In his first week as president, Obama rescinded a Bush executive order that permitted drilling on the continental shelf.
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An agency called the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf decides on the merits of the case, but it has no powers of enforcement.
Business advisory firm Deloitte said the amount of drilling, as well as the number of oil and gas field deals on the UK Continental Shelf, levelled out in the first quarter of this year.
We have looked at -- based on the fact that the ban on drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf had expired, we looked at additional areas that could be open possibly to further drilling.
More domestic supply, which means quick assurance that Congress will open gas-rich acreage on the Outer Continental Shelf.
The discovery may represent one of the ten largest oil finds ever on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS).
They can often be found on the slopes of the continental shelf, though as yet they are impossibly awkward to extract.
Ithaca recently purchased a 14% stake in MacCulloch, which lies 250km (155 miles) north east of Aberdeen on the UK Continental Shelf.
They've removed their cases to federal court, citing the OPA as well as a federal law that governs oil spills on the outer continental shelf .
Under procedures laid out in Annex II of the treaty, the petitioning party submits geologic data and makes its case for expansion before a LOST body called the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, which then makes its determination as to the claim.
"The agency has taken unprecedented steps and will continue to make the changes necessary to restore the American people's confidence in the safety and environmental soundness of oil and gas drilling and production on the Outer Continental Shelf, while balancing our nation's important energy needs, " spokeswoman Kendra Barkoff said.
The Department of Interior which controls permits for drilling on federal onshore lands and the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) is also exerting a big influence upon fracking operations.
And as if on cue, the industry was, on Tuesday, proudly showing off a BYT, weighing 40 tonnes, and designed to staunch major spills on the seabed of the UK Continental Shelf.
In mid-July, the department's Mineral Management Services, which controls the mineral rights on federal lands, asserted its jurisdiction over renewable energy projects--wind, wave, solar and tidal energy--on federal waters in the Outer Continental Shelf.
Mr. Obama's has blocked exploration and production on significant areas of the Outer Continental Shelf, and the few leases he has put up for auction contain land that is of little value to drillers.
These scapegoats rightly pointed out that oil and gas supplies would be meaningfully boosted if restrictions on drilling and exploration in the Outer Continental Shelf and in Alaska were lifted.
Congress quietly lifted the ban on offshore oil drilling yesterday, opening the vast waters of the outer continental shelf to oil and gas companies eager to exploit the area's substantial energy resources.
Russian scientists are keen on proving that the seabed below the North Pole is part of the Eurasian continental shelf, an area called the Lomonosov Ridge.
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