Sentence examples for exploration licence from inspiring English sources

He says Shenhua's exploration licence rules out long-wall mining under the black soil plains.

Once granted, the spokesman said, the exploration licence extension would simply extend the "status quo".

In 2008, the company paid the then Labor state government $300m for a coal exploration licence.

Maybe they're "nimbys" – they have a CSG exploration licence over their 130-hectare property just outside Lismore.

The exploration licence encompassed an area including an Obeid property, Cherrydale Farm, which significantly increased in value when the tenement was issued.

Four years later a company acquired an exploration licence for the mine from the government, which led to an open conflict with the miners on the site.

This came after the North Sea explorer Trap Oil cancelled several exploration licences – including the Savannah, Valley and Nutmeg prospects – because it was unable to bring in partners to share the costs in the face of low prices.

The government may hold back new exploration licences.

The Norwegian major, Statoil, said it was handing back three "frontier" exploration licences in Greenland.

The government's bureaucrats squandered billions of dollars on oil acquisitions and exploration licences overseas.

Exploration licences are now being issued across the region, in the United States, Canada, Greenland, Norway and Russia.