Activities related to oil and gas exploration, including geophysical seismic surveying, pipelaying and drilling operations, increased vessel traffic, and oil spills, all pose potential threats to western gray whales.

Multiphase pumping applications, also referred to as tri-phase, have grown due to increased oil drilling activity.

By 1980, West Texas had experienced a dramatic oil boom with greatly increased drilling activity and an influx of new people in blue-collar jobs.

He believes that public health care should be provided only to the elderly and children, that drug control policy should be a state and not a federal issue, that alternative fuels are a long-term solution but that increased oil drilling is required in the short term, and that investment tax credits should be provided for farm investment.

These processes increase the durability, dimensional stability and hardness of the treated wood by at least one class ; however, the treated wood is darkened in colour, and there are changes in certain mechanical characteristics: specifically, the modulus of elasticity is increased to 10 %, and the modulus of rupture is diminished by 5 % to 20 % ; thus, the treated wood requires drilling for nailing to avoid splitting the wood.

During Toomey's tenure in Congress, he supported legislation that would speed up approval of forest thinning projects in 2003, supported opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling and development, opposed implementing the Kyoto Protocol, and opposed legislation that would mandate increased vehicle fuel efficiency standards and provide incentives for alternative fuels.

Being slow, cable tool rig drilling means increased wages for drillers.

As tensions between the North and South increased over the winter of 1860 – 1861, Walker equipped himself and began drilling with Major Devens ' 3rd Battalion of Rifles in Worcester and New York.

During the Iran – Iraq War, Iraqi oil drilling operations in Rumaila declined while Kuwait's operations increased.

Even with new techniques, significant drilling did not begin until gas prices increased in the late 1990s.

Natural gas drilling increased in the United States after the Environmental Protection Agency said in 2004 that hydraulic fracturing, " posed little or no threat " to drinking water.

Cases of cancer had increased dramatically in the region since oil drilling began.

This is often evident when drilling fast because the effective density in the annulus is increased by cuttings.

Political theoretical understanding, although almost at a standstill during this century, did develop during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and resulted in a flood of inventions which increased the possibility for man to coexist with man.

Repeated attempts to withdraw steroids entirely were unsuccessful because increased muscle weakness resulted, as well as fever, malaise, anorexia, anxiety, and an exacerbation of the anemia.

This oxygen level probably increased wildfire activity, as well as resulted in insect and amphibian gigantism -- creatures whose size is constrained by respiratory systems that are limited in their ability to diffuse oxygen.

In 2005, a reassessment of residential property values resulted in a disproportionate number of houses owned by non-affluent people jumping in value relative to other houses, with hundreds having their property tax increased by over 100 %; this forced many homeowners in Cambridge to move elsewhere.

However, as the marine microbiota recovered, it is thought that increased speciation of benthic foraminifera resulted from the increase in food sources.

In addition, Deccan Trap volcanism might have resulted in carbon dioxide emissions that increased the greenhouse effect when the dust and aerosols cleared from the atmosphere.

Following the resignation of Labor MP Alison Anderson in 2009 to become an independent which then resulted in 2011 to become a member of the CLP, this increased to CLP's margin to 12 in the Assembly, leaving the incumbent Henderson Government to govern in minority with the support of Independent MP Gerry Wood.

The two recent conflicts ( the First and Second Congo Wars ), which began in 1996, have dramatically reduced national output and government revenue, have increased external debt, and have resulted in deaths of more than five million people from war, and associated famine and disease.

This resulted in an increased strategic control over Iranian oil by U. S. and Britain companies.

The first clinical trial, involving 30 women with breast cancer, combined insulin with low-dose methotrexate ( a common chemotherapy drug ) resulted in greatly increased stable disease, and much reduced progressive disease, compared with insulin or low-dose methotrexate alone.

Rather than becoming direct competitors to the Muslim merchants, the expanding market opportunities in Europe and the Mediterranean resulted in increased trade across the Sahara.

It resulted in their increased share in the overall composition of the camp prisoners.

This resulted in increased worker productivity, less fatigue, and improved sleep.

They have maintained this position because of advances which have resulted in increased recording capacity, reliability, and speed, as well as decreased cost, allowing them to keep pace with ever more demanding requirements for secondary storage.

a long civil war and recurrent drought in the hinterlands have resulted in increased migration of the population to urban and coastal areas with adverse environmental consequences ; desertification ; pollution of surface and coastal waters ; elephant poaching for ivory is a problem

The widespread use and misuse of antibiotics has resulted in increased microbial resistance to antibiotics in clinical use, to the point that the methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ( MRSA ) has been described as a " superbug " because of the threat it poses to health and its relative invulnerability to existing drugs.

The third event was land colonization, which resulted from the availability of land, the existence of economic opportunity, the increased price of crops, and the newly gained accessibility of the eastern border region.

With the conveniences stamps offered, their use resulted in greatly increased mailings during the 19th and 20th centuries.

Ministry of Trade and Industry analysts stated that poor export performance resulted from structural problems embedded in the nation's economy, including an overly strong won, increased wages and high labor costs, frequent strikes, and high interest rates.

Political extremism is not a widespread phenomenon in Switzerland, although far-left extremism has increased slightly since the turn of the century in 2000 has resulted in improved organization of the far left, but it has no noticeable impact on parliamentary or direct democracy.

This has resulted in increased density in older suburbs and, often, the growth of lower density suburbs even further from city centers.

Encouraged by the commodity boom of the mid-1970s, which resulted in a fourfold increase in phosphate prices and sharply increased government revenues, Togo embarked on an overly ambitious program of large investments in infrastructure while pursuing industrialization and development of state enterprises in manufacturing, textiles, and beverages.

The growing popularity of the activity has resulted not just in increased attention from explorers, but also from vandals and Law Enforcement.

This increased level of vampire superstition in Europe led to mass hysteria and in some cases resulted in corpses actually being staked and people being accused of vampirism.

The total value of our industry's shipments, at factory prices, increased from $9.2 billion in 1959 to approximately $10.1 billion as a result of increases in all of the major segments of our business -- home entertainment, military, industrial, and replacement.

Mason and Taylor both show that the major axis of the ellipsoids is at 45-degrees at low rates of shear and that it approaches the direction of shear with increased rates of shear.

Mines need to be recognized as a major element in anti-submarine warfare employment, extended to deep water, and have their effective area per unit increased.

As the body prepares to deal with a threat, blood pressure, heart rate, perspiration, blood flow to the major muscle groups are increased, while immune and digestive functions are inhibited ( the fight or flight response ).

Although the external dimensions of the Sparrow remained relatively unchanged from model to model, the internal components of newer missiles represent major improvements, with vastly increased capabilities.

The Beanos first major revamp was in the 50th birthday issue of 1988, when the page number was increased, the comic had a wider paper style, and more colour was used throughout.

In the 1945-46 session alone, pensions and other benefits were substantially increased, and from 1945 to 1948, over 200 public Acts of Parliament were passed, with eight major pieces of legislation placed on the statute book in 1946 alone.

In most major markets, however, prices are no longer regulated due to increased competition for broadcast distribution from satellite television.

After major refurbishment work was carried out in 2004, the ground's capacity has increased gradually from 22, 000 to its current capacity of 25, 700.

While there is not a large body of academic work examining the relationship, Hironaka's statistical study found a correlation that suggests that every major international anti-secessionist declaration increased the number of ongoing civil wars by + 10 %, or a total + 114 % from 1945 to 1997.

In the 19th century, the area's population began to grow as it became a major supplier of wool to the booming textile industry in Britain and shipping traffic increased ( the British, in return, began importing Morocco's now famous national drink, gunpowder tea ).

In the 19th century, introduction of steamboats in the United States was the cause of deforestation of banks of major rivers, such as the Mississippi River, with increased and more severe flooding one of the environmental results.

It is also a major source of land degradation, evaporation, desertification, harmful airborne dust, and crop damage — especially after being increased far above natural rates by human activities such as deforestation, urbanization, and agriculture.

This increased runoff, in addition to eroding and degrading the land that it flows over, also causes major disruption to surrounding watersheds by altering the volume and rate of water that flows through them, and filling them with chemically polluted sedimentation.

The major environmental groups responded with mass mailings which led to increased membership and donations.

The increased time gained by issuing accurate warnings of severe weather will be crucial to save lives, for instance by evacuating a large number of people from endangered areas ( e. g. storm surges in the North Sea ), or taking cautionary actions to avoid major threats to goods and services ( e. g. extreme winds ).

The strategic importance of the site was increased by the fact that it lay on a major river estuary, where vessels could dock at the port of Suso.

The two powerful groups making up the community — the priestly families who controlled the Temple and who traced their foundation-myth to Moses and the wilderness wanderings, and the major landowning families who made up the " elders " and who traced their own origins to Abraham, who had " given " them the land — were in conflict over many issues, and each had its own " history of origins ", but the Persian promise of greatly increased local autonomy for all provided a powerful incentive to cooperate in producing a single text.

Wars continued, but they were no longer so devastating to the civilian population ; famines and major epidemics did not occur, but increased agricultural productivity led to a higher birth rate, and a lower death rate.

Australia's ties with the UK dwindled rapidly as Britain closed foreign bases, disengaged from its former territories East of Suez and began courting the EEC, as a result of which American investment in Australia increased dramatically and Australia's onetime enemy Japan replaced the UK as Australia's major trading partner.

This was reflected in a move towards denser, more urban styles of building, including a greatly increased number of tall buildings, and proposals for major enhancements to the public transport network.

Fishing, using bone tipped harpoons, became a major activity in the numerous streams and lakes formed from the increased rains.

Great Britain became the only major power in the Atlantic, and as it increased naval pressure against Napoleon, it inadvertently did the same against American ships.

* Increased revenue or market share: This assumes that the buyer will be absorbing a major competitor and thus increase its market power ( by capturing increased market share ) to set prices.