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...“The issues are similar to those in space exploration,” said Alex Brearley, a BAS oceanographer....
...The project has been stalled for years due to a legal dispute involving Wright and Hancock Prospecting, the company controlled by Australia’s richest person Gina Rinehart, but exploration work is set to...
...Paradoxically, high prices are partly the result of cuts to exploration budgets after investors pulled their money....
...As we carefully crossed the pressure ridges between floes, we found ourselves in pearly white forests of piled-up ice....
...Explora puts great emphasis on its range of activities (what it calls “explorations”)....
...You might also point to the decade-long experience of Rockhopper Exploration and its 1.7bn barrel Sea Lion prospect in the North Falklands Basin....
...Most of those were linked to cuts in the valuations of exploration and production and nuclear assets at the British Gas owner as commodity price forecasts have come down, though restructuring costs added...
...That act, the most audacious and theatrical part of a bid to claim the Pole, came almost 300 years after Russia’s Arctic exploration began....
...There’s even a six-course degustation menu at Elm Dining so I don’t have to go hungry. It’s on my walk back that I notice an unusual roadside warning: DANGER, FALLING PINE CONES....
...And just down the road in Nine Elms, another swimming pool has also been making waves....
...Oilfield service groups remain in urgent need of new work in the North Sea and elsewhere after the deepest downturn in oil and gas exploration and development for a generation....
...Over the past decade, ISA has given out 15-year exploration contracts to 29 countries or companies, covering more than 1.4m square kilometres....
...Last year, only 14 exploration wells and 8 appraisal wells were drilled....
...In March, BP won its biggest award of new exploration licences in UK waters since the 1990s and the group is planning to drill five wells this year in a sign that it still sees potential for fresh discoveries...
...Another major BP development project — Clair Ridge, also west of the Shetland Islands — is expected to start production next year....
...The land purchase had been seen as a risky bet for Wanda given a downturn in the market for luxury homes, although it still owns the One Nine Elms development site in the same area....
...It also added another $900m to the kitty through the sale of its stake in the Bongkot gasfield in Thailand to Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company....
...In recent weeks BP has invested $3.4bn in exploration and production assets in Abu Dhabi, Mauritania and Senegal....
...The company gathered the images for Everest, last year’s 3D cinema blockbuster, and worked with Solfar to turn them into a 3D model using a process known as photogrammetry....
...Mining companies have steered clear of investing in opal mining and towns such as Coober Pedy....
...The next day brought more sedate company....
...companies such as Royal Dutch Shell and Cairn Energy billions of dollars....
...Simply put, a col is nothing more than the lowest point on a hilly ridge, but Robb finds them captivating — magical portals from one valley to the next, many imbued with myths and legends....
...Exploration and appraisal activity on the UK continental shelf continued to fall last year, with the number of exploration wells declining 18 per cent to just 23....
...But the recent exploration record has been poor....
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