Méliès's most celebrated image, known to millions who have never seen any of his movies, is a close-up of the man in the moon smacked in the eye by an exploratory rocket ship.
But the trend will likely continue upward, perhaps interrupted by short oversupply panics as well as the usual refinery fires, pipeline breaks, political posturing in producing nations, natural disasters, field depletions, dry-hole exploratory disappointments, shipping interruptions and the like.
As we walked, he described how Dutch ships first arrived on the island in September, 1598, when a party of sailors from an eight-ship exploratory fleet — on its faltering way to what is now Indonesia — came ashore at a beach not far from where we were.
Institutes across Taiwan had ramped up research programs in anticipation of capitalizing on the new ship's exploratory equipment and on-board laboratories.
Hall returned to the ship from an exploratory sledging journey, and promptly fell ill.
He says the name Birú was that of a common Indian happened upon by the crew of a ship on an exploratory mission for governor Pedro Arias de Ávila, and goes on to relate many more instances of misunderstandings due to the lack of a common language.
Shell has planned to begin exploratory drilling this summer using a ship-based drill that could begin making its way from the Philippines this month.
Describing the trip as exploratory, the commissioner, Linda I. Gibbs, said the ships "might be the next best thing" as an alternative solution to housing the city's record-high homeless population.
Aiming to validate coastal altimetry data, an exploratory experiment was carried out, using a survey ship with onboard GPS and motion compensation systems.
Unlike the eyewitness accounts or the suppositions about how the earthquakes or tides might have affected the whales, the panel was provided with rich quantitative detail of the exploratory sonar work being done by EMEPNML's ship M/V Teknik Perdana roughly 65 kilometers away from the incident in the days preceding the whale stranding in 2008.
