Sentence examples for oil expedition from inspiring English sources

The 15 activists, part of a group called the Climate Justice Collective, were protesting about Shell's exploratory oil expedition off the coast of Alaska that began this week but was halted on Monday after sea ice was seen drifting towards the company's drilling vessel.

Pilots also have to land on the ships that support giant oil drilling expeditions.

These potentially dangerous oil drilling expeditions in remote terrains yield an insignificant amount of oil at best.

Bruce had now fixed his main hopes on the discovery of oil, but scientific expeditions in 1919 and 1920 failed to provide evidence of its presence, although substantial new deposits of coal and iron ore were discovered.

That afternoon, too, on our radar, we saw the only other boats outside our convoy that we'd encounter on the Northern Sea Route: the Geofizik and the Geolog Dmitriy Nalivkin — the ExxonMobil/Rosneft seismic expedition, searching for oil.

In the wake of the BP disaster, we should hit the pause button on further oil development and launch further scientific expeditions to learn more about the giant squid and its mysterious undersea world.

Oceana said it had documented 82 protected marine species during an expedition it conducted in the oil blocs.

I am retracing this territory by developing Unknown Landscapes, a series of oil paintings based on photographic plates from these expeditions.

Richard Archbold, grandson of Standard oil's John D. Archbold, & mammalogist, finances these expeditions.

Paul Bennett, head of mission for the Society of Libyan Studies, which oversees British archaeological expeditions to the country, agreed that an oil spill would be disastrous for the coastal sites.

Cabral extracted essential oils through hydrodistillation in Cameroon during a 1-month expedition in collaboration with the University of Yaoundé 1 and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.