Needless to say, drilling in such places is difficult and expensive, and therefore risky.
The speculation is that something went wrong with the circulation of this drilling mud such that it could no longer control the reservoir pressures.
Jim Noe, general counsel of shallow-water drilling contractor Hercules Offshore defended shallow-water drilling, saying such projects tap relatively low-pressure reservoirs, making blowouts less likely.
The main obstacles cited by the energy executives surveyed speak for themselves: opposition to expanded drilling in places such as the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (cited by 33%), environmental concerns (16%) and a lack of investment in energy due to low commodity prices (14%).
Once seen as badly trailing its competitors in areas such as directional drilling and drilling fluids, Halliburton now has everything it needs to win contracts for projects such as designing, building and operating systems to manage production from oilfields.
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Curiously, for their part, environmentalists expect to be able more tightly to regulate the oceans and to bar activities that endanger the health of their waters, flora and fauna, such as drilling and mining.
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The drill ships and production platforms required to undertake such deep drilling are massive floating structures, much larger than the largest aircraft carriers and costing well over a half billion dollars (and close to a million dollars a day to rent).
Bielsa has been relentlessly drilling his men to neutralise such threats.
It promotes efficiency with advanced technology such as horizontal drilling.
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But by accounting for further development, continual technology advances such as horizontal drilling and supportive prices, the U.S. Geological Survey calculates that 86% of total U.S. proven reserves are additions to original numbers.
The energy boom is creating thousands of jobs related to drilling but also in downstream industries such as transportation, high-technology, construction and manufacturing.
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By concentrating on areas where considerable progress is possible (rather than on such neuralgic issues as drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge or increased CAFE fuel-efficiency standards), America - and in particular its gas-guzzling transportation sector - could be made significantly less reliant on oil supplied by unstable or hostile regimes.
Even though natural-gas prices are slumping, drilling for gas also yields valuable liquids such as butane and propane.
Perhaps even more transformative has been the energy boom, largely sparked by new technologies such as fracking and deepwater drilling.
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To do this, they use the same rigs and techniques, such as fracking and horizontal drilling, as they use for gas.
It also defines problems in detail, such as those involved with drilling in the tundra, and then it convenes focused ideation sessions to build out complex solutions.
Technological breakthroughs such as multi-lateral drilling helped defy predictions of decline in Britain's North Sea that have been made since the 1980s: the region is only now peaking.
Other than rising oil prices, the reason for this shift is that new and controversial technologies such as fracking and horizontal drilling have multiplied the amount of viable deposits in unexpected places.
They make no use of modern technologies such as seismic testing and lateral drilling, for instance.
We may need to evacuate a drilling rig out in the Gulf of Mexico such as McMoRan, Energy XXI did with the approach of Hurricane Isaac earlier this summer.
Transocean is looking to navigate these challenges by concentrating on high specifications sectors such as ultra-deepwater and harsh environment drilling where the competitive intensity is considerably lower.
Other companies with good exploration records specialise in niches, such as extracting gas from especially diffuse fields or drilling in particular types of terrain.
The federal government has already ruled repeatedly that opening new onshore areas, such as the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge, to drilling would exact too great an environmental cost.
And what about other measures, such as passing a second economic stimulus package or expanding drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR)?
Even the EPA report acknowledges that Pavillion's drilling conditions are far different from other areas of the country, such as the Marcellus shale in Pennsylvania.
The state is working hard to build out its pipeline network, but CERES adds that such development is occurring at a slower pace than the drilling taking place.
It handles concessions for 45 professional sports teams in the U.S. And it makes deliveries--to offshore drilling rigs in the North Sea and the Gulf of Mexico for such clients as British Petroleum.
At the moment we don't know what this means for the Welsh government or for local authorities, such as Vale of Glamorgan, who were rejected test drilling last year before losing on appeal.
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