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...“Yet sometimes it feels easier to fund Mars exploration than to clean up water here on our own rock.”...
...Meanwhile, Cousteau’s son Jean-Michel has co-directed Wonders of the Sea 3D, a dazzling exploration of marine life. Increasingly, cinema is at the forefront of the eco-conversation....
...The company laid off about 10,000 workers at its offshore and marine unit last year....
...orders from energy companies — which for several years filled the gap created by declining military sales — have fallen off sharply after the oil price plunge since last summer made expensive offshore oil exploration...
...Nautilus Minerals has also been awarded exploration licences in international waters by the ISA....
...It is for a different mineral, in a very different marine environment using different extraction methods,” the company says....
...Space was where we were all going to live and work – Moon bases and hotels, everything in Stanley Kubrick’s futuristic 2001: A Space Odyssey....
...Martin’s Press, RRP$26.99/£18.99, 480 pages The Odyssey of KP2: An Orphan Seal, a Marine Biologist, and the Fight to Save a Species, by Terrie Williams, Penguin Press, RRP$27.95, 304 pages Zoo Story: Life...
...Marine this year won $17bn of orders for other types of rigs....
...But for most capital-intensive ventures, such as marine and tidal energy, it is often inadequate....
...“If you look at exploration throughout time, much of it has been driven by the search for resources,” he said....
...Odyssey Marine, a US-listed deep-ocean exploration company, was awarded the contract to salvage the vessel last year and said it was entitled to keep 80 per cent of the net value of the cargo....
...“We expect 10 per cent of the global marine seismic fleet could be in Angola in the second quarter of 2012,” he added....
...“Following the farm-out to BP, Chariot has taken a significant step closer towards the more active phase of exploration and remains on track to drill two high-impact exploration wells offshore Namibia before...
...Inpex, the energy exploration company, leapt 6.8 per cent to Y580,000, while rival Japan Petroleum Exploration soared 7.4 per cent to Y3,825....
...In 1668, Edward Lloyd’s Coffee House in Lombard Street became the gathering point for ship owners and marine insurance brokers....
...That was one of the reasons why Conoco was a founding partner with ExxonMobil, Royal Dutch Shell and Chevron in the Marine Well Containment Company, which was formed after BP’s Macondo disaster to provide...
...Oracle’s odyssey Oracle Coalfields, which is developing the first large open-cast lignite coal mine in Pakistan, has announced plans to move from Plus to Aim in the second quarter....
...When, as now, political instability pushes up the price of oil, it makes deepwater oil and gas exploration and development more economically attractive....
...A rich area for marine biodiversity, the Mediterranean is extremely sensitive to pollution....
...In other deal news, Odyssey Marine Exploration, which specialises in recovering goods from shipwrecks, announced that it had bought a minority stake in SMM Project....
...Force Protection was down 0.3 per cent to $6.52 in spite of news that the company had won a $26.1m contract from the US Marine Corps for additional field service support....
...His broad coverage universe includes small- and medium-sized companies in the onshore and offshore drilling, well servicing, offshore supply vessel, subsea production, compression, energy infrastructure, marine...
...Analyst Phil Corbett was upbeat on Premier’s exploration programme and said the recent gains for the oil price made the stock’s discount against peers “even more untenable”....
...The company, which employs 60 people, plans to adapt its technology for ship-based marine surveys....
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