Then the spill in the Gulf of Mexico fouled the waters: one of the bill's key elements is an expansion of domestic offshore oil exploration.
MEPs have called on the Commission to examine whether the scope of the Seveso Directive should be extended to include offshore oil exploration, pipelines and certain nanomaterials.
"The administration put together a group of experts to review safety recommendations for offshore oil and gas exploration, " Barrasso said.
Based in Houston, Forum Energy makes products and parts used in land-based and offshore oil-and-gas exploration and development.
PLC's failure to plug the mile-deep well that has been leaking oil since April is sending shudders down the spines of industry leaders who previously considered offshore exploration to be one of the last lucrative frontiers in the domestic oil business.
Six Greenpeace activists have boarded a Russian offshore oil rig in protest over gas and oil exploration in the Arctic, the group says.
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And all Arctic countries are opening their offshore areas to exploration with caution: for oil companies, the Arctic is one of the world's most tightly regulated regions.
After going public in 2005, the company today contracts offshore rigs and inland barges for oil and natural gas exploration focused in the Gulf of Mexico.
Oilfield services companies provide the tools and equipment required in the exploration of oil including drilling rigs, offshore rigs and transport equipment.
Oil and gas companies think it will facilitate offshore exploration and drilling.
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Among the sticking points: a proposal to lift a 1981 ban on offshore oil drilling and open the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve in Alaska for exploration.
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The offshore drilling debate boils down to an argument over leasing government waters for oil and natural gas exploration and production.
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