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Proposed Energy Exploration Sparks Worry on Ocean Canyons
2013-01-21 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Your jaws gonna fricking drop, the guy fishing next to me said, when after, like, three minutes, you still havent hit bottom. These words were spoken to me last September as I dropped a three-pound weight and two globs of clam bait over the side of the party fishing boat Viking Star into an abyss few people know exist -- an abyss that is re-emerging as a battleground in the fight for the worlds dwindling natural resources. I was fishing 150 miles off Long Island in a bioregion commonly...
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Shell's plans in Arctic at risk as Obama advisers call for halt to oil exploration
2013-01-18 21:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The entire future of Shell's drilling plans in the Arctic was put in doubt on Friday after two of Barack Obama's most trusted advisers called for a permanent halt to oil exploration. In a piece for Bloomberg news, Carol Browner, who was Obama's climate adviser during his first two years in office, and John Podesta, who headed his 2009 transition team, said they now believed there was no safe way to drill for oil in the Arctic. Their opinions come at a critical time for Shell, which has invested...
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway Announces Dong E&P Norge AS Receives Consent To Conduct Exploration Drilling In Block 3/7
2013-01-17 01:17:24| oilandgasonline News Articles
Dong E&P Norge AS (Dong) has received consent to conduct exploration drilling in block 3/7. The well will be drilled with the Mærsk Giant mobile drilling facility.
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Chevron buys exploration blocks in Pearl River Mouth Basin, offshore China
2013-01-17 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
US-based energy company Chevron said its subsidiary Chevron China Energy Company has signed production sharing contracts (PSC) with China National Offshore Oil (CNOOC), for two exploration blocks in the Pearl River Mouth Basin in the South China Sea.
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Chevron Corp. inks exploration deals off China coast
2013-01-16 21:10:40| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
San Ramon-based Chevron made the deals via a subsidiary to work with China National Offshore Oil Corp., or CNOOC in the Pearl River Mouth Basin.
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