McCain acknowledged, this week, his offshore drilling plan would not produce any additional oil for years.
This is where somebody--the government, usually--imposes an orderly drilling plan to get the maximum amount of oil out of the ground.
As he sees it, it was BP that prepared the drilling plan, and it was BP in charge when the drilling concluded and the crew was preparing to cap the well.
In March 2010 the Obama administration announced that it would delay an offshore drilling plan and only make available a fraction of the offshore land that had been previously agreed upon.
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Drilling under Plan A will stop this weekend once the drill bit reaches 1, 247 feet (380 meters), then the drill will receive scheduled maintenance before resuming early next week, engineer Rene Aguilar said.
According to Golborne, the first stage of drilling on Plan B has reached a depth of 1, 640 feet (500 meters) and will pierce the ceiling of the mine shaft where the men are trapped this weekend.
Even if the cost cuts work and Big Oil finally agrees to support the group, environmentalists are squarely against the drilling aspect of the plan.
The Vostok drilling project took years to plan and implement.
The group in the Senate says its plan probably would allow drilling in new areas of the outer continental shelf, an idea vehemently opposed by Democratic leaders.
McCain proposed lifting the ban on offshore drilling last week as part of his plan to reduce dependence on foreign oil and help combat rising gas prices.
And Thomas Pyle, President of the Institute for Energy Research, a group that advocates offshore drilling, calls the group's plan an "act of political expedience" that doesn't guarantee the production of any new oil.
Cairn had claimed that the raid on its Edinburgh offices was part of a GPI-led Greenpeace campaign to get hold of Cairns's oil spill response plan and encourage a moratorium on drilling in the Arctic.
They generally require the drillers to file a plan for royalty-sharing when the drilling permit is issued for a specific unit, based upon known geometry of hydrocarbon reservoirs and surface area.
The Plan C drill -- an enormous oil drilling platform that dominates the rescue site -- had reached 156 meters (512 feet), Sougarret said.
Yet she says they were aided by other federal agencies signing off on the drilling techniques used by BP, and never demanding a plan of action if a spill of this magnitude took place.
Heatley, the ecologist, said that "not one" of the energy companies drilling in the area has a long-term restoration plan for sensitive deep-forest environments, and that permits usually require only minimal restoration, such as planting grasses.
The senator from Arizona outlined an energy plan that would include lifting the ban on offshore drilling for oil, a reversal of his position during his 2000 campaign.
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Our plan is to repeat the success of Ghana by drilling wells in the remote Eastern Equatoria State where the majority of the people suffering from this disease live.
The Bush administration now faces greater hurdles in selling controversial initiatives, such as its new energy plan, which in part calls for increased oil drilling and greater use of nuclear power, and the president's dream of a national missile defense shield.
Obama on August 1 eased his policy against offshore drilling, saying it could be part of a larger bipartisan energy plan.
Showing that there are no doubts about the importance of deepwater drilling in the oil and gas industry, General Electric announced a plan to purchase 100% of subsea pipeline manufacturer Wellstream Holdings .
Under the plan, BP said that the worst spill from a mobile drilling operation would come from a lease called the Mississippi Canyon 462, about 33 miles off the Louisiana coast.
My plan was to do some well-side geology work, drum up some drilling deals, and do some map work at night and sell those.
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Yet earlier this month the Interior Department released a new five-year plan that puts most of the Outer Continental Shelf off-limits for oil drilling.
The assembly of the drill to be used in Plan C has been completed, he said, adding that he hoped it would begin drilling this weekend.
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