Environmental groups have criticised the UK government for allowing exploration in the area.
"But we think that there's a lot of fertile ground for innovation and exploration in that area, so that's what we're doing, " he added.
The participants were unanimous in expressing their deep concern to the Congolese Government regarding the granting of a concession for oil exploration in an area of Virunga National Park.
It's very exciting because I think this is going to open up a whole new area for exploration.
Recent exploration in a new area revealed estimated oil and gas reserves of 3 billion to 15 billion barrels.
An oil law has still not been passed that would allow for much-needed investment and should enable the Kurds to have a measure of control over management and exploration contracts in their area.
But it's an area ripe for exploration, ripe for us all getting exciting about.
Still, researchers believe this area of medicine deserves exploration because treatment of distressed moods can make a difference.
His Vanco Energy, in Houston, Texas, has 11 million hectares of exploration and drilling rights in the area--more deepwater rights than Shell, ExxonMobil and BP combined.
Last month the Constitutional Tribunal, Peru's highest court, ruled that exploration should halt in the protected area while the government comes up with a development plan.
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While technologies such as Solidcore (just acquired by McAfee) can be installed to make a Windows machine impervious to attack via essentially randomizing memory and system call registries and other randomizing in the network can add to the investment at attacker must make to be successful, there is one area that is ripe for exploration.
The oil spill has also rejuvenated a campaign by environmental groups and native coastal villagers to reduce the area of the Arctic open to oil exploration and overhaul drilling regulations.
The Ekati Diamond Mine, located in the Northwest Territories of Canada, consists of the Core Zone, which includes the current operating mine and other permitted kimberlite pipes, as well as the Buffer Zone, an adjacent area hosting kimberlite pipes having both development and exploration potential.
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The exploration permit allowed Pacific Rim to perform exploratory drilling in the area, which is what caught the attention of local communities.
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Cuadrilla insists the process is safe, but says it has no intention "at the moment" of drilling in the area south of the village, where it has permission to drill a borehole for oil and gas exploration.
"Rathlin is a Special Area of Conservation, (SAC) and a Special Protection Area (SPA) and the RSPB would like the UK government not to license oil and gas exploration in these areas, as they are too important for wildlife, " he said.
In December, Cuadrilla said it had no intention "at the moment" of drilling to the area south of the village, where it now has permission to drill a borehole for oil and gas exploration.
Pacific Rim acquired a firm that already had an exploration permit, a sort of phase-one permit in the mining world that allows companies to explore an area and determine whether mining would make sense there.
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The most recent leg of the mission, carried out via an exploration vessel called the Nautilus, surveyed the massive Eratosthenes Seamount (an underwater mountain), which covers an area more than 120km long by 80km wide and stands 2, 000m high.
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