Deep Water Oil Drilling Gulf Mexico 2012
Monday, January 2nd, 2012By early 2012 there will be more rigs in the Gulf designed to drill in its deep water defined as 2,000 feet or deeper — than before the spill. Two hundred miles off the coast of Texas, ribbons of pipe are reaching for oil and natural gas deeper below the ocean’s surface than ever before. [...]
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Deepwater Oil and Gas Exploration Approved Since Macando Oil Well Blowout
Friday, March 25th, 2011Deepwater oil and gas exploration plan since last year’s Macondo oil well blowout, giving Shell Offshore the green light to seek drilling permits for three new wells 130 miles off the Louisiana coast. The announcement by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement Director Michael Bromwich won praise from [...]
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New Oil Drilling Technique in Western US Investing Across Company by 2015
Friday, February 11th, 2011New oil drilling technique is opening up vast fields of previously out-of-reach oil in the western United States, helping reverse a two-decade decline in domestic production of crude. Companies are investing billions of dollars to get at oil deposits scattered across North Dakota, Colorado, Texas and California. By 2015, oil executives and analysts say, the [...]