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...This would ensure that the US could harvest critical minerals from the ocean floor once the ISA has agreed regulations for deep-sea exploration, which may come next year....
...that ocean area....
...Jelta Wong, Papua New Guinea’s minister of fisheries and marine resources, noted that only 3 per cent of the ocean was protected now from fishing or other extractive activities, such as mining or drilling...
...Candidates include Shell, Total and Chevron, which are all drilling, or planning to drill, in the same Orange oil basin....
...Norway is allowing fossil fuel exploration, as well as issuing licences for drilling and deep sea mining for minerals....
...The famous 19th-century view of Martian canals and oceans turned out to be a mirage, and 20th-century astronomers saw a dead desert....
...Almost all international exploration licences are in the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone, in the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii....
...And for hundreds of millions of years our green continents, populated by photosynthesising plants and embedded in blue oceans, have shown colours that are characteristic of life....
...The deal follows a wave of merger and acquisition activity in the US oil and gas sector, as companies seek to acquire dwindling drilling acreage....
...Stephen Altemus, Intuitive’s chief executive and co-founder, said reactivation of the lander was not part of the original plan. “But we will see if it will wake up again,” he told the Financial Times....
...What are the impacts of any efforts associated with things like ocean fertilisation [adding iron to the ocean to stimulate marine growth to absorb CO₂] or ocean colonisation [building human settlements on...
...Stephen Altemus, co-founder and chief executive, told the Financial Times the company aimed to eventually provide a range of lunar services from communications to navigation and even power generation....
...President John F Kennedy’s bold vision for space exploration began as a propaganda ploy, designed to display American might....
...“We see again the efforts to co-operate with repressive regimes,” Catherine Woollard, director of the European Council on Refugees and Exiles, told the Financial Times....
...Overall, Petrobras plans to spend $7.5bn on exploration over the next five years drilling 50 wells, mostly in Brazilian waters....
...As one of the fictional oil conglomerate’s offshore maintenance operatives, he (and therefore you) must help tend to the drilling platforms and pipelines that litter the ocean floor....
...The decision to allow exploration and potentially extraction has drawn fire from everybody from environmentalists and fishing groups to big companies and, most recently, the European parliament....
...Greenpeace released a video late last week showing deep-sea miners using hoses to target activists who were trying to stop exploration in the Pacific Ocean between Mexico and Hawaii....
...(Its full title is the “Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies” — but who has the time to regurgitate...
...The price of Brent crude has surged more than 25 per cent to $95 a barrel since June following co-ordinated cuts in production by Saudi Arabia and Russia....
...In the US, lands leased for oil and gas can also be used for geothermal drilling without having to apply for new permits....
...“There is no way the US rig count grows after the recent wave of consolidation by Exxon, Chevron, Diamondback and Occidental,” said Conrad Gibbins, co-head of the upstream Americas business at Jefferies....
...“The private [exploration and production groups] were the last remaining vectors of that era of very price-cyclical boom and bust growth cycles,” said Matthew Bernstein, senior analyst at consultancy Rystad...
...“We’ve spent a year with the largest fleet of drilling rigs in Southern Africa,” Josh Goldman, founder and president of KoBold Metals, told the Financial Times....
...It is also energy, industry, transport, land use and agriculture. All these have CO₂ reduction targets,” she said....
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