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Anadarko Announces Pre-Salt Discovery Offshore Brazil
HOUSTON -- Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (NYSE:APC) today announced a pre-salt discovery at the Wahoo prospect offshore Brazil in the Campos Basin. The 1-APL-1-ESS well is located on block BM-C-30 in approximately 4,650 feet of water approximately 25 miles southeast and syncline separated from Petrobras' previously announced pre-salt discoveries at the...
Tags: Anadarko Petroleum Corp., Brazil, offshore, Outsourcing
Research articles 2008-09-30
Brazil starts to tap deepwater oil field
RIO DE JANEIRO AFP — Brazil will on Tuesday start to tap a deepwater offshore oil field that could presage how difficult it will be to pump reserves in vast new fields located even farther out to sea. The pipes in the Jubarte field, 77 kilometers (48 miles) off...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Brazil, kilometer, offshore, Outsourcing, reserve, Salt
Research articles 2008-09-01
Letters to the editor
Time to vote right During his 12 years in Congress, Jerry Moran has had plenty of opportunities to move America toward energy independence. He didn't. His big contribution to solving our energy problems was to fly back to Washington recently at taxpayers' expense so he could join Republican...
Tags: Democrat, offshore, Outsourcing, Republican, U.S. Congress
Research articles 2008-08-26
Partisan static hits the radio waves
CRAWFORD, Texas -- President Bush on Saturday blamed the Democratic-led Congress for the high cost of gasoline and renewed his call for expanded offshore drilling to increase U.S. oil supplies. "To reduce pressure on prices, we need to increase the supply of oil, especially oil produced here at...
Tags: Bush, offshore, Outsourcing, president, radio, U.S. Congress
Research articles 2008-08-24
McCain touts oil drilling on Gulf of Mexico rig
WASHINGTON AFP — John McCain Tuesday flew to a Gulf of Mexico oil rig to demand expanded offshore drilling, but Democrats hit back by branding the White House hopeful as a puppet of profit-soaked US energy giants. The Republican candidate toured the platform as polls show a majority of...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Democrat, offshore, Outsourcing
Research articles 2008-08-19
Chevron to develop Newfoundland's Hebron oil field
OTTAWA AFP — Canada's Newfoundland province will sign a final deal Wednesday with a consortium led by US giant Chevron to develop its fourth offshore oil field, worth billions of dollars, the government said Tuesday. Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams and his energy minister will be on hand with oil...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Chevron Corp., Government, offshore, Outsourcing
Research articles 2008-08-19
Republicans May Have a Crude October Surprise
Republicans may be planning a crude surprise for Democrats this October. I mean crude in the sense that it will involve unrefined petroleum. Since the House recessed earlier this month, Republicans have been demanding that Speaker Nancy Pelosi call it back into special session to vote on whether to allow...
Tags: barrel, Bush, Democrat, lease, offshore, Outsourcing, president, Republican, U.S. Congress
Research articles 2008-08-18
Editorial: Offshore Drilling
Finger-pointing and political stunts from Congress won't lower gasoline prices. But that's exactly what lawmakers gave the public before adjourning for their August recess. A group of House Republicans are still protesting on the floor over Democrats' refusal to lift the ban on offshore oil drilling. The United States does...
Tags: offshore, Outsourcing, U.S. Congress
Research articles 2008-08-06
Boxer still opposes lifting offshore oil drilling moratorium
EMERYVILLE -- U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama don't quite see eye-to-eye on offshore oil drilling, she said Tuesday. Boxer, D-Calif., said she understands that, as a presidential candidate, Obama would want "to have a far-reaching energy policy" and that "he'd be willing...
Tags: biofuel, Boxer, offshore, Outsourcing, U.S. Senate
Research articles 2008-08-05
Energy no-action has Okla.'s U.S. lawmakers clamoring
U.S. Rep. Frank Lucas is one of Oklahoma's Republican representatives in Congress who ascribes to the Republican Party's call for increased domestic production of oil and natural gas, including offshore drilling. But he also represents agriculturally dominated areas of the state that benefit from an increased national focus on biofuels...
Tags: offshore, Oklahoma, Outsourcing, Republican, U.S., U.S. Congress
Research articles 2008-08-04
Offshore oil drilling is splitting U.S. Senate candidates in N.J.
The same energy issue splitting Democrats and Republicans in Washington - whether to lift the offshore oil-drilling ban - is dividing candidates in New Jersey's hottest federal races. U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D., N.J.) opposes President Bush's proposal to lift the ban, saying the debate "is not about producing more...
Tags: FINANCE, offshore, Outsourcing, Republican, Taxes, U.S., U.S. Senate
Research articles 2008-08-04
Bush blasts Demos for barring a vote on drilling
WASHINGTON -- President Bush chastised Democrats on Saturday for refusing to allow a vote on whether to lift the federal ban on offshore oil drilling before lawmakers departed for their summer recess. "To reduce pressure on prices, we need to increase the supply of oil, especially oil produced...
Tags: Bush, offshore, Outsourcing, Republican, U.S. Congress
Research articles 2008-08-03
With oil prices hitting voters, Obama budges on offshore drilling
WASHINGTON AFP — With soaring fuel prices digging holes in the wallets of American voters, White House hopeful Barack Obama said Saturday that he might be willing to support offshore oil drilling in the country. In a shift that quickly brought accusations of inconsistency from Republicans, Obama said he...
Tags: accusation, America, Obama, offshore, Outsourcing, Republican, senator, White House
Research articles 2008-08-02
With oil prices hitting voters, Obama budges on offshore drilling
WASHINGTON AFP — With soaring fuel prices digging holes in the wallets of American voters, White House hopeful Barack Obama said Saturday that he might be willing to support offshore oil drilling in the country. In a shift that quickly brought accusations of inconsistency from Republicans, Obama said he...
Tags: accusation, America, Obama, offshore, Outsourcing, Republican, senator, White House
Research articles 2008-08-02
Obama displays new flexibility on offshore drilling
WASHINGTON AFP — Faced with a national outcry over skyrocketing gas prices, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said, in an interview published Saturday, that he might be willing to open the state of Florida to offshore drilling. "If, in order to get that passed, we have to compromise in...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, FINANCE, Florida, MARKETING, Obama, offshore, Outsourcing, senator, Taxes
Research articles 2008-08-01
Citing public support, Bush urges appoval of offshore drilling
WASHINGTON AFP — US President George W. Bush on Wednesday drew on surging fuel prices and growing public support for offshore drilling to reiterate his call for Congress to allow the practice in order to curb an energy crisis. "There is now a growing agreement across our country that...
Tags: Bush, offshore, Outsourcing, U.S. Congress
Research articles 2008-07-30
Energy incoherence
JOHN MCCAIN is finally starting to exploit Barack Obama's weakness on the energy issue. With gasoline topping $4 per gallon, McCain reversed his stance on offshore drilling and called for Congress to lift a 27-year-old moratorium on coastal energy exploration. With this shift, McCain has put himself on the same...
Tags: FINANCE, gasoline, offshore, Outsourcing, Taxes, U.S. Congress
Research articles 2008-07-14
Desalination on Demand
WATER TECHNOLOGY A TEXAS-HEADQUARTERED company plans to build and operate ships that desalinate seawater and pump it to cities experiencing water shortages. The firm, Water Standard Co., says its vessels would be able to pump up to 75 million gallons a day and operate from as far as...
Tags: IEEE, offshore, Outsourcing, vessel
Research articles 2008-07-01
Update - Symbio Named Top 10 China Offshore Development Software Vendor for Europe and North America by Major Analyst Firm
The Symbio Group ( www.symbio-group.com ) today announced that it was named a top 10 China Offshore Development Software Vendor for Europe and North America by IDC. The ranking, based on 2007 revenues, appears in IDC's China Offshore Software Development 2008-2012 Forecast and Analysis (IDC #CN221101Q) published in May. ...
Tags: China, International Data Corp., offshore, Outsourcing, software
Research articles 2008-06-24
Bush blames Demos for gas prices
WASHINGTON -- President Bush is accusing Democrats in Congress of blocking his energy proposals, saying they are partly to blame for high gasoline costs pinching Americans' budgets. In his Saturday radio address, Bush urged Congress to lift its long-standing ban on offshore oil and gas drilling to increase...
Tags: Bush, Democrat, FINANCE, offshore, Outsourcing, president, U.S. Congress
Research articles 2008-06-22
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