offshore drilling

The U. S. Senate has dropped efforts to put emissions curbs in an energy bill now focused on reforming offshore drilling.

Yet they seem ready to push this legislation as a way to block offshore drilling while appearing to be in favor of it.

in 1969, after all, that created momentum for a moratorium on new offshore drilling, and another spill could change the poll numbers today.

When Obama announced the new offshore drilling policy, he said, "We need to move beyond the tired debates of the left and the right. "

But he did not specifically pledge a vote during a coming lame-duck session of on offshore drilling controls.

Obama had opposed new offshore drilling, but said recently he would support a limited expansion as part of a comprehensive energy program.

Offshore drilling is one of four actions the president wants lawmakers to take to increase U. S. energy production.

Despite the spread of the disaster the government has continued to issue permits and waivers for offshore drilling projects.

The U. S. House committee on natural resources has agreed measures that would prevent BP from new offshore drilling for seven years.

The decision was an unfavorable one among both critics and proponents of offshore drilling.

Then there is the question of expanding offshore drilling.

Bill Nelson, a Democratic senator from Florida, says that any energy bill allowing offshore drilling would be "dead on arrival" .

The Republican Party's national committee is running a television commercial backing the president's call for more offshore drilling.

With the U. S. government bans most offshore drilling except in the Gulf of Mexico for environmental reasons.

In addition, the costs of offshore drilling are just as astronomical as the technical challenges.

Also under scrutiny is the Minerals Management Service (MMS), the part of the Department of Interior that oversees offshore drilling.

Wednesday, a Senate panel voted in favor of an energy bill that would, among other things, open up new areas to offshore drilling.

Offshore drilling seems like a sensible way to obtain a very handy product. Extra safeguards may be needed.

But it's hardto imagine any precautions that would satisfy the greens, short of a total banon offshore drilling.

Control achieved certain results, the public enthusiasm for offshore drilling is not reduced.

Offshore drilling could allow seawater to seep down into the huge icy deposits. And release tons of methane up into the atmosphere.

Mr Prentice and his counterparts from other Arctic states met in Greenland this week, to discuss offshore drilling among other topics.

The Administration supports offshore drilling--but drilling off the shores of Brazil.

Now environmentalists will point to the spill as a reminder of the dangers of offshore drilling.

Unlike the easily changed offshore drilling leases and malleable regulation policies, the suburban problem is fast becoming intractable.

Automatic pipe handling system is mainly used in offshore drilling, but is rarely used in onshore drilling.

The Cypriot government, backed by Greece, has asked an American company to begin offshore drilling for gas to the south of the island.

The government says since Montara it has adopted a "more rigorous approach for the assessment of offshore drilling" .

The third is the U. S. government's restrictions on offshore drilling for oil and on oil development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

In response, President Barack Obama put a freeze on new offshore-drilling leases until a review of the accident could be carried out.

In Canada, Arctic offshore drilling is delayed as the National Energy Board is reviewing its regulations after the gulf spill.

Offshore drilling is currently blocked by both legislative and administrative prohibitions.

Renewed opposition to offshore drilling could break the various constituencies apart.

Authorities have shed their hands-off approach as they rush to make offshore drilling safer.

'After the offshore drilling problems of BP, investors are starting to look more onshore, ' the person said.

Consider this headline from the Aug. 18, 2009 issue of the Wall Street Journal: "Obama Underwrites Offshore Drilling. "

on the contrary, it stressed a belief that, if properly managed and regulated, the risks of offshore drilling are still acceptable.

Two years later, Mr Megrahi was home and BP had its offshore drilling rights.

but, as Mr Obama's critics rightly point out, he backed expanded offshore drilling before fixing the tarnished regulator.

In themselves, limits on offshore drilling are only a modest-sized issue.

A type of offshore drilling and production platform used in very deep water.

Protestors also made their voices heard. Many held signs and chanted against McCain's stance on offshore drilling.

He says the president is wrong to link offshore drilling with lower gas prices.

Drill string heave compensation system is vital device of offshore drilling operation.

Congress will stiffen oversight of offshore drilling and boost the penalties for lapses.

Allowing offshore drilling would also create jobs and reduce US long-term dependence on foreign oil.

Mr. Bush spoke one day after his party's presumptive nominee called for lifting the ban on offshore drilling.

Another source of tension involves the future direction of offshore drilling regulations.

The deck below the rotary table on an offshore drilling rig.

The second main provision of the Kerry-Graham agreement is renewed offshore drilling for oil and gas.

Many are calling for fewer offshore drilling platforms, while others point out that a moratorium could be even more damaging.

The industry reacted with dismay, warning the delay in offshore drilling would hit jobs and the economy.

McCain supported the abolition of the ban on offshore drilling.

Lights from offshore drilling platforms twinkled on the horizon.

In addition, after an emergency safety review, we're putting in place aggressive new operating standards for offshore drilling.

Did regulation of offshore drilling change, and will BP revisit the Macondo well?

In March he proposed opening new stretches of America's coasts to offshore drilling.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said May 2 that moving ahead on offshore drilling will require a balancing act.

But he declined to back away from the pursuit of offshore drilling.

Including the damage that results from offshore drilling when there is an oil spill.

On March 31, President Obama unveiled a plan to allow offshore drilling for oil and natural gas in the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico.

Oil and gas exploitation of deepwater has become a trend of offshore drilling.

With Americans paying record-high gasoline prices, President Bush says it is time for lawmakers to lift a 27-year ban on offshore drilling.

We've been through this before with other ways of offshore drilling.

And 46% of Americans still favored expanded offshore drilling.

The future safety of offshore drilling for both the roughnecks and the environment will be shaped by what happens a mile below.

I have always spoken out against offshore drilling and personally I don't think they are ready for it yet.

But offshore drilling may get the most attention in coming weeks.

With the oil price so high, the government has come under pressure to allow more offshore drilling.

A comparison is made between ships and offshore drilling platform.

A jackup rig is the most widely used mobile offshore drilling unit.

Noble, the world's second-biggest offshore-drilling contractor, agreed to buy FDR Holdings, valuing its smaller rival at $2. 16 billion.

We are out of drilling rigs. The current offshore drilling fleet of 600 rigs is, on average, 25 years old this year.

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