Sentence examples for permit to drill from inspiring English sources

The company released a statement on Wednesday saying, "We are pleased to have received a permit to drill".

Pipeline construction is almost completed in North Dakota, but the company building it, Energy Transfer Partners, still lacks a final permit to drill under the river.

The decision canceled Shell's permit to drill at a prospect called Sivulliq, about 16 miles off northern Alaska, and ordered the agency to begin the process from scratch.

He noted that government auditors had warned that the agency still faced huge challenges and that oil industry executives continued to complain that it took too long to get a permit to drill a well.

In addition, the new secretary must press forward on Mr. Salazar's plans to regulate hydraulic fracturing on public lands and move with utmost caution before granting Shell a final permit to drill in Arctic waters.

Now, the Suffolk County Water Authority, which provides water to 85percentt of the county, is presenting two separate arguments to the state in asking for a permit to drill for water in the Lloyd Aquifer.

Mr. Gowers said that the rig was permitted to drill to 20,211 feet and that it drilled to 18,360 feet.

Mr Romney wants to expand offshore drilling dramatically and encourage onshore oil by allowing states a free hand to decide about permits to drill on federal land.

The industry is also generously permitted to drill on critical wildlife winter range (close to 90percentt of all their requests to drill on winter range have been granted).

Equally, when the government hands out permits to drill, it will want to deal only with counterparties with pockets deep enough to take on such potential liabilities.

Also in May, the President announced plans to increase domestic oil production by speeding up permits to drill off the coast of Alaska and in the Gulf of Mexico.