Sentence examples for began offshore from inspiring English sources

Gulf Coast companies have extracted 144 trillion cubic feet of natural gas from the sub-seabed since they began offshore drilling in 1947, and there's still an estimated 167 trillion cubic feet where that came from.

Corporate America tried numerous times in Congress to have its government enforce free trade, but rebuffed again and again, began offshoring in order to compete in globalization.

Companies operating in other segments of Indiana's manufacturing base like United Technologies also began offshoring new production to China's sweatshops and pollution havens.

Friction increased recently after Guyana signed contracts to begin offshore oil exploration.

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

From the Copper River Delta here on Prince William Sound to Cook Inlet near Anchorage, where the state recently sold oil-exploration rights in 30 tracts, to the gigantic man-made Northstar island in the Beaufort Sea where BP Amoco is set to begin offshore production, exploration and development are surging.

Shell has launched an ambitious bid to begin offshore Arctic drilling despite a chorus of disapproval from environmental groups.

Red algae blooms begin offshore, but can feed on nutrients from shore, such as fertilizers and leaky septic tanks.

Farther north, Norway's first offshore oil field went into production in 1971, and the United Kingdom began recovering offshore oil from the North Sea four years later.

As manufacturing of electronics in the United States began moving offshore decades ago, some feared the American economy would suffer.

Only last year, Iran reacted with a threat of military action when British Petroleum began its offshore oil exploration.