Sentence examples for drilling policy from inspiring English sources
The administration's offshore drilling policy, like its fervor for domestic production more generally, has gone through rapid changes.
Like you, I've never supervised the offshore drilling policy of a major oil company, but I can't help feeling responsible.
A spokeswoman said Ms. Baca fully disclosed her BP ties, recused herself from all matters involving the company and was not currently involved in any offshore drilling policy decisions.
The Times reported last week that at the administration meetings leading to this new drilling policy the subject of the vast dysfunction at the Minerals Management Service, the agency charged with regulating the drilling, never even came up.
But the promised reforms of the agency were slow to arrive, and the subject of the minerals service never came up at the meetings leading to the new drilling policy, according to a senior administration official involved in the discussions.
"That will mean, very frankly, this next election will decide what our drilling policy is going to be," said Representative David R. Obey, the Wisconsin Democrat who is the chairman of the Appropriations Committee.
Nevertheless, environmentalists hope the ruling will embolden opponents of Mr. Bush's drilling policies elsewhere.
As every economist — and the U.S. Energy Department — has said, over and over again, it's absurd to blame U.S. drilling policies for high oil prices.
On Tuesday, House Republicans introduced three bills to reverse the administration's offshore oil drilling policies, calling for vast new tracts of offshore territory to be opened to deep-water drilling and for speedier approval of drilling permits.
Most of the money has come from corporations with business pressing in Washington: energy companies seeking favorable drilling policies; pharmaceutical companies concerned about a Medicare drug program; sports teams wanting to protect subsidies for sports arenas; and individual companies like American Airlines, America Online and Microsoft with specific issues before regulators.
Chevron's drilling policies and environmental licensing documents required it to use a substance known as drilling mud at pressures sufficient to "overbalance" reservoir pressure kicks.
