An original application by the company was withdrawn after a home was found to be near the proposed drilling site.
The goal was to help the regulators track the source of any groundwater contamination that might occur at or near a drilling site.
The plan was to set cement plugs in the well, temporarily abandon it, and move the Deepwater Horizon off to a new drilling site within a couple days.
Saif's chief operating officer was there with his armed guards in a bulletproof SUV (with a backup bulletproof SUV following him) for a visit to the drilling site but avoided the trouble.
Drilling work at the site to prepare for the plant is under way.
Anti-fracking protesters who halted test drilling by invading a site have been found guilty of trespass, assault and obstruction charges.
BBC: Hesketh Bank fracking rig protesters guilty of trespass
The rover will spend the rest of the spring drilling and sampling the site, in search of organic compounds, then head for higher ground.
It provides engineering, drilling, fracking, well site services, well logging and support services to the energy patch.
And the villain of Disney's most recent film, "The Muppets, " is an oil baron intent on drilling for oil at the site of the Muppets' theater.
WSJ: Walt Disney Stakes Claim After Oil Firm Adopts Famous Name
The Plan C drill -- an enormous oil drilling platform that dominates the rescue site -- had reached 156 meters (512 feet), Sougarret said.
In September, Chesapeake will soon launch Shale.tv, another video site devoted to natural gas drilling.
The drilling apparatus is expected to remain on site because the weather was not projected to be very strong, Allen said.
Though the plant continued pumping gas from existing wells, the strike halted drilling of new wells and froze the site's fracking program, said the three employees.
WSJ: Algeria Probes Possible Role of Local Workers in Attacks
"Reports that we are drilling or intending to drill on a site adjacent to the Elkhorn Ranch were premature, " he told The Associated Press in a statement on Tuesday.
Our course done, we were ready to go in, right up to the collapse site where the rescue workers were drilling to find the six miners.
The site already has planning permission for test drilling, although the company behind the plans, Cuadrilla Resources, says Balcombe is not in its current plans.
Exploratory drilling work is set to take place at the planned site.
The first stage of drilling the 13, 000ft vertical well at the Anna's Road site is now under way which the company anticipates should take two to three months.
BBC: Fracking firm Cuadrilla plans new well at St Annes site
In 2006 a devastating mudflow erupted near a site in Java where Lapindo Brantas, a Bakrie-controlled company, was drilling for gas.
The Government of Flanders and the Tides of Time partnership have provided more than USD 3 million to date to help States and site managers face the growing challenges of pollution largely posed by underwater mining and drilling as well as maritime transportation.
UNESCO: House | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Mr. SIEGLER: Back at the reintroduction site, Bob Leachman says the black-footed ferret's survival depends on how intense the drilling is, and he believes there's every indication given the current boom, that big trucks, drill rigs and roads will soon dot stop this landscape.
应用推荐