Transocean is focusing on deepwater and ultra-deepwater exploration to drive revenues growth in the future.
Ptolemy could not resist filling blanks on his maps with theoretical conceptions, something that plagues exploration to this day.
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Commodore USA's mission is to return the passion and user exploration to computing.
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The government remains a major player across a host of critical sectors, from coal production to oil exploration to railways.
It allowed exploration to proceed last year when others were hanging back after the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Like the U.S. shale gas industry there is plenty of evidence from historic oil exploration to support the Australian search for unconventional gas.
Companies are turning to exploration to ensure future coffee supplies because production has leveled off even as demand has increased, causing coffee-bean prices to quadruple since 2001.
Our government, the catalyst for innovations from nuclear fission and space exploration to the Internet, faces tough strategic choices if we are to maintain our position as the world's innovation hub.
Whereas the logistical hurdles surrounding ultradeep wells (mostly pressure-related) have scared off the likes of Exxon, Chevron has partnered with McMoRan Exploration to snap up dozens of leases in a government auction.
This past summer, McMoRan made a deal with Newfield Exploration to acquire a large number of producing properties from Newfield that included acreage adjacent to the principal areas of McMoRan's drilling programs.
Better, say the doubters, to spend the money on scientific missions, such as Hubble's successors, and leave exploration to the kind of robotic missions that have successfully roved about on the surfaces of Mars and Titan, one of Saturn's moons.
PLC's failure to plug the mile-deep well that has been leaking oil since April is sending shudders down the spines of industry leaders who previously considered offshore exploration to be one of the last lucrative frontiers in the domestic oil business.
The group recently sold off a 30% stake in one of its Greenland exploration licences to Norwegian group Statoil as part of a plan to bring in a partner to share the costs of exploration in the Arctic.
PARCs to perform blue-sky investigative work, how are the frontiers of scientific exploration going to be expanded?
As the amount of reserves oil companies hold starts to diminish, oil companies will need to increase oil exploration and drilling to replenish reserves, after all, they are in the business of selling oil.
Hadfield also talked about the inspiration that science fictional exploits of space exploration provided to him.
Our investment in space exploration helped to create our satellite telecommunications network and the Global Positioning System.
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This week we straddle the past and the future of exploration technology to illustrate this point wonderfully.
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And as they grow from a one-mine exploration story to a two-mine production story, you might eventually get bought out.
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The company's main asset is the exploration rights to Tonkin Springs in areas in north central Nevada known as the Cortez Trend.
First they ask what space exploration has to do with my philosophy of service and selflessness or my interest in mystical spirituality.
In 1999, the Palestinian Authority awarded the exploration licence to British Gas.
The government is also looking to tweak its taxation policy on oil to make technically challenging exploration more lucrative to foreign players.
The United States, Norway, Russia and Greenland have all opened more of their Arctic offshore to exploration in recent years, leading to several big discoveries.
Exploration refers to developing new sources of competitive advantage and growth.
So the only joy in it is this idea of the blind exploration and to see how, when you see what you've done, how it fits into the culture.
Analysts said that BP will provide much needed deepwater exploration expertise to Reliance which has been struggling to ramp up production at KG-D6, its biggest block which lies off the east coast.
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Gerald S. Panneton, company founder, president and chief executive officer, believes that the team Detour put together is one of the main drivers in building an exploration company to an operating company.
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.
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