Sentence examples for onshore exploration from inspiring English sources
"Round One" of the tendering process will also include a number of onshore exploration blocks (see map).
High-impact West African offshore exploration of recent years appears over for the time being and East African onshore exploration does not give equivalent returns, in our view.
The relationship will last for decades, he declared, with a likely next stage being joint-venture onshore exploration projects.The company used to pride itself on size, and its newly shrunken state still takes some getting used to.
If Pyongyang approves the processing deal, Sungri could reach full operational capacity by the first quarter of 2015, he said; the Mongolian oil firm also has exclusive rights to onshore exploration, development and production of hydrocarbons.
"In the absence of any specific regulations for unconventional onshore exploration and production, with the regulatory bodies having little experience and no funding to make them capable of implementing and monitoring regulation, never mind giving detail consideration to planning applications, this is a recipe for disaster," he said.
The onshore exploration realm has been continuously expanded to (ultra-) deep oil and gas recently in China.
And the northerners have begun their own onshore explorations, starting in Sinirustu.
With the nation's breakthroughs in deep and ultra-deep well drilling techniques and equipment, onshore petroleum exploration has continued to extend toward deep and ultra-deep levels (Sun et al. 2010); petroleum exploration has also undergone a transition from shallow to deep and further to ultra-deep levels.
The Horse Hill licences cover 55 square miles of the Weald Basin in southern England - an area that has been heavily licenced for onshore oil exploration.
The company said foreign assets in Trinidad and elsewhere are more likely to be sold off than North Sea fields although it admitted that its small but significant interest in UK onshore shale exploration is "under review".
Onshore, the exploration model usually entails field observations, the use of potential and seismic methods and, finally, drilling exploratory wells.
