Sentence examples for for exploratory oil from inspiring English sources

Another is a plan for exploratory oil drilling that Dia officials argued would disrupt the way the work would be viewed and potentially harm it physically.

And in yet a further kind of new activity abetted by warming seas, Royal Dutch Shell is preparing for exploratory oil drilling off Alaska's Arctic coast beginning next year.

A13 New Drilling Planned in Alaska Citing a need for energy, the government plans to open for exploratory oil and natural gas drilling thousands of acres on Alaska's North Slope that have been protected for decades because of migratory birds and caribou.

It followed legal action by WSCC to obtain a High Court possession order for roadside verges at Balcombe, where protesters had camped since the summer outside the site used by energy firm Cuadrilla for exploratory oil drilling.

The council obtained a High Court possession order for roadside verges at Balcombe, where protesters had camped since the summer outside the site used by energy firm Cuadrilla for exploratory oil drilling.

Lucas, 53, the MP for Brighton Pavilion, was among a group of protesters who had linked arms outside energy company Cuadrilla's exploratory oil drilling site in Balcombe, West Sussex, in August.

Only three exploratory oil wells were drilled in 2011, down from more than 20 in 2005.

The firm has partially drilled an exploratory oil well on the site, which was abandoned by oil company Conoco in the 1980s.

Environmentalists have warned that even exploratory oil wells can disrupt fragile reef ecosystems, while the smallest oil spill could could have a devastating environmental impact.

"At the moment Cuadrilla are drilling an exploratory oil well in Balcombe," said a DECC spokesperson.

In the course of her dive, Juhasz also discovered new exploratory oil activity on the erstwhile BP lease area.