Mr. Chakra suggested that the company devise a simple foot-pedal spray device the worker could use while drilling.
Lapindo Brantas disavows any responsibility, despite claims that it had failed to use appropriate safety equipment while drilling.
The ship must stay perfectly still while drilling and does so using six thrusters with 15-foot-diameter propellers that can rotate 360 degrees.
Prosecutors assert the employees may have provided false information to regulators about the risks associated with the well while drilling was in progress, the Journal noted.
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The natural gas industry has argued that flawed casing practices used while drilling shale-gas wells were responsible for methane contamination in drinking water supplies surrounding shale-gas wells.
Drilling a 2 or 3 foot hole can be done with normal equipment, while drilling a ten, fifty, or one hundred foot diameter vertical hole would require an entirely new invention.
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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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While drilling in that depth of water was prohibitively expensive a decade ago, it's now easy for a company Triton's size to rent a drillship to find the oil and set up a floating production platform to process it.
Of course, Doug is ignoring that while drilling, the operator temporarily lost control of the well and a flare occurred that lasted over two hours, a pretty good sign that a lot of gas was flowing up the well.
Critics also charged that the Bank was lending money to drill off a foreign shore while banning drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
While deepsea drilling came under scrutiny after BP's tragic Macondo well accident this summer, Petrobras executives have expressed confidence about the prospects of the industry, especially off the coast of Brazil.
While more offshore drilling enjoyed bipartisan support just months ago, in the wake of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf, the prospects for new offshore oil and gas production are uncertain.
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There has been an extremely long winter in much of the northeast and the Midwest, while a reduction in drilling operations has also reduced supply.
In response, Mr Obama has softened his opposition to offshore drilling, while denouncing Mr McCain as a lapdog of the oil industry who will do little to bring down prices.
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The Republicans are determined to make hay out of the Democrats' perceived intransigence on drilling, while the Democrats are keen to paint the Republicans as the lackeys of greedy oil barons.
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The cost of extra safety investment may slow Arctic drilling for a while, especially as we are in a glut of cheap shale gas.
Independent firms benefit from full expensing of their intangible drilling costs, while the integrated firms can expense only 70 percent of their IDCs and must write off the rest over a five- year period.
In fact, the administration has agreed that all evidence demonstrates drilling can safely continue while further study is pursued.
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There is little hope of passing urgent legislative business, such as a long-stalled deal on sharing proceeds from deep-sea oil drilling between states, while politicians gossip, plot and counter-plot.
But Martens said issuing of permits for shale gas drilling could begin even while regulations are being finished, if the Health Department's review finds the Environmental Conservation Department's impact study adequately addresses health concerns.
The process has been banned in France, while the UK recently lifted a moratorium on drilling for shale gas.
While students across the state have spent hours drilling for the annual tests, a small but vocal group of parents is planning to boycott them, saying those hours could have been better spent.
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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While the Administration has some ability to affect oil drilling on state and private lands (e.g. indirectly via EPA rules and regulations), most of its authority is limited to Federal lands.
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Bankston, nominated by the United States of America, for placing their own lives at risk while rescuing survivors from the Deepwater Horizon Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit, in the Gulf of Mexico, following a devastating explosion on the rig in April 2010.
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While it is true that some who live near drilling operations in parts of the country have become disenchanted with the process, the reality is that, even in controversial areas in the Northeast, surveys consistently show that more folks approve of the industry than those who oppose it.
Development Driller II, the rig drilling a second relief well as a redundancy measure, is completing preparations for its blowout preventer to be used on the Macondo well, while the Development Driller III -- the rig drilling the relief well expected to intercept the main well -- is standing by until that's done.
Mercury was found in the reservoir during drilling at Kipper, delaying the project, while the Turrum project is faced with delays related to structural designs.
"The agency has taken unprecedented steps and will continue to make the changes necessary to restore the American people's confidence in the safety and environmental soundness of oil and gas drilling and production on the Outer Continental Shelf, while balancing our nation's important energy needs, " spokeswoman Kendra Barkoff said.
While the Obama administration is still currently imposing a moratorium on deepwater drilling as a result of the BP Macondo spill, Russia is pushing for a new energy frontier in the Arctic.
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