Sentence examples for exploration contract from inspiring English sources

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

In 1999, before the new contracts came into effect, only one exploration contract was signed.

There are also hopes that Britain can sign a major oil exploration contract during Mr Cameron's two-day visit.

The most recent instance, announced last week on a Kurdish government Web site, was an oil exploration contract with the Hunt Oil Company of Dallas.

A costly case in point is the recent call by Nigeria's House of Representatives to cancel Shell and ENI's exploration contract.

The Iraqi government had also frozen a contract with a Chinese company to develop the Al Ahdab field, in southern Iraq, he went on to say, and the only remaining arrangement, an exploration contract with Petrovietnam, was in doubt.

Oil and gas companies needed his administration's approval to get exploration contracts.

Exxon Mobil helped break the ice when it signed exploration contracts last year.

Moreover, all Kurdish oil exploration contracts comply with the Iraqi Constitution and pending national revenue-sharing laws.

They have not held up any exploration contracts, and the Azeris have started pumping oil from their fields.

Foreign oil firms that signed big exploration contracts in Azerbaijan are beginning to see them bear fruit.