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...He grew up in Louisiana, where his father worked as a wildcatter drilling for oil. After completing an MBA at Harvard, he took over the family business....
...and deep- fried salted rice cakes – and collecting....
...Hopson, who is from Louisiana, wants his case heard before a jury....
...New Mexico At the sharp end of the drilling ban The lunar landscape of New Mexico is unique, even in the US....
...The advanced hull design, with a deep-V, 22-degree angle of deadrise along the keel to cut through the seas, is a marvel....
...Rising water production (an existing concern for investors) does not appear to have been the issue. Hurricane have elected to shut-in the -7Z well and produce only from the -6 well....
...The magic money tree has set down deep roots....
...The writer is the FT’s West Coast managing editor Man v machine moments As America industrialised in the 19th century, a star railroad worker named John Henry is said to have started a rock-drilling contest...
...This week, President Barack Obama sought to shore up his environmental legacy by declaring Arctic waters “indefinitely” off-limits for drilling for oil and gas....
...Although he was born into a working-class family in Nagpur, western India in 1924, Vasudeo Santu Gaitonde (known as V. S.) succeeded in winning a place at the J.J. School of Art in Bombay....
...The regulator’s decision was met with outrage from environmental groups, which have opposed Shell’s drilling programme both because of the risk of a spill in the vulnerable waters of the Arctic, and because...
...Officials at the industry ministry are promoting research into deep geothermal power, found kilometres underground, but it will take costly exploration and drilling....
...But the EU may hit choppy waters over the next four or five years which will make it an unattractive market compared with the rest of the world....
...The prime examples of Moulthrop work are to be found in major collections: the White House Collection of American Crafts, the presidential libraries of William J Clinton and George HW Bush, the V&A in London...
...BG has attractive positions in some of the industry’s most interesting long-term prospects, including oil in the deep water off Brazil and gas off the coast of Tanzania....
...The leases it bid for in this week’s sale are all in the gulf’s deep water, which BP sees as an area where it has competitive strength....
...In its glory days, BP prided itself both on its technological prowess in drilling in deep water and Arctic conditions, and its ability to foster stable relations with dodgy regimes in swamp-infested territories...
...The aligned parties say another reason why BP was reckless is that for decades it had ignored its obligations to prepare for a spill in deep water....
...Total of France, Cobalt’s partner at the North Platte prospect in deep waters off the coast of Louisiana, said the discovery of several hundred feet of oil-bearing rock pointed to a potential discovery of...
...There, mass extraction using the technique called “fracking” – injecting a mixture of water, sand and chemicals deep underground at high pressure to fracture shale rock and extract gas trapped in the formations...
...In those years I spent a lot of time out in the regions; I worked side by side with ordinary workers on drilling rigs and in the oil fields; at times we even ate “from the same pot”....
...BP has cleared the last hurdle to returning to the deep water of the Gulf of Mexico, receiving its first permit to drill a new well from US regulators since last year’s devastating spill....
...Data from the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, the new offshore regulator, show that in 2009, 330 deep water drilling permits were granted, compared to just 218 in the 12 months to date....
...Analysts and industry executives have said that although gulf production was hit by last year’s six-month moratorium on deep water drilling and a slowdown in the award of drilling permits since then, the...
...Chevron, the second-largest US oil group by market capitalisation, has announced a potentially large discovery in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, confirming the region’s high potential after the problems...
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