It was a Republican speak-in, and their message was clear: Start the drill - offshore in Alaska, tap oil shale in Western states.
The Shell fleet's 14, 000-ton drill ship in Alaska, the Discoverer, slipped anchor two weeks ago.
It also has oil companies that may be ready to drill in ultra-deep water.
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The organisation predicted the creation of 1, 300 jobs per year over a ten-year drill programme in the county and a total of 4, 200 nationwide.
Its primary business is the ownership and operation of jack-up rigs, tender rigs, semi-submersible rigs and drill ships for operations in shallow, mid- and deepwater areas.
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Advanced technologies have made it possible to not just extract more oil from conventional sources previously thought tapped, but frack and deep-water drill in spots not even thought of 20 years ago.
Focusing on high-margin drilling technology and tools, Duroc-Danner spun off the drill-pipe business as Grant Prideco in 2000 and sold off capital-intensive barge rig and gas-compression businesses.
In mid-July Shell began the first of seven wildcat wells it will drill this year in the Kingdom's Rub al-Khali, a desert known as the Empty Quarter (a name Van der Veer hopes is merely metaphorical).
Three competitors in America accused the company in August 2011 of evading duties by trans-shipping drill pipe through its plant in the UAE.
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They have limited ability to drill in many oil-prone regions, such as Russia and part of the Middle East, due to politics.
Beyond its production update, Chevron made headlines on Wednesday as it once again won permission from Brazilian regulators to drill in their pre-salt fields off the coast of Rio.
But it was Poland who broke away again for Jacek Krzynowek to drill in a left-wing cross that a stretching Lukasz Gargula just failed to connect with at the far post.
Capiapo, Chile (CNN) -- A new drill in Chile that could speed the rescue of trapped miners arrived at the rescue scene on Friday with great jubilation from families of the workers.
The judge simply ruled that with no company seeking currently to actively drill in deepwater, that basically there -- without -- we did not -- in a sense, we lacked standing for a ruling because the type of activity that we were looking to ban was not happening.
Chevron has previously received a lease to drill for natural gas in the so-called "Destin Dome" area, near Pensacola.
What they've done before the commercial versions is using, like, five-gallon buckets of this drill hole in the bottom, so they can plant through, put some dirt in and hang it up.
Louis, I also joined Secretary Arne Duncan and Missouri Governor Jay Nixon at Carnahan High School of the Future to participate in the Great Central U.S. ShakeOut--the largest-ever, multi-state earthquake drill to be held in the United States, and the first major drill to take place along the New Madrid Seismic Zone, which was the site of one of the worst earthquakes in U.S. history nearly 200 years ago.
Early in the workout, Devils leading goal-scorer David Clarkson hit Brodeur in the mask practicing a one-on-one drill, and the two exchanged comments with Clarkson laughing while skating away.
The three-cone drill is used to measure short-area quickness, which is a key attribute in Houston's zone-blocking offense.
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Drills will take place throughout the day and children will be encouraged - or press-ganged - to drill and march, dressing up in uniforms supplied by Brixham Museum.
In the past six years, four of the top 12 performers in the three-cone drill were drafted by the Texans or signed by the team as an undrafted free agent.
There has been much heated debate this week about how much more oil there is to come - probably a lot, but not necessarily offering up quite such generous tax revenue once the industry has been incentivised to drill and develop in deep water and hard-to-reach reserves.
According to this 2002 article in Offshore, the Deepwater Horizon was set to be outfitted with a system called E-drill, which continuously beams data from rig operations to a monitoring center in Houston.
Two rigs in the Ardwick area would drill down 3km (2 miles) to a thermal spring in the multi-million pound plan.
Focusing on high-margin drilling technology and tools, Duroc-Danner spun off the drill-pipe business as Grant Prideco (nyse: GRP - news - people ) in 2000 and sold off capital-intensive barge rig and gas-compression businesses.
Chesapeake Energy, one of the biggest shale-gas firms, recently abandoned plans to drill in New York state after such worries were raised there.
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