Sentence examples for licences to explore from inspiring English sources
Cuadrilla's current licences to explore for oil at Balcombe in West Sussex, expire later this month, and the company had been seeking an extension.
A few months after signing the memorandum, China Sonangol was granted licences to explore two oilfields in the Lake Rukwa basin in south-west Tanzania.
Three foreign companies Royal Dutch Shell, Falcon Oil & Gas and Sunset Energy–have been granted licences to explore for gas.If the EIA estimates are accurate, the shale gas fields in the Karoo would be the fifth largest in the world.
Last month, an Australian company was given the green light to begin construction of a zinc and lead mine on the northern coast; there are currently 56 active licences to explore mining for gold, rubies, diamonds, nickel, copper and other minerals elsewhere.
As passed by the Senate, it offers private firms a variety of contracts, including licences to explore and drill for oil, and would allow them to book oil reserves, or the expected revenue-streams from them, for financial-reporting purposes (though hydrocarbons below the ground remain state property).
In Wales, 14 licences to explore for gas have been issued.
They give other people licence to explore themselves more deeply, allowing the colours in their own psyche to flourish".
The Government has teamed up with US defence giant Lockheed Martin and secured a licence to explore an area twice the size of Wales in the Pacific Ocean.
Lord Howard is chairman of Soma Oil and Gas, a company that has been accused of bribing Somali officials to obtain a licence to explore and extract oil offshore.
He began courting the General and, in a decision that left the mining world flabbergasted, Conté stripped Rio of the mining rights and handed a licence to explore half of the Simandou region to Mr Steinmetz.
The company has a licence to explore a 2,200 sq km area of the southern Highlands for gold and it now believes there could be up to five times as much gold in the Tyndrum area.
