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It will be about half that going into drilling the wells and about half going into the facilities.

The tunnel where we were trapped was about 60 square meters, like a big room with no windows. Fortunately, we found air blowing in from one of the two ventilation pipes, one of which was already broken. We also collected the water left in the drilling machine and a broken pipeline.

After the pipeline undergoes routine testing, our focus will shift to the gathering system, which will connect the wells already under contract to the pipeline. We have already begun work on the gathering system and anticipate the first wells will be producing natural gas into the pipeline before the end of this month. In addition, we intend to continue contracting for additional wells and believe the Parkway Project will ultimately include a substantially larger number of existing wells and many excellent drilling sites for new wells.

Anyone who claims that drilling in the Arctic Refuge will substantially reduce gas prices is either astonishingly misinformed or is intentionally not telling the truth to the American people.

The contentious matter of whether or not to begin drilling in Alaska has no place in a bill that funds the Department of Defense. The needs of our troops serving in combat should never be subject to such cynical politics.

In D.C., I've passed amendments to allocate $6.3 million to keep our waterways open for business, $1 million as a down payment on our wetland restoration - our natural storm protection - and $5 million to ensure that drilling permits are reviewed thoroughly and efficiently.

In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I recall what I was taught in fifth-grade American government class, we elect presidents to do more than crass political calculations.

If you look at the actual facts on the ground, they have thousands of more drilling permits in their pockets than they can even drill on. So why is Congress or the administration always looking for ways to exempt the wealthiest companies in the world from their environmental responsibilities?

Instead of undermining protections that America's coasts have long enjoyed, the Sierra Club is urging Congress and the administration to move more in the direction of Senators Nelson and Martinez. It's time to shift the national debate on offshore drilling closer to securing permanent protection for America's fragile coasts.

In fact, Senator Reid's leadership and confidence that the filibuster was the right thing to do was critical to the defeat of the drilling provision last year.

In 2005, we executed a dynamic drilling program, posted a 16.2 percent daily production increase, achieved a 35.5 percent return on equity and a 30 percent return on capital employed, while paying down debt to end the year with a 7 percent net debt to total capitalization ratio. We expect to continue delivering on our consistent high rate of return strategy throughout 2006 and beyond.

But it's being abused by the oil lobby and proponents of drilling to try to get the legislation through a back door.

Because we've been drilling, drilling and drilling them (in practice), there's only so much you can do.

By allowing gas drilling on these lands, the agency is ignoring public opinion and the conclusions of its own multiyear process.

I don't think there's a day that goes by that we don't talk about his situation. When he's drilling in the room, he's not drilling moves. He's wrestling a state tournament match every day in the room.

He's in Africa - Ethiopia - drilling wells for people.

I continue to like oil service plays and this one fits that bill real good. I think they're in a good spot in which they have relatively high horsepower rigs. With drilling demand currently, those are more likely to be in demand.

This is natural further step in our growth strategy. Having built a large portfolio of development and exploration opportunities and secured drilling rig capacity through our contract with Dolphin AS, we have now secured the necessary funding to adequately finance our planned projects.

The holdup is they want to make sure they're drilling in the right place. In this particular case, you have to determine where you best think the miners are going to be located and then transfer that data to the surface point.

The gullies may be of prime importance for human exploration. They may represent locations of relatively new surface liquid water, which can be accessed by crews drilling on the Red Planet.

The industry is awash in federal drilling permits. They have so many, they don't know what to do with them.

The drilling rigs that we have in the Gulf have basically ceased operations ... and moved to a safe location,

The company is highly encouraged by the geographical extent of the gold values encountered so far and we remain confident that further drilling will enhance and expand the mineral potential that we have already identified.

The Department of Energy says that drilling in ANWR will do little in the near term and very little in the long term, reducing gas prices by only one penny,

The Mallen #10-1 is a direct offset location to two prolific wells. This is the first of several locations we plan to re-enter in the Sooner Trend Field, using new cost efficient directional drilling technology provided by Weatherford Directional Services, Inc.

The last time drilling was profitable like this was in 1981, making this a stars-are-aligned, once-in-a-generation moment.

Screwing is more enjoyable than drilling bolt holes !.

Mining in BC's Sacred Headwaters is like drilling for oil in the Sistine Chapel