1.   The fundamental shift towards allowing outside concessions to take new exploration areas, represents good long-term opportunities for the Wood Group.

2.   Among the departments to go is the Energy Ministry whose bureaucracy, foreign operators complained, was delaying the allocation of new exploration and production permits.

3.   A series of new exploration projects is expected to bring billions of dollars in investment to Venezuela.

4.   Clinton has launched us on a new exploration.

5.   Here was an example of the new exploration.

6.   House Republicans failed to include anticipated lease fees from new exploration in a budget framework.

7.   Higher prices were expected to benefit oil drillers, as the potential gains from costly new exploration increased.

8.   In general, national monument status prohibits any new mineral exploration, drilling for gas and oil, or mining.

9.   Last week, the government said it banned Marcopper and Placer Dome from pursuing new exploration projects in the Philippines.

10.   Norton is a strong advocate of new exploration and exploitation of natural resources, though she has hedged on the issue of what to do in Florida.