Sentence examples for awarding of exploration from inspiring English sources

It is, as one lawyer involved in the case wryly puts it, "a slightly Hollywood story".The opening chapter was the awarding of exploration licences for four blocks at Simandou to Rio Tinto in 1997.

"In addition, the company announced on 21 September this year the acquisition of an interest in the producing East Foinaven oil field, and provisional awards of exploration licences were also announced last week which included four in the west of Shetlands area, of which three are operated by Faroe Petroleum".

In India, 32 CBM blocks have been awarded for exploration and production, out of which six blocks are commercially producing methane gas at 0.5 million metric standard cubic feet per day.

China is expanding its search for more sources of shale gas, by awarding exploration licences to 16 companies.

It often takes several years from being awarded an exploration license to the drilling of the first well.

The new team may find it hard to restore confidence in politics.The scandal concerns alleged kickbacks in the award of oil-exploration contracts.

In 2006, NASA gave Kraft the Ambassador of Exploration Award, which carried with it a sample of lunar material brought back by Apollo 11.

It awarded exploration permits for swathes of territory, including in areas hitherto off limits, such as the fragile páramo tundra in the Andes.

Despite years of debate and disputes, the government is committed to establishing a shale gas industry in the northwest, with a number of exploration licences already awarded.

Chevron was awarded the largest exploration contract in the block thought to be most productive.

Libya has awarded five new exploration deals to European oil companies TotalFinaElf, Repsol and Turkish Petroleum, and has plans to award 125 more, with hopes of attracting $10 billion in new oil investments by 2010.