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Appeals court upholds denial of compensation for lease off Florida
… that denied the company compensation for a long-held offshore lease on which the state prohibited the company from drilling for oil and gas. The First District Court of Appeal affirmed the trial court's denial of affiliate Coastal Petroleum Co …
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Gore to ban drilling off key states if elected US president
US Vice-Pres. Al Gore has pledged that, if elected president, he will ban any new offshore drilling for oil and gas along the California and Florida coasts. He made the announcement during a campaign stop at the Seacoast Science Center …
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Rig Health-Risk Audits Will Benefit Operators, Contractors
… humidity, and airborne contamination. (Fig. 1). Click here to enlarge image Like other heavy industries, drilling for oil and gas can pose a significant risk to health. However, unlike most heavy industries which are static in terms of …
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Offshore drilling
Drilling pledge Vice President Al Gore has pledged that, if elected President, he would ban any new offshore drilling for oil and gas along the California and Florida coasts. The Clinton administration had prohibited new leasing, but not …
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MMS: Record number of rigs now drilling in Gulf of Mexico's ultradeep water
By OGJ editors HOUSTON, Mar. 5 -- A record number of drilling rigs currently a total of 12 are drilling for oil and gas in the ultradeep waters (5,000 ft or deeper) of the Gulf of Mexico, according to the US Minerals Management Service …
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Frontier basins seeing new exploration in New Mexico
Ronald F. Broadhead New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources Socorro, N.M. Drilling for oil and natural gas in New Mexico remained steady in 1995, and exploration picked up in frontier areas of the state after several …
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HORIZONTAL NIOBRARA PLAY PROCEEDING WITH CAUTION
… Petzet Exploration Editor Caution and careful planning are the watchwords for operators in their approach to horizontal drilling for oil in Upper Cretaceous Niobrara chalk in Colorado and Wyoming. Despite its geologic age equivalence with the Austin …
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US drilling rig count down 7 units to 1,762
… Gulf of Mexico, down 1 unit from a week ago. Rigs drilling for oil fell by 6 units to 1,402, while those targeting ..... rigs this week to 131. This count includes 75 rigs drilling for oil (up 5 units from a week ago) and 56 units drilling …
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US drilling rig count unchanged at 1,769
… Gulf of Mexico, up 2 units from a week ago. Rigs drilling for oil fell by 4 units to 1,408, while those targeting ..... rigs this week to 123. This count includes 70 rigs drilling for oil (down 6 units from a week ago) and 53 units drilling …
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US drilling rig count up 5 units to 1,769
… units working. Canada’s rig count was off slightly this week, down 3 units to 118. This count includes 65 rigs drilling for oil (down 1 unit from a week ago) and 53 units drilling for gas (down 2 units from last week). The total was down …
