Soros, on the other hand, manages a huge offshore hedge fund for wealthy individuals and institutions.
The seaport also provides supplies and services to more than half of all offshore drilling operations.
Loons, bald eagles and seals are common sights, and you may even spot a whale offshore.
Hundreds of wells have been drilled at this depth and deeper, especially offshore Brazil, with no spills.
The coastline here is best known for its gorges and eroded limestone rock formations that protrude offshore.
Flamingos and pelicans feed in the deeper water, and African penguins and gannets breed on the offshore islands.
Apart from the hurricane worries, the reason is that offshore reserve life is typically shorter.
To avoid this, many U.S. companies have kept the profits of foreign subsidiaries offshore.
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Cook, however, denied that Apple funnels any of its U.S. profits into offshore tax havens.
Taxing offshore hydrocarbons in most years determines whether Scotland's government is in profit or loss.
Horton is considering new methods for building offshore platforms that will hold wind turbines.
The city lost 10% of its population in the 1980s, as manufacturing jobs drifted offshore.
Many are no more than treasury departments for large companies, for channelling money offshore.
But the Danes who built a big offshore wind farm in 2002 have a head start.
The Leviathan field was one of the world's largest offshore natural gas finds this past decade.
He took over the island nation of Antigua with his offshore banking empire, Stanford Financial.
Impenetrable as offshore trusts may be, their owners still are subject to U.S. law.
But that was a dramatic event, the biggest offshore oil spill in U.S. history.
But oil rigs aren't the only thing you can expect to see being built offshore.
Getting a court order forcing Jones to cough up his offshore assets was the next step.
Moray Offshore Renewables Ltd submitted plans for the project to government agency Marine Scotland last summer.
Energy firms have found clever ways to overcome permitting problems, beyond putting terminals offshore.
While the Great Barrier lies far offshore, accessible only by boat, the Ningaloo is yards away.
Arniston got its name from a British ship that was wrecked offshore in 1815.
Mindful of some of the uncertainties, many Taiwan companies have moved their legal domiciles offshore.
This and much else bankrolled political interests and businesses, or was moved into offshore accounts.
ON, the Rampion offshore wind farm could create enough electricity to power up to 450, 000 homes.
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Plans for a three-year wind power project on Jersey's offshore reefs have been approved.
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