Very few companies have the balance sheet or stomach for ultra-deep exploration.
Deep Ocean Exploration and Research, with funding from Google's Eric Schmidt, is building two three-person submersibles.
The positive growth should be driven by rising demand for liquid natural gas and growth in deep water exploration and production.
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"NASA has been making steady progress toward realizing the president's goal of deep space exploration, while doing so in a more affordable way, " NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver said.
Deep space exploration is where NASA belongs.
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But with many laboratory tasks being automated, there should also be scope to begin new activities, and the partners believe one key role for the ISS going forward will be as a development platform for deep space exploration.
That mission quickly turned into a desire to pioneer a new wave of winged submarines that could reach record depths and revolutionize deep-sea exploration.
Since then Ballard has leveraged his Titanic fame into a small empire that includes education, television and book production and, most important, deep-sea exploration.
One place where Western oil companies have found open doors is in deep-water exploration, because state-backed oil companies in Russia, China and the Middle East have little experience drilling these tricky wells.
When students understand the negative impacts of mountain top mining or deep water oil exploration, examples chronicled in the book, they are able to make connections between environmental issues in the world and how they live collectively.
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Furthermore, so long as it remains government-owned, the company risks being attacked by Brazil's vocal nationalists over its plans to expand its foreign operations, taking advantage of its prowess in deep-water exploration, instead of investing at home.
Today's commercial rockets can lift only about 10 tons into space, far short of what is needed to enable deep-space exploration returning to the Moon, and later venturing on to Mars the things that are and should be NASA's core mission.
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Europe is looking to play a significant role in America's plans for the manned exploration of deep space.
It will require renewed deep sea drilling and exploration though.
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If approved, it will grant a Kingston, Jamaica-based International Seabed Authority (ISA) the power to regulate deep-sea oil exploration, and seabed mining.
However, they will no longer have the incentive to invest further in exploration and deep drilling, particularly in the technically more complex fields in the Amazon.
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If ratified by Congress, it will grant a Kingston, Jamaica-based International Seabed Authority (ISA) the power to regulate deep-sea oil exploration, seabed mining, and fishing rights.
"Robotics is playing a key role aboard the International Space Station and will be critical in our future human exploration of deep space, " said Michael Gazarik, director of NASA's Space Technology Program.
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The WDCS says one problem is the expansion of oil and gas exploration into the deep seas and the resulting growth in seismic testing to find fossil fuel deposits.
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He decided to transfer his exploration budget from the Ultra Deep play to onshore shale deposits instead.
In the spring of 2007 Odyssey Marine Exploration, an American-deep-sea treasure hunting company based in Tampa, recovered 594, 000 silver coins from a Spanish shipwreck.
New financial players, like South Africa's Nufcor Group and Evolution Markets, a New York-based over the counter brokerage firm, have become active in uranium contracts in the last couple of years, while deep-pocketed investors have financed new uranium exploration operations.
But we are willing to build a great partnership in the field of energy, either what refers to the exploration of the pre-salt deep oil reserves, as also the explorations of renewable sources of energies and clean energy that could guarantee for all mankind and for the humanity and for Brazil and for the U.S. a better improvement of its development in a sustained way.
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In recent public statements McMoran has been identified as the clear leader in shallow water exploration of the Gulf of Mexico ultra deep.
Ultra Deep wells are fantastically expensive, especially for a small oil and gas exploration company such as McMoran.
The participants were unanimous in expressing their deep concern to the Congolese Government regarding the granting of a concession for oil exploration in an area of Virunga National Park.
Mr Cameron says he does not want this dive to the deep to be a one-off, and wants to use it as a platform for ocean exploration.
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