Sentence examples for open for drilling from inspiring English sources

The figure, 88percentt, refers only to natural gas reserves open for drilling.

With prices rising, rigs are sprouting throughout the West and Southwest on land that has long been open for drilling.

In short, the pipeline's flow problems are the product of the industry's own design and its belief that large segments of the North Slope — including ANWR — would eventually be open for drilling.

One shudders to think what might have happened if that pocket of protected land had also held oil, as is the case with the imperiled Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, which is poised to open for drilling.

The Alaska National Wildlife Refuge will now be open for drilling.

Public lands reserved from drilling by G.H.W. Bush and untouched, even by his dissolute son, are now open for drilling.

MOSCOW — Exxon Mobil won a coveted prize in the global petroleum industry Tuesday with an agreement to explore for oil in a Russian portion of the Arctic Ocean that is being opened for drilling even as Alaskan waters remain mostly off limits.

The other Dan Sullivan also thinks ANWR should be opened for drilling.

At the end of 2006, the Republican Congress and the president enacted "The Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act," which opened for drilling 8 million acres of the Outer Continental shelf estimated to contain more than 40 billion barrels of oil.

As Forbes has reported in the past, the U.S. likely has ample domestic reserves located under federally owned lands to satisfy all demand, if only the government would open it for drilling.

But lawmakers from both parties in those coastal states have pushed for years to open their waters for drilling.