Sentence examples for drilling opportunity from inspiring English sources

The administration and its Congressional allies, for example, see the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska as the next big drilling opportunity in the United States.

SandRidge's chief executive, Tom Ward, said the merger would add low-risk drilling opportunities, while extending the company's move since late 2008 to increase oil production and reserves.

In other words, it is wrong to limit deep-water drilling opportunities to companies that can afford to pay restitution if they screw up.

The company has already announced plans to sell £4bn worth of drilling opportunities in the US and further afield to Apache Corporation.

Denmark plans to lay claim to parts of the North Pole and other areas in the Arctic, where melting ice is uncovering new shipping routes, fishing grounds and drilling opportunities for oil and gas, a leaked government document showed Tuesday.

"With more targets available, there would be more drilling opportunities that meet the economic hurdles," said Jerry Jeram, a managing director and head of petroleum engineering at CIT Energy, a firm that finances energy projects.

Decades of protections are unwinding with extraordinary speed as Republicans move to lock in drilling opportunities before the 2020 presidential election, according to interviews with over three dozen people and a review of internal government deliberations and federal documents.

The negotiated agreement would allow BP to pursue its long-desired drilling opportunities in the Russian Arctic and pay the billions in penalties it owes the U.S. government for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

The transactions would leave BP with a stake of nearly 20 percent in Rosneft and about $12.3 billion in cash, allowing the company to pursue drilling opportunities in the Russian Arctic and settle billions of dollars in penalties to be imposed by the United States government over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

"We're going to review every single one of them, I can assure you," said Hogan, who has called drilling opportunities in Western Maryland "an economic gold mine" and faulted the state for taking too long to decide whether to allow fracking — which is already permitted in neighboring Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

As noted late last week by Pioneer Natural Resources CEO Scott Sheffield, the Permian is experiencing a worsening shortage of pipeline takeaway capacity as production of both oil and natural gas threatens to overwhelm the existing infrastructure and cause producers to shut in wells and forego planned drilling opportunities there.