New financial players, like South Africa's Nufcor Group and Evolution Markets, a New York-based over the counter brokerage firm, have become active in uranium contracts in the last couple of years, while deep-pocketed investors have financed new uranium exploration operations.
"More importantly than that financial piece is just the experience gained through the International Space Station, " said Bill Gerstenmaier, Nasa's associate administrator for human exploration and operations.
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So far, NASA and Harvard researchers have collected data on why people participate in prizes and how the size of the competitor pool affects the outcome, says Jason Crusan, NASA's chief technologist for human exploration and operations.
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"This new heavy-lift launch vehicle will make it possible for explorers to reach beyond our current limits, to nearby asteroids, Mars and its moons, and to destinations even farther across our solar system, " William Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.
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Like many of its competitors, Exxon is putting its chips on higher-margin exploration and production operations.
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That typically is steadier than exploration or refining operations.
China is the most important investor in Iranian exploration and extraction operations, and has been selected to develop the Azadegan and Yadavaran oil and natural gas fields, and the South Pars field.
Engineers are already benefitting from Full's discovery as they are finding ways to build climbing robots with better tails that could in the future be used to aid in search-and-rescue operations or even space exploration.
The joint venture is subject to Chinese regulatory approvals and on approval the venture will carry out operations under the name Chinalco Rio Tinto Exploration Co.
Now, the legacy of all that research and exploration is the growing likelihood of large-scale mining operations, fuelled by rising mineral prices, in many parts of the ocean in the coming decades.
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The company continued to benefit from the shift towards shale oil, natural gas liquids and enhanced oil recovery operations as the slow recovery in gas prices pushed exploration firms to focus on liquids.
Devon Energy is an oil and gas exploration, development and production company with U.S. and international operations.
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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.
Furthermore, so long as it remains government-owned, the company risks being attacked by Brazil's vocal nationalists over its plans to expand its foreign operations, taking advantage of its prowess in deep-water exploration, instead of investing at home.
The management at ConocoPhillips has figured out exactly what its rivals at Marathon Oil concluded and acted upon only a couple weeks earlier: that by dividing the exploration and production business from the refining and marketing business, the sum of the two different operations (which attract different kinds of investors) are worth more than one integrated oil company.
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Its operations stretch across all links in the natural gas value chain, with the exceptions of exploration and production.
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The company has operations in six countries on three continents, some of which are joint ventures, as well as exploration activities in ten countries.
While exploration and production activity in Iraq will definitely impact the top line of oil services firms, managing costs of operations will be a major headache for the companies.
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