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A lawmaker said he introduced the bill after the state proposed a permit to allow drilling near the river in Calhoun County. TALLAHASSEE, Florida — The Florida state House on Wednesday voted ...
Banks such as JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs, along with leading insurers, refuse to support Arctic drilling. When the world’s biggest financial players won’t touch these projects ...
Transocean’s Deepwater Thalassa drillship is currently under contract to Shell but will be under contract to Woodside starting March 2026 and running to March 2029. Woodside let a deepwater ...
Strata Minerals’ maiden drilling has potentially identified the top of a key structural zone at Target 1 in Penny South Drilling also intersected gold mineralisation at Target 3 that remains open ...
Florida legislation seeks to ban oil drilling near Apalachicola Bay to protect the recovering shellfish industry. But a proposed amendment would limit the drilling ban to counties designated as ...
The well was spudded on February 17 using the Noble Venturer drillship and reached a total depth of 16,263 feet on April 2, the statement revealed, adding that the well found over 124 feet of net ...
New oil well drilling in Russia has accelerated to the fastest in five years despite the recent oil price decline, Bloomberg has reported, suggesting the pick-up in activity anticipates a further ...
Rhino Resources and partners will perform post drilling analysis following a successful test of a light-oil discovery offshore Orange basin, Namibia. Rhino Resources and partners will perform ...
Protesters gather at the Florida Department of Environmental Protection to stop drilling in the Apalachicola River Basin The Florida Senate has strengthened its proposal to limit drilling in the ...
“About 70% of the capital that exploration companies raise goes to drilling,” Ted Feldmann, founder and CEO of Durin, told TechCrunch. “Drilling is prohibitively expensive.” So ...
Offshore drilling contractor Vantage Drilling has received a conditional letter of award (CLOA) for the Platinum Explorer ultra-deepwater drillship, valued at approximately $80 million. The CLOA, with ...
I’ve witnessed many challenges to our coastline and economy. But none pose a greater threat than offshore oil drilling. The risk of a catastrophic oil spill is simply too high — and it’s a ...