Ultra Deep wells are fantastically expensive, especially for a small oil and gas exploration company such as McMoran.
But these countries contain the most promising territory for exploration, so such political risks can only increase.
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The rocket is being designed to carry out the agency's future human space exploration goals, such as sending astronauts to visit an asteroid or Mars.
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Does the future of exploration lie with such privately funded efforts?
There are plaintive calls that there should be no more such exploration and that surely alternative sources can be accessed, but this avoids the underlying truth that much of the conventional easily-got onshore oil has already been pulled from the earth.
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This unlikely sounding collaboration is taking place between researchers interested in exploring Lake Vostok in Antarctica, which is sealed off below several kilometres of ice, and planetary scientists, who see such exploration as a possible dress rehearsal for a future robotic mission to Jupiter's moon Europa, whose icy surface is thought to conceal vast oceans that might harbour extraterrestrial life.
They are already pioneering exploration in neglected spots such as the seabed off West Africa and in the Arctic.
ConocoPhillips is the third largest oil company in the U.S. It operates in all sectors of the oil and natural gas industry such as exploration and production, midstream, refining and marketing, and petrochemicals.
With the debt-ceiling crisis, however, the willingness to wait until the last moment removed any chance of learning and, more to the point, there was never much of a commitment to learning on the part of many of the principal actors: over and over again we were informed that such thoughtful exploration was out of the question because of prior campaign pledges made to constituents.
Recently, we started applying our big data analytics technologies in other industries, such as seismic exploration of minerals and fundamental physics.
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We like energy companies as well, such as PTT Exploration and Production.
No such reward for exploration exists in World of Warcraft, even though you get a tiny handful of experience points for finding new areas.
The Saudi Government has less money and less need for landmark projects, some key industries - such as oil exploration and production - have been nationalised and the local workforce has developed to the point where the country needs foreign capital and expertise rather than foreign workers.
Other companies with good exploration records specialise in niches, such as extracting gas from especially diffuse fields or drilling in particular types of terrain.
"Encouraging investment by making a transparent policy (on hydrocarbons) that would cut the time spent in seeking regulatory approvals for exploration activities would be one of such efforts in increasing local production, " Mr. Moily said.
And there were stamps for the Royal Wedding, Dickens' bicentenary, and themes such as animals or space exploration.
Its real environmental impact is the result of loans it makes to big projects, such as dams, oil exploration and mines.
Hague said Argentina sought to present itself as reasonable but that recent Argentine governments had taken "a less constructive approach" in discussions on other questions, such as fishing and oil exploration.
The US space agency hopes these changes will save it money that can then be invested in exploration missions far beyond Earth, at destinations such as asteroids and Mars.
"Changing lease-sale schedules disrupts the certainty and consistency that industry needs for planning such investments for leasing and ensuing exploration and development, " Geoffrey Haddad, ConocoPhillips' manager of Alaska exploration wrote in a letter to the Interior Department dated May 3.
Luna does contract research and development, plumbing the possibilities in fields such as bomb detection and satellite oil exploration.
However, most of the concrete problems between the two countries, such as disagreements over sea-bed exploration rights and air space, remain unresolved.
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This new security situation, the ongoing reduction in tariffs and the relative low cost of labor force will be translated into an increase in foreign investment in sectors such as gold and coal mining, oil exploration and manufacturing, to name a few.
The article notes that the company has "explored such a device for years, " but that exploration is getting closer to reality now that the smartphone universe is beginning to shift in a major way.
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The distances in space are just so vast, and planetary systems even within a single galaxy are spaced so far apart, that such a concept is needed to make casual human exploration feasible.
Better, say the doubters, to spend the money on scientific missions, such as Hubble's successors, and leave exploration to the kind of robotic missions that have successfully roved about on the surfaces of Mars and Titan, one of Saturn's moons.
If it is listed, campaigners will argue that anything that might impinge on the creature's habitat, such as recently announced plans for oil and gas exploration off the Alaskan coast, must either be cancelled or put under much more rigorous scrutiny.
Former President Felipe Calderon was able to sign a law to allow exploration deals with foreign companies but political resistance makes the sealing of such contracts difficult.
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