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...They're going to be operated much like we might operate an outpost in the Outback or, say, on an offshore platform....
...However, the proposal by the US interior department ruled out new exploration along the Atlantic and Pacific coastlines....
...Offshore oil drilling has also proved unpopular outside its traditional confines of Texas and Louisiana....
...Gerald Kepes is president of Competitive Energy Strategies, LLC, an energy consultancy based in Washington DC....
...“[We] used to [have] major employment there until those jobs went away in the last 20 years” as supply chains moved offshore....
...How the BHP deal stacks up Bernard Looney, BP’s head of exploration and production, said that the Lower 48 business was now a “heartland” for the company....
...William New, president of New Industries in Morgan City, Louisiana, which makes pressure vessels, piping and the like for offshore projects, is still waiting for the good times to roll again....
...Andrew Inglis, Kosmos chief executive, said the company wanted to widen its shareholder base beyond the US, where offshore exploration has been eclipsed by onshore shale oil and gas production in investors...
...Mexico has become a rare bright spot in offshore exploration since the 2014 oil price crash after reforms opened the country’s waters to international investment....
...Under its five-year plan, the energy ministry intends to auction more than 500 exploration blocks, mainly concentrated offshore. Since July 12 the government has been anticipating a boost in interest....
...BP has raised its medium-term growth forecasts while Royal Dutch Shell has given the go-ahead for its first new offshore project for almost two years, in a sign of returning confidence at the oil and gas...
...Petrobras, Brazil’s state-controlled oil company that will be Shell’s partner in some of the country’s vast offshore fields, is mired in a corruption scandal....
...’s worst offshore oil spill....
...The company’s US exploration and production subsidiary would pay the Clean Water Act penalty as well as $7.1bn to the US and the five states for natural resources damages....
...“That is easy in Texas or Louisiana where you can put nodding donkeys all over the place, but it is less easy when you’re next to Gatwick airport.”...
...The implications for those engaged in oil exploration and production, as well as those developing alternatives such as electric cars or renewable fuels, are obvious....
...Linn Energy, Breitburn Energy and offshore oil producer Energy XXI are among the companies that have less than half of their revolving credit facilities still unused and available, while Clayton Williams...
...Four years ago, he was labelled America’s most hated man as his company, BP, battled to contain the worst offshore oil spill in US history....
...In luring such European energy giants into Black Sea offshore exploration and Ukraine’s broader energy equation, Yanukovich demonstrates that he is not turning his back on Europe altogether....
...The company and two investment groups have closed a $110m transaction to acquire working interests in two oil and natural gas production blocks and a platform about 150 miles offshore from Louisiana....
...Despite its deep waters, the Gulf of Mexico has been among the most inviting of offshore locales. It has been run fairly and the tax regime is attractive....
...He has recruited David Ginger, who led Cairn India’s exploration team in the Indian subcontinent, as director of exploration at the new venture....
...Last summer, Warburg also announced an investment of $300m in Hawkwood Energy, a Denver oil and gas exploration company that was only set up last year....
...Phase one, which ran from February to April, covered the causes of the accident on April 20 2010, which killed 11 men and started what may have been the world’s largest accidental offshore oil spill....
...“Particularly with exploration wells, it’s not uncommon to have cost overruns.”...
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