Sentence examples for halt its drilling from inspiring English sources

Exxon was supposed to halt its drilling with Rosneft.

The company will halt its drilling season in the nearby Beaufort Sea for around three weeks to allow the Eskimos there to kill their quota of whales.

XTO has since halted its drilling operation and provided residents with bottled water.

A few weeks earlier, Royal Dutch Shell had announced it was halting its $7 billion oil drilling effort in the Chukchi Sea.

A motion put to the Norwegian parliament last year to halt new drilling because it is incompatible with Norway's climate change policies was defeated by 95 votes to three.

The Obama Administration declined a request to use its veto power to temporarily halt gas drilling in the Delaware River Basin, which supplies half of New York City's water.

While some advocates have called for the state to halt drilling as it assesses the flood damage, Gov. John W. Hickenlooper, a Democrat and former oil geologist, batted down the idea, saying a relatively small amount of oil had spilled.

That permission came from the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), which previously required the company to halt drilling before it approached oil deposits.

As a result of this, perhaps the best chance to halt the drilling may still lie in congressional action.

On Wednesday, the Bureau of Land Management approved a request by AltaRock to halt the drilling operation temporarily, said a bureau spokeswoman, Jan Bedrosian.

One day ivory-colored plugs that look like candle wax are plastered on the trunk, a sign the tree is pumping out resin to try to halt a drilling bug.