The past month has seen the discovery of enormous gasfields in Tanzanian offshore waters.
But a severe storm caused the offshore waters to fill with ice, leaving the barge unable to get in, said Jason Evans, the company's chairman.
When he started raising the nets from those offshore waters, and saw the processing mill getting clogged with minnows, not Whales, he could have moderated the impacts early, to filter them out on the front end, he did not.
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Rather these prospects are in the shallow waters, just offshore in waters less than 50 feet deep.
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Greek officials have also begun tabling more traditional options including rolling back opposition to offshore exploration in local waters.
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For another, he lauded and pledged support for offshore drilling in Brazilian waters that he has shut down in our own.
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States could earn more from offshore oil drilling in their waters, and would be able to veto drilling plans.
They have drilled for oil in ever-deeper waters, ever farther offshore.
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For now though it is the Palestinians and the Syrians who are least able to take advantage of the offshore gas that lies under their waters.
And, due to the moratorium, offshore operators have already moved to international waters.
Ambitious plans for offshore renewable energy projects are crowding the waters--floating wind farms, tidal-power turbines and wave-energy barges--all expected in the next decade.
In the spring they swim north from the Gulf of Mexico along the Gulf Stream, about 60 miles offshore, to the nutrient-rich waters of the Northeast and Canada.
Though profits would most likely ripple throughout the industry, Chevron, Shell, BP and Anadarko Petroleum, which have some of the largest offshore operations in U.S. waters, are the most likely winners.
New offshore drilling in most U.S. waters has been banned since the early 1980s, when mounting public pressure pushed lawmakers into action.
Congress quietly lifted the ban on offshore oil drilling yesterday, opening the vast waters of the outer continental shelf to oil and gas companies eager to exploit the area's substantial energy resources.
In the coves around the town, family groups lie on the beach while I join the swimmers lolling offshore, our heads bobbing in the gilded waters that stretch out towards the setting sun.
The report has assumed Scotland could expect to have the share of offshore oil and gas revenue that comes from Scottish waters.
The offshore drilling debate boils down to an argument over leasing government waters for oil and natural gas exploration and production.
The most common offshore jurisdictions is no doubt the Cayman Islands, located in the warm waters of the Caribbean.
An offshore wind park with a capacity of 120 MW is planned for shallow waters 6 to 10 kilometers from the coast.
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Then the spill in the Gulf of Mexico fouled the waters: one of the bill's key elements is an expansion of domestic offshore oil exploration.
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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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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