The seaport also provides supplies and services to more than half of all offshore drilling operations.
Moblize is a Chevron Ventures-backed service that unifies information in oil and gas drilling operations.
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The Edinburgh-based firm said drilling operations were taking place at its Sapele-1 well in the Douala Basin.
Apache joins the likes of BG Group, Statoil, Shell and Transocean in closing offices and curtailing drilling operations.
Most recently, blockage from drilling fluid associated with drilling operations prevented any meaningful interpretation of this much-hyped discovery.
The industry has moved to increase the amount of wastewater recycled in drilling operations, currently at over 70% by some estimates.
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Shares in the Edinburgh-based oil exploration firm Cairn Energy fell on Tuesday on negative news over its drilling operations in Greenland.
Wastewater injection from drilling operations has been linked to seismic events in the past, but these have typically been much smaller quakes.
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It also does not have any full-fledged operations in the country, with its exploratory drilling operations being the only expenses until now.
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Other energy companies are doing much the same, focusing the booming domestic drilling and also high-risk drilling operations at deep-water drill sites.
There has been an extremely long winter in much of the northeast and the Midwest, while a reduction in drilling operations has also reduced supply.
In a 20-minute excerpt from hours of examination carried out in 2011, Mr Hayward insisted that cost-cutting at BP had not affected its drilling operations.
Drilling services giant Halliburton released its U.S. quarterly earnings report this week, highlighting record revenue generation due to expanded land-based drilling operations and international activities.
In Pennsylvania, seven municipalities have filed a lawsuit challenging a 2012 state law that takes away their ability to control gas drilling operations through local zoning.
Shell contractors are required to take a systematic view of risk in drilling operations and to put management systems and mitigations plans in place before work begins.
They were protesting over the oil explorer's Arctic drilling operations.
He said the drilling operations would attempt in the coming weeks to acquire samples from the veins and the concretions for study in the robot's CheMin and Sam labs.
Earlier in the day, the court heard recorded testimony from former chief executive Tony Hayward, and from the former head of drilling operations, Kevin Lacy, who appeared to contradict one another.
Pursuant to the terms of the plea agreement, BP has also agreed to take additional actions, enforceable by the court, to further enhance the safety of drilling operations in the Gulf of Mexico.
Since the April 20 explosions and fire, BP is carefully evaluating the subsea blow-out preventers used in all our drilling operations world-wide, including the testing and maintenance procedures of our drilling contractors using the devices.
The fuel on board the rig is used to power equipment and is not the result of the drilling operations Shell conducted off the North Slope, on the opposite side of the vast state from where the Kulluk now rests.
It did not involve drilling operations.
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The two attorneys helped negotiate a settlement between Chevron and Ecuador in the 1990s that released it from any liability for billions of gallons of oil waste left over from its drilling operations in that country in the 1970s and 1980s.
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The criticism Thursday came a day after two of the nation's biggest oil and gas companies made peace with some national and regional environmental groups, agreeing to go through an independent review of their shale oil and gas drilling operations in the Northeast.
The benefits we believed would always be there, no matter how large the trawls, how long the nets, how numerous the hooks for catching ocean wildlife, or how many, how long or how deep the pipelines, drilling operations, seismic surveys or production rigs.
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While it is true that some who live near drilling operations in parts of the country have become disenchanted with the process, the reality is that, even in controversial areas in the Northeast, surveys consistently show that more folks approve of the industry than those who oppose it.
Another change was that the importance of process safety -- focusing on an operation as a whole, rather than small individual accidents -- was one of the lessons of the Texas City disaster and has now been emphasised in the drilling operations as well as BP's refineries, Mr Morrison said.
About one-third of that order is for high-efficiency electric motors to power new drilling and refining operations.
More recent techniques apply horizontal drilling to extend operations into adjacent underground deposits.
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And that was on fears that Gustav would damage drilling and oil refining operations.
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