Sentence examples for explored off from inspiring English sources

China's largest offshore project now -- a venture of BP, CNOOC and the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation off the southern coast of Hainan Island -- has 2.05 trillion cubic feet of proven reserves; another series of gas fields being explored off western Hainan by CNOOC might prove to be larger.

More recently he has explored off-beat sports as a means of unearthing sociological patterns.

"Let the states have the option of exploring off the coasts," said Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona, the No. 2 Senate Republican.

The train itself will be warm but you should have thick clothes for when you are exploring off the train.

It's more about exploring off the beaten track, rest and red wine, hearty welcomes and good food.

Last year, BP signed a deal to explore off Brazil and sealed a partnership with Cnooc, the biggest offshore oil producer in China, for South China Sea licenses.

Arguments around the Arctic have more recently centred on oil company drilling such as Shell's controversial and now abandoned attempts to explore off the coast of Alaska and new plans to open up the Norwegian far north.

Seven major oil companies have licenses to explore off Greenland but Cairn will be the only one to begin operations in the short July-October "summer window" when the ice has retreated.

But China's military buildup and the increasing pressure it has been putting on its South China Sea neighbors — by frightening oil companies away from exploring off Vietnam, for example — have raised resentment.

See articleAddax Petroleum agreed to an C$8.3 billion ($7.2 billion) takeover from Sinopec, giving the Chinese state-controlled oil firm access to Addax's operations exploring off the West African coast and developing the Taq Taq field in Iraq.

That came just two weeks after BP agreed to a share swap with Rosneft to form a joint venture to explore off the country's ice-bound northern coast.