It also turns out that drilling and completion is becoming almost exponentially more efficient.
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The plaintiffs say Texaco designed and carried out the drilling program so it is liable.
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Vale council rejected an application by Bridgend-based Coastal Oil and Gas to carry out exploratory drilling for shale gas at Llandow.
From engine overhauls, to drilling out rivets to fixing faulty flaps, Boeing and Airbus-made passenger jet repairs are increasingly being done in third-world countries.
In 1979, the worlds's worst oil spillage occurred as a result of a marine blow-out beneath the drilling rig Ixtoc 1 in the Gulf of Mexico.
That led to debarment from new federal contracts, which means that BP cannot take out any new drilling leases in the gulf until the ban is lifted.
And four out of 10 admitted drilling phonics in the week prior to the test.
He put that toward buying out a partner and drilling (and paid Enron back in eight months).
Points out that he is drilling more on public lands than Bush did.
It has made agreements with the captains of Eskimo whaling boats to move drilling ships out of hunting grounds during the open-water period so they can hunt Bowhead whales.
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We may need to evacuate a drilling rig out in the Gulf of Mexico such as McMoRan, Energy XXI did with the approach of Hurricane Isaac earlier this summer.
Tidewater does boats out to the offshore drilling platforms.
As the infrastructure and distribution network develops, we see more customers switching to natural gas, which will eventually help the companies attain sustainable profits out of shale gas drilling as the natural gas prices rise.
This is an appealing characteristic to the new Bureau of Ocean Energy Management as it strives to work out rules for future drilling in the Gulf that will provide safety and security for both rig workers and the environment.
One danger is that, as the oil slowly oozes out, it might leak into the ground water before a drilling rig can pump it out.
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We will participate in industry-wide efforts to improve the safety and reliability of subsea blow-out preventers and deep water drilling practices.
Low oil prices had the company's drilling rigs pumping out losses.
Over the weekend The New York Times published this story on how the business of drilling natural gas out of shale is some sort of ponzi scheme, even Enron-like.
Structural metal workers and what the BLS calls extractive occupations (mining and drilling) round out the list of the top five most dangerous occupations, though neither group dies on the job at even half the rate of timber cutters.
There Browne began to take a harder look at the promise of deepwater drilling, largely out of necessity:He took charge of exploration and determined that Sohio's oil projects outside of Alaska were a mishmash of expensive properties that would never yield a proper profit.
To placate conservatives, he promoted nuclear power and recently came out for more offshore oil-drilling.
She paused to tell stories about the trail and the area, pointing out an old rig that tried drilling for oil in the 1970s and describing the way the native plants have developed.
Since the April 20 explosions and fire, BP is carefully evaluating the subsea blow-out preventers used in all our drilling operations world-wide, including the testing and maintenance procedures of our drilling contractors using the devices.
It's drilling down to find out what strains are being reported, see if they are close to the current vaccine and if not, determine if the vaccine needs to be changed to include new virus candidates.
The London-based company has lost more than a third of its stock-market value since April 20, when one of its gulf wells blew out, destroying the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, killing 11 men and triggering the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history.
The trick now is to machine the top of the pipe so that the remaining 1400 or so feet can be gripped or to use other tactics to grab hold of it and pull it up and out of the hole so that drilling can proceed.
Because McMoRan is a small company out shooting elephants, it usually farms out stakes in the wells it is drilling.
The plan is to keep gobbling up old shallow fields, using new technology to get more oil and gas out of them, all the while drilling deeper in search of the motherlode.
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There are some reports that international drilling companies may move some equipment out, taking advantage of this moratorium.
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