Sentence examples for temporary drilling from inspiring English sources

Although the Obama administration lifted its temporary drilling ban in October, the government is enforcing a range of new safety regulations.

At one Cuadrilla site, Hesketh Bank, planning permission for the temporary drilling rig was granted by Lancashire county council and a notice was stuck on a private track far from the main road.

The Interior Department's temporary drilling moratorium was immediately challenged by the drilling industry, prompting U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman of the Eastern District of Louisiana to rule in June 2010 that the government could not enforce it.

She said that a temporary drill ban, even if it only lasted a few months, could affect as many as 330,000 people in Louisiana alone.

Another group that has no place in the settlement is made up of people who say they suffered economic losses caused by the temporary gulf drilling moratorium imposed by the Obama administration.

In Water and Environmental Sanitation (WES), UNICEF provided drinking water to temporary settlements, drilled boreholes and built a large gravity-fed system.

A few communities have declared a temporary moratorium on drilling permits, and Dallas set up a task force last week to examine drilling regulations within its city limits.

Last month, the Interior Department moved to institute a temporary ban on drilling in the Arctic's Beaufort and Chukchi seas between 2017 and 2022, thereby limiting offshore drilling to the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska's Cook Inlet.

BP's production in the gulf has dropped sharply in the past two years because of repairs as well as a temporary halt on drilling after the 2010 accident.

BP's output in the Gulf of Mexico, a crucial profit center, has dropped sharply to 219,000 barrels a day in 2012, from about 338,000 in 2010, because it divested itself of oil and gas fields there, as well as the temporary moratorium on drilling that was imposed after the spill.

The bucks that would come flowing into the cash-strapped region were a great enough good that it was worth the temporary disruption the drilling would cause.