While land-grabs and exploration for natural gas and renewables continues across the natural landscape, prospecting for a different prize has gradually taken hold in the built environment.
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The motion called on the enterprise minister to place a moratorium on exploration for shale gas until an environmental impact assessment has been done, and urged greater support for renewable energy.
For the government, the timing could hardly have been worse: this month, India kicked off a two-month marketing campaign for its biggest sale yet of exploration rights for oil and gas, scheduled for October.
The lack of success in exploration for oil and gas under British waters has raised concerns about prospects for the industry, according to a consultancy.
He championed the reduction of emissions from cars and power plants, while at the same time expanding exploration for oil and gas in the Arctic.
Like the U.S. shale gas industry there is plenty of evidence from historic oil exploration to support the Australian search for unconventional gas.
That is why my Administration continues to open millions of acres for oil and gas exploration.
The Canadian owned energy company have held the licence for oil and gas exploration in the North West since 2008.
He wants to continue a plan started under Milchovich to expand Foster Wheeler's limited expertise in building equipment for oil and gas exploration projects.
The fiscal regime in Ireland for oil and gas exploration and exploitation is probably one of the more attractive fiscal regimes in the world.
Because the U.S. government collects royalty payments and upfront cash from oil companies that lease federal lands for oil and gas exploration and production.
In December, Cuadrilla said it had no intention "at the moment" of drilling to the area south of the village, where it now has permission to drill a borehole for oil and gas exploration.
Cuadrilla insists the process is safe, but says it has no intention "at the moment" of drilling in the area south of the village, where it has permission to drill a borehole for oil and gas exploration.
If it is listed, campaigners will argue that anything that might impinge on the creature's habitat, such as recently announced plans for oil and gas exploration off the Alaskan coast, must either be cancelled or put under much more rigorous scrutiny.
Having managed her state's department responsible for oil and gas exploration and exploitation, having negotiated a long-delayed natural gas pipeline through Canada to the Lower 48 and having been married for nearly two decades to a blue-collar worker in Alaska's North Slope oil fields, she knows more about the subject than all three of the others on the two parties' tickets put together.
"The administration put together a group of experts to review safety recommendations for offshore oil and gas exploration, " Barrasso said.
The offshore drilling debate boils down to an argument over leasing government waters for oil and natural gas exploration and production.
As originally proposed by the Clinton administration in 1997, 5.9 million acres of Gulf waters would have been leased for oil and natural gas exploration.
After going public in 2005, the company today contracts offshore rigs and inland barges for oil and natural gas exploration focused in the Gulf of Mexico.
So exploration for further reserves (and even for offshore gas) is being conducted across the country.
Ultra Deep wells are fantastically expensive, especially for a small oil and gas exploration company such as McMoran.
And just yesterday, we announced the next step for potential new oil and gas exploration in the Atlantic.
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This exploration company has a knack for finding oil and gas in the ground without wasting a lot of money looking in the wrong places.
"We don't have any substantial records that the oil and gas exploration have created an issue for the polar bear, " said Dale Hall, director of Fish and Wildlife.
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With commodity prices falling fast, one hope for continued growth is oil and gas exploration.
In December a licensing round for 15 blocks of oil and gas exploration got only nine bids, as the big foreign oil companies grumble about Algeria's tax burden.
But Joe Dyer, the chief strategy officer at iRobot, thinks oil-and-gas exploration will be a big market for the firm's gliders, because they can survey large areas of seabed in detail at low cost.
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Mr. Fu, for his part, appears eager for Sinopec to step up shale-gas exploration in China.
In addition to easing the exploration process with a simplified single permit for both oil and gas, the plan will be accompanied by a parallel effort to minimize local authority over energy projects.
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