Sooner or later, with or without highly restrictive drilling rules for offshore deep water wells, the potential of this play can not be ignored by the major oil companies.
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.
Offshore drilling in water less than 500 feet deep wasn't being banned, the spokeswoman said.
Some fish farmers are trying to take aquaculture offshore where the water is cleaner and currents are stronger.
Many oppose the moratorium imposed on offshore deep-water drilling by the Obama administration in the wake of the spill.
By hatching its own fish, carefully controlling feed and raising fish offshore in clean water, mercury and other pollutants can be kept to extremely low levels, contends Spencer.
Its two turbines provided the country's first toe in the water for offshore wind power in December 2000.
The sands yielding oil and gas discoveries are universally similar from onshore Louisiana to far offshore in the deep water.
As of March 28, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcment (BOEMRE) of the Department of the Interior had received 31 deepwater drilling permit applications for offshore drilling activities like water injection wells and drilling from a fixed rig that were still allowed under the moratorium.
Another key in the shallow water is that offshore LA there are existing pipelines to carry these new discoveries to market right away.
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In the background one of the offshore supply vessels was actually spraying water all around the Discover Enterprise.
Hebron is located under 300 feet of water, 200 miles offshore, in a stretch of the northern Atlantic known as iceberg alley.
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Some scientists say densely packing fish into cages or nets in natural bodies of water, frequently just offshore, can destroy delicate habitats while the waste generated can elevate nitrogen levels to harmful levels.
The Mississippi and its flow explain why the Davy Jones discovery well is 20 miles offshore and in only ten feet of water.
The Gulf of Mexico disaster will put a brake on new offshore drilling permits, particularly in deep water, for several months and perhaps years.
Offshore zone: extends from the low water mark to a water depth of about 15 m (49 ft) and is permanently covered with water.
He paddled out on his board to a buoy about 150 yards offshore, far enough to be in deep water, but not so far that he could be taken by a shark.
Chevron sunk an offshore oil rig in 1937 in 14 feet of water and by 1947 drillers were working on rigs out of sight of land.
While investment in UK water is back in boom times, the offshore industry in and around Aberdeen appears to be doing exceptionally well at diversifying into foreign markets.
An important geophysical and technical subtext in the data: growth in offshore production has come entirely from the technically challenging deep water fields, not the older and more numerous shallow water regions.
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At the same time, Global Marine has concentrated its fleet around rigs that can drill in more than 250 feet of water, as oil companies look farther and farther offshore for reserves in places like West Africa and Brazil.
The handful of folks who were able to summon up the courage to enter the water were huddled into small groups a few feet offshore and periodically groups of teenage girls would shriek and run from the surf, inciting a mad scramble for the shore by the remaining bathers.
Flamingos and pelicans feed in the deeper water, and African penguins and gannets breed on the offshore islands.
Low water levels on Lake Malawi have forced the steamers to anchor offshore at most ports along the lake.
The girl was quickly recovered from the water, but her father was located about 98ft (30m) offshore, near the pier.
With oil prices rising and offshore production looking unattractive, we turn our attention to the great frozen north where water is sparse and oil sand abounds.
While the major oil companies were focused on drilling for oil far offshore in 5, 000 or 8, 000 or 10, 000 feet of water, Moffett and McMoRan embarked on a prodigious challenge of their own by drilling to unprecedented depths of 33, 000 feet and more in shallow water.
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The backstory: since the 1970s the Land and Water Conservation Fund (which, only semi-ironically, gets its money from federal royalties from offshore oil and gas drilling) has given money to local governments for parks.
Among the various offshore drilling practices, ultra-deepwater drilling is the most expensive and technically challenging method since it involves drilling at water depths of over 5, 000 feet.
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