Sentence examples for exploration agreement from inspiring English sources

The reference was to a $900 million oil exploration agreement between Libya and BP in January 2008.

On the Palestinian side officials are also close-mouthed, declining even to reveal the terms of their exploration agreement.

If Woodside were contemplating entering an exploration agreement in a new country, the board would want to know the details, he said.

BP has admitted that the lobbying on the prisoner transfer agreement in 2007 was designed to get Libyan backing for an exploration agreement.

The Bethlehem Steel Corporation said it had agreed with Nuclear Dynamics Inc. to amend and extend their joint uranium exploration agreement venture until December 1977.

Analysts said there were some positive signals for foreign investors in recent months, including an oil exploration agreement between Rosneft of Russia and BP, the British oil company.

The Western Desert Lands Aboriginal Corp, representing the Martu, has signed uranium exploration agreements in the area with at least two companies.

In addition there are oil exploration agreements inside Saudi with Shell and for gas development with Russia's Lukoil, Sinopec and a consortium of Italy's ENI and Spain's Repsol.

The most prosaic explanation is that China's state-owned National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), the rig's owner, is keen to develop sources of oil and gas for the country's energy-hungry economy that do not depend on exploration agreements with western oil companies.

"Conducting business in the region requires a healthy appetite for risk," said Rogers Beall, a businessman here with a contract to help negotiate oil exploration agreements for Guinea-Bissau, a West African country of 1.3 million whose president, Kumba Yala, was ousted in a bloodless coup last week.

** China, Vietnam and the Philippines have agreed to enter into joint exploration agreements instead of continuing to clash over competing claims in the Spratly Islands.