The new deal will create the Arctic Research and Design Center for Offshore Development in St.
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Its size means it could be a hazard to shipping and offshore development in the region.
Meanwhile, our neighbors, along with Russia and China, are aggressively pursuing offshore development adjacent to our borders.
Based in Tel Aviv, six-year-old Ness Technologies is a small but rapidly growing IT outsourcer, specializing in offshore development to support a wide range of technology needs for its business customers.
At the same time, we have implemented comprehensive reforms in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that has made offshore development safer and more responsible.
Other start-ups are investing heavily in offshore development.
But the facility brings all of that home, and sets the stage for the next phase of US offshore wind development.
The Kolkata, India-based brothers first created a Web site for playing an online version of the word game Scrabble several years ago, "just for the love of the game, " says Jayant, 21, who also runs an offshore Web development firm with his brother.
Both have advised private-sector clients on energy development offshore Israel and in the eastern Mediterranean.
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Alistair Gill, head of offshore wind farm development, said the project was "half the size of the original plans".
"The deal is perfectly aligned with CNOOC's long-term strategy of achieving growth through the exploration and development of offshore fields and achieving geographic diversification of the company's portfolio, " Fu said.
They are trying to get their message across that they are ready for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to call a vote on opening up the U.S. coast to offshore oil and gas development.
The islands' ability to set low rates of taxation has been fundamental to their development as offshore financial centres: among the tax benefits they offer are special company-tax regimes, with little or no tax, to attract international business.
The Offshore Wind Jobs and Economic Development Act, Senate Bill 747, calls for private developers to propose commercial wind projects from 2017 to 2027.
That, along with the development of the offshore yuan market, will likely lead to the yuan becoming a new global reserve currency at some stage.
Bluewater is furthest along in the development of a big offshore farm.
In the near term, as we transition to cleaner energy sources, we're going to have to make some tough decisions about opening up new offshore areas for oil and gas development.
Based in Houston, Forum Energy makes products and parts used in land-based and offshore oil-and-gas exploration and development.
The two companies have a technology-sharing alliance, a pact to cooperate on biofuels development and joint ventures to develop offshore fields.
Those scenarios include development in both federal and state offshore areas, including along Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf coasts as well as in Great Lakes and Hawaiian waters, the agency says.
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The economic and security needs of Israel, and the nature of natural gas markets, argue for an aggressive export strategy, as delays threaten the emergence of offshore Israel as an area of significant energy development.
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Exxon has been consistently investing in upstream facilities over 2012, and key examples include the Kearl Initial Development Project for natural gas and offshore oil prospects such as the Phobos in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Sweden, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Luxemburg, France, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Norway and Belgium agreed to coordinate investments and project development plans to roll out the offshore wind power grid across the North Sea, the Channel, Celtic Sea and Irish Sea.
The North Carolina Offshore Wind Coalition, a lobbying outfit for the wind industry and local wind advocates, has put legislation into play in the North Carolina legislature that would likely result in the development of a whopping 2.5 gigawatts of offshore wind power by 2027.
Europe has had offshore wind farms since the early 90s, but all of the development has been in shallow waters, unlike the deep waters of the Gulf of Maine.
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Other planned projects which have fuelled a demand for building workers include a proposed 30-turbine offshore wind farm at Scarweather Sands, off Porthcawl, the proposed development of film studios at Llanharan, near Bridgend and city centre developments in Swansea.
One of seven organizations competing for this funding is the Lake Erie Energy Development Corporation (LEEDCo), which aims to stimulate an offshore freshwater wind industry in Northeast Ohio.
Controlled by the founding Swire family, the company's operations also include property development in Hong Kong, marketing and distribution of Coca Cola products in China and supplying offshore oil rigs.
Offshore wind could become a major player in the UK renewables portfolio, but this would "require massive development in a relatively narrow timeframe, " he said.
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