Sentence examples for spur exploration from inspiring English sources

Halliburton, the world's second-biggest oilfield contractor, offered 1.71 billion pounds ($3.4 billion) for Expro International Group, topping a bid by Candover Partners and Goldman Sachs, as record crude prices spur exploration.

As the fight over gasoline prices reached the floors of both the House and Senate, the Democratic initiative to spur exploration in areas where drilling has been sanctioned fell short of the margin needed under rules used to bring the measure to the floor even though it drew majority support.

Although limited reserves of oil had been struck during the 19th century, the strike at Spindletop near Beaumont in 1901 gained national attention, spurring exploration and development that continued through the 1920s and beyond.

The government passed legislation in 2010 to spur offshore exploration.

It has also provided tax incentives to spur the exploration of new oil reserves.

Indonesia has few proven reserves, but high prices may well spur further exploration.

Mr. Larsen also expects that the show will spur further exploration of what is produced in Okinawa.

Following the earlier scares of the 1970s, oil companies defied the pessimists by finding extra fields, not least since higher prices had spurred new exploration.

Just as the Arab boycotts of an earlier era spurred robust exploration in Alaska and the development of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, the recent oil price spike from 2004 to 2008 spurred an even more impressive expansion of domestic drilling across Texas, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Louisiana and in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

Serendipitous clinical observations that pain symptoms may improve independently of muscle hyperactivity and with a different time course after BoNT injection have spurred the exploration of the mechanisms underlying this effect in animal models and the collection of evidence in clinical settings [16].

Harris's fourth book makes no bones about what spurred scientific exploration: money, politics, power.