Commercial and recreational fishing will be completely banned, as will oil, gas and mineral prospecting, exploration and mining.
Its activities include prospecting, exploration, and operation of oil and gas fields; manufacturing and marketing of petroleum and petrochemical products; gas processing; crude oil refining and associated petroleum gas processing; production of different types of petroleum and petrochemical products; wholesale and retail sales of fuel, and related goods and services.
But the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry later released a statement saying the research ship had been operating in a zone controlled by Venezuela, and it protested "the activities of scientific prospecting and exploration of the Venezuelan continental shelf and seafloor".
Early business practice taught us that In everything from patents, to infrastructure like railways or canals, to prospecting and exploration in mining and even Internet domain squatting, the early bird catches the worm.
It is believed that this type of information is useful within the context of wave propagation studies in non-homogeneous continua, which in turn find applications in fields as diverse as laminated composites, geophysical prospecting, oil exploration and earthquake engineering.
The electrical resistivity and induced polarization (IP) methods are widely used in geological mapping, prospecting and exploration of mineral deposits, engineering geology, hydrogeology, archaeology, and geotechnical and environmental applications.
This was true even in new cases, such as for genetic prospecting for exploration of biodiversity.
During the uneasy thaw that followed Khrushchev's 1956 denunciation and what became known as the "era of liberalisation", the prospect of space exploration generated huge excitement in the USSR.
Libya is considered the second-most-important exploration prospect in the world this year, outranked only by Britain with its large fields in the North Sea, according to a list compiled in May by Fugro Robertson, a British energy consulting firm.
When the trustees became immersed recently in a battle over a proposed nightclub at 38 Gramercy Park North, the unthinkable prospect sparked the exploration of a precedent-setting punishment: if 38 Gramercy's board persisted in bringing a bar to the park, a direct affront to the 1831 Ruggles indenture, perhaps the building deserved to forfeit its park keys.
