Further complicating the monitoring of oil revenues from Sonangol, the company assumed some time ago complete control of foreign currency receipts from the oil sector, and stopped channelling them through the central bank as mandated by the law.
"Monitoring by the oil spill response vessels escorting the tow confirmed that there were no signs of a discharge of oil during the transit, " the team said in a news release.
The group gets paid to do things like restore electrical infrastructure in Kosovo and set up remote monitoring links between an oil refinery in Houston and Cutler-Hammer's offices in Warrendale, Pa.
Expect future cars to help motorists garner maximum mileage by leveraging technology like the eco-tutoring systems found in many hybrids, wider use of tire-pressure, oil life and engine-tuning monitoring systems and more-sophisticated GPS guidance that can select less-congested routes.
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They are -- obviously have been heavily involved in monitoring the movement of the oil.
The new "multilateration" monitoring system is a joint initiative by Oil and Gas UK and National Air Traffic Services Ltd (Nats).
The gliders will be used for seismic monitoring, measuring currents for rig building, and detecting oil seepage from drilling.
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And the risk of earthquakes, which has long been present in conventional oil-and-gas extraction, is modest and mitigated by monitoring.
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Yet the UN has no monitoring system in place on the ground to prevent illicit oil exports going out, or suspect imports coming in.
And like integrated oil and gas companies, the efficiency developer is responsible for installing and monitoring the efficiency measures, ensuring that the building upgrades produce savings for years to come.
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The satellite will have a number of viewing modes that will enable it to perform a wide range of roles, from flood monitoring and land cover classification to disaster mapping and maritime enforcement - notably ship tracking and oil spill detection.
Some oil companies began evacuating workers off their rigs Thursday, spokesmen said, while other firms said they were were monitoring the storm's progress.
We are closely monitoring the events as they start and are hopeful that this is a situation that will contain the oil coming from the well.
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