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AP - The view of Delicate Arch natural bridge an unspoiled landmark so iconic it’s on Utah’s license plates could one day include a drilling platform under a proposal that environmentalists call a Bush administration “fire sale” for the oil and gas industry.
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In a 13G filed with the SEC recently, Mexican businessman Carlos Slim has disclosed a 7.64% ownership stake in Bronco Drilling (BRNC). He now owns 2,200,000 shares of the company.Carlos Slim is a well-known Mexican businessman who amassed his wealth through telecom. He is known for his association with America Movil (AMX), Telcel, and Telefonos de Mexico (TMX) and was the second richest man in t
Petroleum geologists, polled on the cause of the mudslides from Indonesia's Lusi volcano, say they were caused by oil and gas company Lapindo Brantas, which drilled the Banjar-Panji-1 exploration well.The cause of the Lusi mudslides, which started to erupt in East Java on May 29, 2006, was considered in a debate at the American Association of Petroleum Geologists Conference in Cape Town, South Afr
Technology improved a lot. Many drills emerging with lots of desirable features. One among them with most useful and featured drill is Router Bits of ONSRUD. ONSRUD drill bits are the best cutter according to my suggestion. It is provided with Solid carbide, High Speed steel and diamond related cutting tools. ONSRUD is the best company with lots of drilling variety equipments introduced by them in
Woe to those who are controlled by short-term thinking.In this case, the woe goes to Americans.Oil drove off a cliff. It's trading at under $70 a barrel.When it zoomed past a Benjamin we, and it sure seemed like the collective we, all joined in a chorus of "drill baby drill."That was silly then.It's worse now.There is real cost to such drilling. Very real costs in terms of challenges to our oceans
You have put in a lot of effort to get your first oil drilling job. Once you get hired, here are 10 tips to get you started off on the right foot. 1) Be humble. Start from the bottom, just like everyone else on the oil rig, even the rig manager. 2) Be prepared. There are no stores on an offshore oil rig. Make sure you bring along enough toiletries and cigarettes (even if you do not smoke). You can
1. 6 - 9 Axis CNC Robot Routers2. Robot CNC Loaders3. Custom Robot Systems4. Offline Robot ProgrammingURC Automation builds 6 - 9 axis CNC robot router machining systems for plastic and composite material removal. We have a mobile platform system, several fixed station router machining systems and a 7-9 Axis router machining system for large parts or multiple stations for the secondary operations
Kirkland Lake Gold Inc. (Company) is pleased to announce an update on exploration drilling testing in the South Mine Complex (SMC). The SMC consists of 15 or more mineralized zones. Exploration drilling continues to extend previously defined mineralization and intersect new zones. Recent drilling has expanded the YYZ zone and intersected a new mineralized zone [...]
Millions of dollars worth of unnecessary dental treatments are being performed each year.One dentist told a patient she had a fractured jaw, although it was not fractured at all. The dentist performed surgery anyway, and inserted hundreds of tiny beads instead of a bone graft. The beads became infected and required multiple surgeries for removal. The same dentists has reportedly performed unnecess
Close date : 12 October 2008ARABIAN DRILLING CO.SAUDI ARABIAA leading Oil/Gas Drilling Company urgently requires the following personnel for their expanding Land & Offshore OperationsRig Manager, Barge Captain, Mate, QHSE Manager, Rig Superintendent, Assistant Rig Superintendent, Driller, Asst. Driller, Chief Mechanic, Chief Electrician, Electronic Technician, Cyber Driller, Safety Officer, St
Environment News Service, September 30, 2008 WASHINGTON, DC, September 30, 2008 (ENS) - President George W. Bush today signed a consolidated appropriations bill that funds government operations through March 2009, including disaster relief. The measure also lifts a long-standing legislative ban on offshore oil and gas leasing cherished by conservationists. Earlier this year, President Bush li
There are a group of House Republicans who have, in recent months, created a bit of a “thorn” in Nancy Pelosi’s side. The first “revolt” came with the energy crisis; Nancy Pelosi decided that there would be no vote on offshore oil drilling, going to extraordinary lengths to stop the debate – the House Republicans, including John Culberson and John Boehner, stayed to debate, long after
Stratabound Minerals Corp. (TSX.V:SB) is pleased to release results of the latest six holes drilled on its 100%-owned Captain copper-cobalt property near Bathurst, New Brunswick. A series of 25 holes totaling 5,098 metres was completed with the intention of delineating a potential copper-cobalt resource at open-pit depth. The program has been [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House passed a $630 billion-plus spending bill Wednesday that wraps together a record Pentagon budget with aid for automakers and natural disaster victims, and increased health care for veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.The year-end budget measure also would lift a quarter-century ban on oil drilling off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. The legislation, which sena
The Issue: Congressional Democrats have conceded to allowing the 25-year moratorium on offshore drilling expire, allowing the oil that lies beneath the Pacific Coast to be subject to development. With the recent rise in the cost of oil, consumers have seen an increase in the price of gas up to $4 a gallon. Is domestic [...]
Is it really worth it now... The US House of Representatives has just passed legislation that lifts the ban on offshore oil drilling. This opens up most of the US coastline to exploration. Individual states now have the option to allow drilling between 50 and 100 miles off their shores. The problem is offshore drilling is unlikely to solve America’s energy crisis. According to the gove
The Democrats in the House passed a very poor bill aimed at opening up offshore drilling in an effort to get themselves reelected, umm, lower energy prices for America. The bill only allows for offshore drilling 50 miles out when most of the oil is much closer to the coastline. Way to go, Dems! We [...]
Well, they did it just like I said they would. The House passed the drilling bill late last night by a 236-189 vote. Republicans are happy, since they bullied Dems into
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I remember, when I was a kid, looking at the TV and seeing Richard Nixon trying to wrangle his way out of the Watergate mess. For a while I thought that was it... that was the moment we collectively lost confidence in the government always doing the right thing.It took me a few years and a lot of history books to understand that the Nixon moment, while poignant for many generations, was (unfortuna
One sure-fire way to set Leftist/Liberal Environmentalists off into a tizzy is to suggest that we open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil drilling.The environment is too fragile....whatever gains we may see will be minuscule.So goes the argument.In an ad from defenders.org , drilling in ANWR will give us a "toxic wasteland where there was once a publicly owned wildlife refuge".M
Warwick Uni BJJ Training Group, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK - 10/08/2008I haven't been able to make all of the University of Warwick BJJ training sessions, so this was the third meeting of the Warwick Uni BJJ group for me. As I've said before, it isn't a formal class, as none of us are experienced enough to teach: its just a bunch of people getting together for drilling. I wouldn't normall
Pioneer Drilling Company, Inc. (Amex: PDC - News) announced that its Chief Financial Officer, Joyce M. Schuldt, has resigned from the Company, effective August 28. Schuldt joined Pioneer Drilling in July 2007.
In addition, Pioneer Director C. Robert Bunch has resigned from the Company’s Board of Directors, effective immediately. Bunch joined the Board in May 2004 [...]
Pioneer Drilling Co. Inc. said Friday that Chief Financial Officer Joyce M. Schuldt has resigned from the company, effective Aug. 28.
Schuldt first joined San Antonio-based Pioneer (AMEX: PDC) in July 2007.
In addition, C. Robert Bunch has also resigned from the company’s board of directors, effective immediately. Bunch first joined the board in May 2004. However, [...]
Right now, both candidates, Barack Obama and John McCain, are in favor of some kind of offshore drilling(Obama will consider it with a energy plan). McCain is all in favor of drilling offshore to the fullest extent once he is in office. What neither candidate has said is: Gas prices will not go down no matter what we do in the short run. Otherwise saying, suffering is good because it will spur
When last we saw Mark Udall, the Democratic Representative and Senate hopeful had skulked off a plane from DC after reneging on his promise to keep the House in session until Nancy Pelosi allowed a vote on drilling. When Pelosi called for the adjournment vote, Udall suddenly took a powder — and Pelosi won the [...]
According to this article it appears as though Nancy Pelosi is ready to offer a bill that will expand offshore oil drilling when the house returns from recess. All the politicians seem to be scrambling to support filing legislation after years of opposing it. John McCain was the first to flip-flop on this issue, followed by [...]
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This has been a long-time coming. What is shocking is the firm, stubborn positions some prominent Democrats have taken, only to completely flip-flop. In this case, Pelosi, Obama, et al have said in no uncertain terms that oil drilling is a Republican ruse, and that it was not an option, only to contradict themselves. This is reminiscent of Harry Reid and his chums declaring that the Iraq war wa
When Speaker of The House Nancy Pelosi adjourned the House for the summer, GOP house members continued to plug away on the issue of energy even as she literally turned the lights out on on them. Pelosi's refusel to call a vote on the issue of off shore oil drilling before recess left House Republicans debating the issue during unofficial sessions of their own making. "Get off your boat tour," Re
Personally, I thought the fact that 80% of oil leases currently owned by major American oil firms have yet to be drilled was a good enough argument to completely kill any talk of further offshore drilling. Clearly, profit is the only thing Republicans, as servants of the oil industries and their powerful Washington lobbyists, care about (emphasis mine);For oil companies, vast holdings of federal
Warwick Uni BJJ Training Group, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK - 10/08/2008I've haven't been able to make all of them, so this was the third meeting of the Warwick Uni BJJ group for me. As I've said before, it isn't a formal class, as none of us are experienced enough to teach: its just a bunch of people getting together for drilling. I wouldn't normally stick it in its own entry, but scribbl
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On June 16th of this year, John McCain made a speech where he outlined a whole new energy strategy that included a complete reversal from his previous stance on offshore oil drilling. For over a decade, McCain had opposed offshore oil drilling, but new polls showing a vast majority of American supporting increased domestic drilling changed his mind.
After making his energy shift, McCain began
~Snooper~Well, apparently, the squeeze is on and, naturally, the weak-kneed democrats are beginning to fold. Someone must have informed her Naziness that the AMERICAN PEOPLE - the vast majority of them - think she is an idiot. I agree.California Democrat Nancy Pelosi may be trying to save the planet - but the rank and file in her party increasingly are just trying to save their political hides w
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That’s right folks….if the Democrat led Congress doesn’t renew the ban. Think about it…we have $4 per gallon gasoline, billions of dollars per year going to Saudi Arabia and the Middle East, a Democrat presidential candidate telling you to save gas by filling up your tires, and a Democrat Congress that will actually renew a [...]
In a continuance of the Republican protest of last Friday when the house adjourned without voting on the energy crisis, Republicans today returned to the house to debate the energy bill. Even though Democrats are gone and the house is adjourned Republicans today showed up to do the work of the American people.
This is a [...]
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John McCain recently flip flopped on the issue of domestic offshore oil drilling and seems to have gained a little bit of traction from people who actually believe that he is telling the truth. He isn’t, he is a fraud and he is just trying to find an issue where he and President Obama [...]
President Bush made another of his famous goofs yesterday when questioned on his views regarding off shore drilling. Mr Bush said that he was happy with his current dental plan and had no need to seek treatment outside of the country.
The news is abuzz with a great debate between Obama and McCain on the issue of drilling for oil off America's shores. This is a measure that seeks to solve a complex problem with a simple solution. Rising energy costs require a more holistic answer and not one rooted in political motives.1. Offshore drilling merely prolongs the inevitable. At some point we will run out of BLACK GOO spurting from t
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ST. PETERSBURG — U.S. Sen. Barack Obama said today he would be willing to open Florida's coast for more oil drilling if it meant winning approval for broad energy changes. "My interest is in making sure we've got the kind of comprehensive energy policy that can bring down gas prices," Obama said in an interview with T
The last day that the house was in session proved to be an interesting one indeed. Democrats refused to bring to a vote an issue that will eventually help Americans with one of their number one concerns, fuel prices.
Democrats stalled a vote on offshore oil drilling and called for an end to the legislative session, [...]
New MoveOn.Org Video AdAnd Parodymoveon.org, attack, ad, drilling, america, oil, parodyConservative PunkThe MoveOn.Org Attack DogThe latest passive toned ad from Moveon.org, this time tackling the energy crisis and offshore drilling:The Wilkow Majority decided it's parody time. This was a record turnaround too. Enjoy!The parody of the attack ad is here: Parody of MoveOn.org attack adby RizzutoSour
Campaign contributions from oil industry executives to John McCain rose dramatically in the last half of June, after the criminal from Arizona made a high-profile split with environmentalists and reversed his opposition to the federal ban on offshore drilling. The amount given? $1.1 million. $892,000 more than the month before.read more | digg story
Campaign contributions from oil industry executives to Sen. John McCain rose dramatically in the last half of June, after the senator from Arizona made a high-profile split with environmentalists and reversed his opposition to the federal ban on offshore drilling. The amount given? $1.1 million. $892,000 more than the month before.
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Ed Frank has a must read piece in the National Review on the box congressional democrats have put themselves in when it comes to drilling for oil offshore. He points out that the current ban expires September 30th and explains the politics that will probably lead, with a little republican spine, to a lifting of the moratorium.
Yesterday President Bush lifted the executive ban on offshore drilling, a move that will have virtually no impact unless Congress lifts its corresponding moratorium. From the Rose Garden yesterday Bush stated:
For years, my administration has been calling on Congress to expand domestic oil production. Unfortunately, Democrats on Capitol Hill have rejected virtually every proposal — and now A
Shoulda. Woulda. Coulda.How many times do we have to hear this in the world of politics? How many times do we have to hear we should have a better energy policy in effect in the United States? How many times do we have to hear the previous presidents would have done a great service to this nation if they had adopted a better energy policy? How many times do we have to hear about what could have be
Here's something positive the president is doing for a change - lifting the ban on offshore drilling in the US waters.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Putting pressure on congressional Democrats to back more exploration for oil, President Bush on Monday lifted an executive ban on offshore drilling that has stood since his father was president. But the move, by itself, will do nothing unless Congress acts as
The Associated Press is reporting that President Bush will lift the executive ban on offshore drilling Breitbart.com in a move to pressure Congress to do the same. The executive order has been in place since 1990, signed by George H. Bush. Recinding the executive ban will be one step in the right direction. However, Democrats and some Republicans must act to lift the second congressional ban. Pr
President Bush announced that he will rescind his father's Executive Order banning offshore drilling. After all the political to-and-fro specific to offshore drilling, the article closed with this: In his statement last month, Bush also renewed his demand that Congress allow drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, clear the way for more refineries and encourage efforts to recov
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Postal CrazyRed Planet CartoonsThe dysfunctional energy policy of the US Congress is the subject of today lesson by Red Planet Cartoons, and RPC zeros in like a laser beam.Anyone wondering why U.S. energy policy is so dysfunctional need only review Congress’s recent antics. Members have debated ideas ranging from suing OPEC to the Senate’s carbon tax-and-regulation monstrosity, to a windfall p
WASHINGTON - "More oil production suddenly has become the mantra for Republican and Democratic politicians alike as voters seethe over $4-plus gasoline -- and the most powerful people in Washington can't find any way to provide relief.Still, they don't agree on where to drill, and if they did, it still wouldn't provide any help to motorists struggling at the pump and people facing record heating b
Northern Lion Gold Corp. (the “Company”) (TSX VENTURE:NL)(FRANKFURT:N3E) announces the results from its initial two diamond drill holes, PR-27 and PR-28, on the Preguica prospect within the Company’s 100% owned Moura Project, located in southern Portugal.
The Preguica prospect underwent historical drilling and development by the Portuguese government and Compagnie Royalle Austrie
Independent Nickel Corp. (TSX: INI) has received assays which confirm further positive drilling results from the Disco Zone at its Lynn Lake Nickel Project, located in Lynn Lake, Manitoba. Highlights of these most recent intersections are summarized as follows:
- LLN-044 tested the westward extension of the Disco zone, and intersected 9.4 meters of 0.7% [...]
Premier Oil plc has reported that its Chim Ung-1 well in Viet Nam has been drilled to a total depth of 3,735m, penetrating the target Dua reservoirs. After encountering good oil shows wireline logging confirmed 10 meters of (net) oil pay within Upper Dua sandstones and a further 5 meters of (net) oil pay in a shallower reservoir. The reservoir quality is slightly better than expected.
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I am at the Life On Wheels RV Convention at Lewis-Clark College in Lewiston, Idaho this week, but had a few more thoughts and questions on drilling in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).
(1) If we need ANWR’s oil so much, why haven’t the oil companies drilled the 65 million acres they already have leases [...]
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The Pew Research Center has released the results of a new poll which shows that gasoline prices are beginning to undermine Americans' support for energy conservation. Worse, the poll shows that more Americans now believe that oil exploration and new power plant construction is a higher priority than protecting the environment.
Five months ago, only 35% of Americans believed the top energy
I received the email below from the American Family Association (AFA):
The AFA is a non-profit organization that promotes conservative Christian values. I accept these emails, because I find their arguments laughable. The AFA’s assertions are seriously flawed due to their own ignorance and prejudices. As a result, they often loose on many [...]
CENTURY DINAMIK DRILLING, PT Post Date: 26 Jun 08 Century ResourcesEmployment OpportunityDraughtmanCentury Resources is a multi disciplinary oil & gas and geothermal contractor with onshore operations in Indonesia and various other overseas locations including Australia.We are seeking a well organized, energetic and experienced person with sound English communication and liaison skills to fill th
By Judy Dugan
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This week’s big win by Exxon in the U.S. Supreme Court should make Americans think twice about letting Exxon and friends resume drilling for oil off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. If the idea of court-ordered punitive damages is to prevent and punish corporate wrongdoing, ExxonMobil just got [...]
Fuel prices are sky-rocketing, anywhere in the world. This spells one thing...prices of commodities going up and cost of living becoming more and more expensive.I do hope that those scientists looking into using hydrogen or biofuel as alternative sources of energy would succeed in their endeavors, and more importantly, that their efforts would be embraced by economy leaders and the general public
First Metals Inc. is pleased to provide shareholders with the following exploration update.
For the past 2 years, the main focus of the Company was on developing the Fabie copper, gold and silver deposit for production and significantly advancing the Magusi polymetallic massive sulphide deposit towards underground mineral production. Fabie is now successfully producing and Magusi [...]
Geovic Mining Corp., on behalf of its 60%-owned subsidiary Geovic Cameroon PLC (GeoCam), is pleased to announce the progress of its drilling program at the Mada cobalt-nickel-manganese property in Cameroon, Africa. Mada is a northern, adjoining extension of the Nkamouna deposit, with very similar geologic properties and mineral grades. The purpose of drilling out Mada [...]
Zogby Poll: 74% Support Off-Shore Oil Drilling59% of likely voters favor drilling in ANWRTelephone survey finds 59% of likely voters favor drilling in ANWR; 25% of undecideds would be more likely to support McCain because he favors off-shore drillingUTICA, New York – Three in four likely voters – 74% – support off-shore drilling for oil in U.S. coastal waters and more than half (59%) also fa
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by Dave MindemanSen. Amy Klobuchar called a news conference today and encouraged the DOJ to reign in the excessive speculation in the oil commodity market.Finally...somebody is getting it right.Michele Bachmann are you taking notes?The continuous rise in the market price per barrel is not being driven by supply and demand at this time... although it is a normal factor in normal times. But right n
For well over a year now, conservatives have warned voters that Barack Obama is more about style than substance at a time when global challenges require hard core leadership and experience in the Oval Office.
In other words, although being "clean and articulate" is cool, our next president and commander-in-chief must bring substantive credentials to
Should we be focusing on making oil cheap or should we focus on making it obsolete? Of course in an ideal world, gas would be cheap and increasingly obsolete. We don’t live in an ideal world. By focusing on unrealistic “quick fix” solutions, are we just scraping ourselves up a little more time to keep avoiding the real issue?read more | digg story
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Statoil Indonesia Karama AS is part of the Norwegian Statoil-Hydro corporation, one of the world’s largest offshore operator. As operator for Production Sharing Contract with BP MIGAS for the Karama block on behalf of itself and of its co-ventures, Statoil Indonesia Karama AS plans to start exploration drilling of 3 wells in the ultra deep waters of West Sulawesi in
An Obama fan writes in to defend the candidate in the matter of four recent claims disputed by Hugh Hewitt. * That off-shore oil production would only drop gas prices by a few cents in five years * That an investment of 250 billion dollars five years ago would have produced an engine that didn't require fossil fuels.
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John McCain, June 18: "I think that (offshore drilling) would be very helpful in the short term resolving our energy crisis."John McCain, May 29: "With those resources, which would take years to develop, you would only postpone or temporarily relieve our dependency on fossil fuels." As the St. Petersburg Times clarifies, "Under the best of circumstances, new oil resources take a decade to bring
One after another, John McCain and George Bush have offered the same arguments as to why the U.S. should drill for oil domestically and generally expand its oil industry:
Here's the reality: Drilling is a fraud.
Honestly, this isn't an environmental argument. As much as I want to stop global warming, save our pristine wilderness, and generally be good to the earth, this argument has nothing to do
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The high gas prices we're expericing now is a result of our
energy policy for the past thirty years. The reason we're dependent
on foreign oil is because of the moratorium prohibitng offshore
drilling. I understand environmentalist concerns about the
potential danger to the environment, but their concerns have ramped
into paranoia and crippled us from doing anything meaningful about
our energy sit
Statoil Indonesia Karama ASStatoil Indonesia Karama AS is part of the Norwegian Statoil-Hydro corporation, one of the world’s largest offshore operator. As operator for Production Sharing Contract with BP MIGAS for the Karama block on behalf of itself and of its co-ventures, Statoil Indonesia Karama AS plans to start exploration drilling of 3 wells in the ultra deep waters of West Sulawesi in la
(Washington D.C.) With oil prices approaching $150 a barrel and gasoline near $5 a gallon, President Bush has decided to act. Today he is calling for Congress to lift the ban on offshore oil drilling and for the band Sha Na Na to degrease their hair.
In what has become an annual rite of the past few summer’s President Bush blamed the Democratic Congress for the energy crisis for not allowing offshore oil drilling. "The President's proposal sounds like another page from the Administration's Energy Policy that was literally written by the oil industry: give away more public resources to the very same oil companies that are sitting on 68 millio
On Tuesday, Republican nominee John McCain said he favors offshore oil drilling in the U.S. to alleviate rising oil and gas prices. Echoing McCain, President Bush is calling on Congress today to end the federal ban on offshore drilling. Ironically, Bush’s father signed the executive order for the ban in 1990 and brother Jeb opposes [...]
Reversing a longstanding position, President Bush will call on Congress to end the ban on offshore oil drilling, underscoring how gas prices have become a major issue in the 2008 campaign.
