Many of the largest operational onshore wind farms are located in the US.

Main oil and gas operations in the US were the Mid-Continent, Rocky Mountains, onshore Louisiana, and offshore in the Gulf of Mexico.

Hundreds of smaller companies search for onshore hydrocarbon deposits worldwide, with some wells costing as little as US $ 100, 000.

The company has operations in three areas in the continental US, the Texas Louisiana Gulf coast region, the east coast ( onshore ) and the west in the Rocky mountain states.

The NTSB said at US $ 800 million it was the costliest onshore spill cleanup in U. S. history.

Mod 0 armed Tomahawks are currently stored onshore, but there are / were plans to make this the primary US Navy nuclear weapon.

In 1996, offshore oil began flowing, and, with several US oil companies present in the country, the US reopened the embassy in October 2003.

In 2004, Woodside had agreed to invest $ US 600 million in developing Mauritania's Chinguetti offshore oil project.

* Nauru: US $ 70 billion of Russian capital flight laundered through unregulated Nauru offshore shell banks, late 1990s

European warships anchored offshore enforced this port's neutrality throughout the US Civil War, with occasional stare downs with the Yankee Navy blockaders.

In October 2007, Fujitsu announced that it would be establishing an offshore development centre in Noida, India with a capacity to house 1, 200 employees, in an investment of US $ 10 million.

Foreign Sales Corporations ( FSCs ) was a means formerly provided by United States taxation law for US companies to receive a reduction in US federal income taxes for profits derived from exports, through the use of an offshore subsidiary ( a " Foreign Sales Corporation ").

Several US Navy destroyers were stationed offshore near Guantánamo Bay to give the appearance of an impending invasion fleet.

In 1861, American President Abraham Lincoln ordered his Secretary of State, William Henry Seward ( who was later to purchase the Russian Territory of Alaska for the US in 1867 ), to meet with the Mexican charge d ’ affaires Matias Romero to explore the possibility of purchasing the island of Cozumel for the purpose of relocating freed American slaves offshore.

In January 1990 with the company in the same state as its previous incarnations, it was awarded a contract to drill for crude oil off the coast of Bahrain, a move that shocked industry insiders as Harken had no previous experience outside of the US or of drilling offshore.

Malaysian moves involved fixing the local currency to the US dollar, stopping the overseas trade in ringgit currency and other ringgit assets therefore making offshore use of the ringgit invalid, restricting the amount of currency and investments that residents can take abroad, and imposed for foreign portfolio funds, a minimum one-year " stay period " which since has been converted to an exit tax.

Artillery fire from ground forces and the USS Monocacy offshore pounded the citadel in preparation for an assault by US forces.

Funds for the purchase came from the Land and Water Conservation Fund derived from royalties the US government receives from offshore petroleum and natural gas drilling.

Persons subject to US income tax, for example, are required to declare on penalty of perjury, any offshore bank accounts — which may or may not be numbered bank accounts — they may have.

Among offshore banks, Swiss banks hold an estimated 35 % of the world's private and institutional funds ( or 3 trillion Swiss francs ), and the Cayman Islands ( 1. 9 trillion US dollars in deposits ) are the fifth largest banking centre globally in terms of deposits.

A series of articles published on June 23, 2006, by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Los Angeles Times revealed that the United States government, specifically the US Treasury Department and the CIA, had a program to access the SWIFT transaction database after the September 11th attacks ( see the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program ) rendering offshore banking for privacy severely compromised.

If you said the US, the UK, the major G7 banks will not deal with offshore bank centers that don't comply with G7 banks regulations, these banks could not exist.

Currently, cobia are being cultured in nurseries and grow-out offshore cages many parts of Asia and off the coast of US, Mexico and Panama.

The US Geological Survey estimates that the North Cuba Basin contains of undiscovered petroleum liquids and 9. 8 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, almost all in the offshore part of the basin.

The issue of allowing oil and gas exploration offshore Florida became a hotly contested topic in the 2008 US elections.

By the 1990s, the brand was facing competition from other brands and cheaper products from overseas, and began accelerating the pace of its US factory closures and its use of offshore subcontracting agreements.

* Submarine Base 1943 — US Drama directed by Albert H. Kelley depicting Nazi spies using stolen shortwave transmitter prototype to broadcast top secret shipping info to offshore Imperial Japanese Navy submarine

In regions with a high natural gas demand ( such as the US ), pipelines are constructed when it is economically feasible to transport gas from a wellsite to an end consumer.

US pipeline maintenance rules are covered in Code of Federal Regulations ( CFR ) sections, 49 CFR 192 for natural gas pipelines, and 49 CFR 195 for petroleum liquid pipelines.

In Canada, pipelines are regulated by either the provincial regulators or, if they cross provincial boundaries or the Canada / US border, by the National Energy Board ( NEB ).

As Deputy Commander of the Naval Education and Training Command, his duties included commanding the US Navy's extensive education and training programs, for which he initiated a project to develop a distributed data management system for more efficient management of training pipelines.

By 1956, however, further difficulties had arisen: until the US government granted formal approval for a part of the route which connected to US pipelines, Trans-Canada could not raise enough money to build its portion.

On 12 March 2007, Schering-Plough Corp. purchased Organon International, the drug unit of Netherlands-based Akzo Nobel, for $ 14. 4 billion, giving the US pharmaceutical company an array of women's health products and numerous late-stage pipelines of experimental medicines.

Alternatively, according to a paper presented at the 55th International Astronautical Congress in Vancouver in October 2004, the space elevator can be considered a prestige megaproject and the current estimated cost of building it ( US $ 6. 2 billion ) is rather favourable when compared to the costs of constructing bridges, pipelines, tunnels, tall towers, high speed rail links, maglevs and the like.

President Carlos Menem initiated the privatization of many of the firm's refineries, filling stations, pipelines, and oil fields in 1991, netting US $ 1. 5 billion by 1993.

On January 26, three US F-117 fighter bombers destroyed pipelines to prevent further spillage into the Persian Gulf.

Dynamite was patented in the US and the UK and was used extensively in mining and the building of transport networks internationally.

US dollar is used

( It is important to note that in the US some states prohibit the use of the word ' Architect ' to be used in any way to describe an unlicensed person who is in the architectural profession.

Aesthetic coupling between art-objects and medical topics was made by speakers working for the US Information Agency This coupling was made to reinforce the learning paradigm when English-language speakers used translators to address audiences in their own country.

High-alcohol liquor, two forms of which were in the US Pharmacopoeia up until 1916 and in common use by physicians well into the 1930s, has been used in the past as an agent for dulling pain, due to the CNS depressant effects of ethyl alcohol, a notable example being the American Civil War.

In 1999 they brought a legal challenge to this patent which had granted a private US citizen " ownership " of the knowledge of a plant that is well-known and sacred to many indigenous peoples of the Amazon, and used by them in religious and healing ceremonies.

By 1911, his description of the disease was being used by European physicians to diagnose patients in the US.

It was given its name from the color of the orange-striped 55 US gallon ( 208 l ) barrels in which it was shipped, and was by far the most widely used of the so-called " Rainbow Herbicides ".

Starting in 1991, the US Congress asked the Institute of Medicine to review the scientific literature on Agent Orange and the other herbicides used in Vietnam, including their active ingredients and the dioxin contaminant.

There is a noun use in US English, meaning " a chemical agent used in lethal injections "?

By the early 1960s, US research on the Nike Zeus missile system had developed to the point where small improvements would allow it to be used as the basis of a " real " ABM system.

While English and Russian are the dominant languages used by Aleuts living in the US and Russia respectively, the Aleut language is still spoken by several hundred people.

A normal activity for high schools in the US is attending Friday night football games in Autumn, while Sunday afternoons are reserved for the professional game, particularly the National Football League, and Saturdays are traditionally used for college football.

Despite the much-vaunted capabilities, the Phoenix was rarely used in combat, with only two confirmed launches and no confirmed targets destroyed in US Navy service, though a large number of kills were claimed by Iranian F-14s during the Iran – Iraq War.

As the only surviving member of the Falcon missile family, it was not adopted by any other nation ( besides Iran ), any other US armed service, or used on any other aircraft.

The official currency of the British Virgin Islands has been the US dollar since 1959, a currency also used by the United States Virgin Islands.

To replace the Embraer P-95 Bandeirulha in the maritime patrol duties, 12 Lockheed P-3A Orions have been bought from US Navy surplus and eight ( with an option for a ninth ) of them are being upgraded by EADS CASA in Spain, the remainder are to be used as spare parts source.

Because of traditionally close links with the U. S. Virgin Islands, the British Virgin Islands has used the US dollar as its currency since 1959.

In 1880, the French government awarded Bell the Volta Prize of 50, 000 francs ( approximately US $ 10, 000 at that time, about $ in current dollars ) for the invention of the telephone, which he used to found the Volta Laboratory, along with Sumner Tainter and Bell's cousin Chichester Bell.

Some of these products may have been exported and used in bubble tea shops in the US and around the world.

In 2002, the US remake of Queer as Folk used the song " Smalltown Boy " in an episode.

* United States: The US has never used mass immunization of BCG, relying instead on the detection and treatment of latent tuberculosis.

* T-1A Jayhawk Military version of Model 400 used as a trainer for pilots of large aircraft in the US military.

A version of the archbar truck was at one time also used on US Railway car # Freight cars | freight cars

The US calendar display is also used in Britain.