While drilling in that depth of water was prohibitively expensive a decade ago, it's now easy for a company Triton's size to rent a drillship to find the oil and set up a floating production platform to process it.
Mr Uren was taking part in a relay race in which services personnel had to run up to the inflatable pool, get in over the side and grab a piece of plastic fruit floating in or under a shallow depth of water.
The depth of the water was up to 3ft, and of course business and ordinary life were disrupted.
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After each attack, the scientists recorded the precise geographical location and the depth of the water, as well as whether the attack was successful or not.
Even before sonar depth sounders were available, navigators would also use lead lines to determine the depth of the water as a cross check on where they were.
The depth of the water layer is crucial.
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The discovery is located about 140 km west of Stavanger, Norway, in a water depth of 112 meters.
Offshore zone: extends from the low water mark to a water depth of about 15 m (49 ft) and is permanently covered with water.
In an email Thursday to oil and gas industry officials, a senior MMS official wrote: "Until further notice we have been informed not to approve or allow any drilling, " regardless of water depth.
Last year came Tonga, which was drilled in 5, 000 feet of water but set a vertical depth record of 31, 800 feet.
Last year came Tonga, which was drilled in 5, 000 feet of water but set a vertical-depth record of 31, 800 feet.
Drilled in 6, 127 feet of water, and extending down to a total depth of 31, 866, Coronado was revealed to have more than 400 feet of net pay, including oil.
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If the Earth were perfectly smooth, it would be covered everywhere with water to a depth of 4 kilometers.
The floatable bags operate in extreme temperatures of -22F to 140F and protect against water submersion for 30 minutes at a depth of 1 meter, also designed with room to accommodate a few small items such as credit cards, bandages, etc.
Mr Jones said added that the water depth at the end of the pier was now less than 12ft.
The heat exchangers and pipework required to make a 10MW plant already exist, but the 100MW facility will need a pipe that is not only 1km long (in order to reach the cold water at depth) but ten metres in diameter (in order to bring enough of that cold water to the surface).
The rig was aground in an area of Ocean Bay, where water depth is 32 feet to 48 feet.
It's water resistant up to a depth of one meter and can hold its breath for 30 minutes, while a 4-inch WVGA display will beam out Android 4.1.
Typically, capital costs will expand with distance from land and water depth and contract as the size of a project increases.
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The road was closed after the River Ouse flooded during recent heavy rains, with water in the area reaching a depth of 1.35m (4.5ft) in places.
To that end, it bears IP certification for dust- and water-proofing (up to 30 minutes at a depth of one meter).
Water coming up from below will often have a lower pH than the surface water, because at depth there is no photosynthesis but plenty of respiration.
To begin with, the vertical depth separation between drinking water aquifers and reservoir targets for gas production is several thousand feet of impermeable rock.
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The water fell as rain around 10, 000 years ago and then sank to a depth of about 2km.
The water there is a modest 150 feet deep, and wells would go to a depth of 10, 000 feet.
The risks of a spill are lower because the target is primarily gas, and the shallow water depth (approx. 100 ft) allows the blowout preventer to be located on the rig at the surface.
Stolz said state and federal agencies failed to do detailed reviews, so a Duquesne team has been monitoring water quality and surveying households in the Woodlands, in what is one of the most in-depth surveys of alleged impacts of gas drilling in the nation.
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