This year, the US Gulf of Mexico witnessed the highest number of deepwater drilling permits issued since 2007.
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International is interested in wells in the Rockies and the US Gulf Coast.
Malo platform hull from Korea to the US Gulf of Mexico for Chevron, immediately after the ship leaves the shipyard.
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Second, any waterborne imports are going to come into these same terminals and through pipelines from the US Gulf Coast.
The spill has renewed debate over a proposal to build another pipeline from western Canada to the US Gulf Coast.
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The coasts of four other US Gulf states - Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida - have so far been more seriously affected by the spill.
Recent discoveries off the coasts of West Africa, Brazil and a resurrection of drilling activity in the US Gulf of Mexico have spurred demand for ultra-deepwater rigs.
In the real world, the mix of US and Arab Gulf forces, bases, and resources give the US and Arab Gulf states a decisive advantage in virtually every aspect of conventional military competition.
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President Saleh is due to give up his presidential title at the next elections under an agreement brokered by the US and Gulf Arab states.
Around this time, the administration concluded that Iraq's defeat in the war would be contrary to US interests in the Persian Gulf.
Some hours north of where I am on a trip with BACKROADS, a travel company based in Berkeley, California, sits the vast and controversial Canadian tar sands containing vast amounts of oil and natural gas, which are some day going to be sent through an 1800 mile pipeline to the Louisiana Gulf Coast that the US State Department has just approved.
All of us are keeping the people of the Gulf Coast in our thoughts and prayers.
Natural disasters such as the eruption of the volcano in Iceland or the oil spill on the Gulf coast last year make us seriously consider the fragility of human strength against nature.
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The hurricane comes as US Vice-President Joe Biden is visiting Gulf coast officials and residents.
The company's headquarters are in New Orleans and its lone US factory is located on Mississippi's Gulf Coast.
After Cuba, Gustav's projected path takes it over the oil-producing Gulf, before making landfall in the US, possibly as early as Monday.
And like the rest of the US population, black Americans are experiencing a widening gulf between a well-off minority and the poor bulk.
On April 21st, Admiral Allen tells us the government started dispatching equipment rapidly to the Gulf, and you just said on day one you recognized the enormity of this situation.
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The US Navy has a carrier battle group in the Gulf - centred on the USS Carl Vinson - and a second, with the USS Enterprise , in the Arabian Sea.
In addition the US economy is feeling the adverse affects of the Gulf oil spill and the debt crisis in Europe, which the Fed now cites as a potential economic contagion.
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Tehran warned it could shut the Strait of Hormuz and yesterday threatened to take action if the US navy moves an aircraft carrier, which left the Gulf on December 27 on a planned routine transit through the Strait, back into the Gulf.
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The disaster in the Gulf that resulted in the largest oil spill in US history.
The US buys only about 12 per cent of its oil from the Gulf.
Only last month, it fired one in the Gulf of Mexico towards a test range at the Eglin US Air Force Base in western Florida.
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That oil and gas will come to the US. The ban on drilling for oil and gas in the Gulf of Mexico was lifted late last year.
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The potential devastation to the Gulf Coast, its economy, and its people require us to continue our relentless efforts to stop the leak and contain the damage.
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In Bahrain, at another military base well out of the public eye and set apart from that country's simmering unrest, Royal Navy personnel man the naval HQ known as the UK Maritime Component Command (UKMCC), directing Britain's minesweepers and frigates around the Gulf, in co-ordination with the far larger US Navy 5th Fleet headquarters.
More than 6 million of us live and work around the world, mostly in the West Asian Gulf states but also in Europe, the U.S., Canada and East Asia.
Former Senator JOHN EDWARDS (Democrat, North Carolina): From my perspective, what's actually happened as a result of this terrible tragedy in the Gulf is there's a window of opportunity available to us.
The oil spill damaged the Gulf of Mexico coast causing one of the biggest environmental disasters in US history.
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