward, under the Interior Department's order, if operators comply with all safety and environmental requirements.

Negotiating terms for the construction, leasing and operation of numerous deep water drilling units including two semi-submersible drilling units to be built in Korea and operated in Brazil, two semi-submersible units to be constructed in a European yard and two drilling vessels to be constructed in China and completed in Singapore.

Though oil companies have done intermediate wildcatting work in the Falklands since the late 1990s, new deep water drilling technology offers the potential for tapping into previously inaccessible areas.

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The galley is on the left, hot water drill equipment in the center left, surface infrastructure tower mid right, and the seismic sled on the right.

When petroleum leaks from a ship or a deep - water drilling operation, «it tends to break up into tiny droplets that don't all end up on the surface of the ocean,» says Thomas Azwell, an environmental scientist at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, who was not involved in the work.

Amid the aftermath of the failed Times Square terrorist attack and the lethal floods in Tennessee — not to mention the president finally noticing there is a deep water drilling disaster in the Gulf of Mexico — the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming held a hearing for Democrats to attempt to gloss over fatal flaws exposed in global warming «consensus science» by the Climategate scandal.

Hot - water drill system specialist Chad Carpenter, from the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, prepares an ultraviolet radiation container.

The camera encountered the same branch at 2,300 feet; the hot water drill had failed to solve the problem.

It's even tried deep water drilling in the high Arctic.

Now that the leak is plugged, the reasoning goes, perhaps a more organized effort to address the environmental ills the spill brought to light — oil dependence, the dangers of deep water drilling, etc — can indeed capture the public's attention.

When capital gets redeployed from deep - water drilling, where do you think it's going to go?

The recent oil shale boom was powered mostly by small firms because larger multinationals like Exxon and BP are structured for big payoff, technically - difficult projects like deep water drilling and Arctic exploration.

Zenimura also persuaded the Butte fire department to hold its water drills in the ballpark so the grass would benefit.

Last month, a U.S. team successfully used a hot - water drill — a technology designed to prevent contamination — to reach subglacial Lake Whillans.

A hot - water drill is the centerpiece of the project.

In 2000, the US Department of the Interior's Minerals Management Service (MMS) published a report warning that there were several difficulties connected with deep - water well control, that experience in this area was «limited» and with many rigs having very high oil production rates, a blowout could be «a potential show - stopper» for deep - water drilling in general.

Such technology is rapidly becoming standard for ultradeep - water drilling.

That the world's biggest oil companies share standards for ultradeep - water drilling is encouraging; it means there are no cowboys out there, winging it with untried technologies.

The hot - water drill will be used to make a 1.9 - mile (3 - kilometer) borehole through the ice and into Lake Ellsworth.

In this more recent project at Whillans Lake, the team used a clean hot - water drill and took other precautions against contaminating the samples.

To feed uncontaminated water to the hot - water drill, a 40 - foot shipping container held a water purification system with filters down to 0.2 microns and then a high - intensity ultraviolet lamp «that blasted any organisms that were still present,» Christner says.

Using great care to avoid contamination from surface microbes, a team led by Brent Christner, an associate professor of biological sciences at Louisiana State University, used a hot - water drill to reach the lake in January, 2013.

Clean subglacial access: prospects for future deep hot - water drilling.

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