Sentence examples for offshore prospect from inspiring English sources

In 2006 McMoran was a minority partner with ExxonMobil in an offshore prospect called West Blackbeard, which Exxon later abandoned.

Also in 2008, the oil and gas industry began new biological assessment programs (Chukchi Sea Offshore Monitoring in Drilling Area: Chemical and Benthos) in the Chukchi Sea in response to the sale of leases for new offshore prospect areas.

According to Mr Fu, CNOOC's chairman, "our offshore prospects are just beginning.

This creates opportunities for the likes of Chevron to buy promising offshore prospects from smaller rivals (or even from BP) and to extend its deepwater success.

The review will cover: the global resource and its assessment; wind turbine technology and its recent up-scaling and evolution; offshore prospects and engineering challenges; and the research required to underpin these developments.

While these rising costs had made rival countries such as China (where English was mandatory in all schools) and West African nations such as Ghana more attractive offshoring prospects, American and European companies also were finding that the farther down the economic-development scale they went, the greater the potential for cultural conflicts, government corruption, and employee inefficiency.

The islands' nationalistic government and offshore oil prospects have awakened old dreams of political and economic independence from Denmark, which provides them with $130 million each year.

Russia, where onshore oil reserves are slowly dwindling, last month signed an Arctic exploration deal with the British petroleum giant BP, whose offshore drilling prospects in the United States were dimmed by the Gulf of Mexico disaster last year.

BG owns a stake in some of Brazil's most promising offshore oil prospects, but Chapman would not be drawn on reports that the group was considering selling part of its stake to China's Sinopec.

Scotland contains some of Europe's best offshore wind prospects but they remain almost entirely unexploited.MATTHEW SPENCERGreenpeace UKLondonSIR The issue of shares in revenue from the North Sea would be determined largely by agreements embodied in the legislation dissolving the United Kingdom before, as you suggest, arbitration at the International Court of Justice.

Alaska's Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) is one of the last remaining large offshore hydrocarbon prospects in the nation, and is the target of both current and future leasing plans.