Several other U. S. oil companies also are engaged in offshore exploration, but so far with little success.

In this regard, the government has tried to develop the island into an offshore financial center, imitating the success of the Bahamas and other island nations around the world that have emerged as major offshore banking centers.

Similar to modern pinnipeds, Pteranodon may have competed to establish territory on rocky, offshore rookeries, with the largest, and largest-crested, males gaining the most territory and having more success mating with females.

Under the joint call sign of Wonderful Radio London via XERF and operating as a full service station at full power, Big L would be able to attract both the additional funding and advertising necessary to also make the new offshore project into a commercial success.

The company was primarily interested in offshore and inter-continental deliveries, but the success of FedEx prompted their own intra-US expansion starting in 1983.

Following the success of cobia aquaculture in Taiwan, emerging technology is being used to demonstrate the viability of raising hatchery-reared cobia in collaboration with the private sector primarily using SeaStation ™ and Aquapod ™ submerged cages at exposed offshore sites in Puerto Rico and the Bahamas.

The biggest success of Peckford's tenure was the signing of the Atlantic Accord, which led to the development of the province's offshore oil industry.

Press reports included rumours of offshore television stations and the brief success of the Dutch REM Island operation called Radio and TV Noordzee heightened the fear of the authorities that defacto unregulated broadcasting was becoming so entrenched due to its popularity that it would not be possible to stop it.

The legacy of the original Laser 558 was in its impact upon British broadcasting at the time, because it forced licensed stations to take note of the success of this short lived offshore station and to attempt to incorporate its ideas and some of its personnel into their own programming.

The success of the Drake well quickly led to oil drilling in other locations in the western Appalachian mountains, where oil was seeping to the surface, or where salt drillers had previously found oil fouling their salt wells.

On 5 October and later on 29 February 1936, the United States endeavoured, with limited success, to limit its exports of oil and other materials to normal peacetime levels.

Mazda's rotary success continued until the onset of the 1973 oil crisis.

The major conclusion of the report was that strategic bombing, particularly the destruction of the oil industry and truck manufacturing had greatly contributed to the success of the Allies in World War II.

* Tea tree oil ( melaleuca oil ) has been used with some success, where it is comparable to benzoyl peroxide but without excessive drying, kills P. acnes, and has been shown to be an effective anti-inflammatory in skin infections.

The olive oil obtained turned out to be quite a success in business terms as well.

Several exploratory wells were dug for oil, but without success.

Tico sold it in 1853 without much success to prospectors searching for oil.

Rowell initially achieved success by processing and selling burbot liver oil, after it was discovered to improve the fur of foxes living in the Rowell family fox farm.

By April with no success the venture was close to collapse and D ' Arcy almost bankrupt, but on May 16 there were encouraging signs and on May 26 at they struck oil.

This success and the previous Navy exploration of its petroleum reserve led petroleum engineers to the conclusion that the area of Alaska north of the Brooks Range surely held large amounts of oil and gas.

With the success of the Iranian revolution, Iraq became the second largest oil exporter in the world.

Soon he took to the production of carefully finished portrait miniatures ; meeting with success and patronage, he extended his practice to oil painting, at which he was self-taught.

Their success continued into the 1980s and by the later part of the decade, some 15 years after the oil crisis, hatchbacks almost monopolised most European small and medium car markets, and had gained a substantial share of the large family car market.

The crushing has variously been attributed to 1 ) the auto industry's successful federal court challenge to California's zero-emissions vehicle mandate, 2 ) a federal regulation requiring GM to produce and maintain spare parts for the few thousands EV1s and 3 ) the success of the oil and auto industries ' media campaign to reduce public acceptance of electric vehicles.

The raid, codenamed Operation Claymore, proved to be a considerable success, resulting in the capture of a number of wheels of the German Enigma encoding machine which helped the Allies to decode German radio traffic later in the war, as well as the destruction of a considerable amount of petrol and oil and the capture of several hundred Germans.

The raid was a success: 11 fish oil factories and storage tanks were destroyed, 10 ships sunk, 225 prisoners taken with an unknown number of German sailors killed on the sunken ships.

The rapid expansion of Mexico City is related to the country's economic development in the period after World War II, the widening of the manufacturing sector, the success of the oil industry, and the country's proximity to U. S. markets.

This initial success led to the construction of pipelines to connect crude oil production, increasingly moving west as new fields were discovered and Pennsylvania fields declined, to refineries located near major demand centers in the Northeast.

The oil money that fueled the success of Edwards's first two terms was in short supply in the third term.

Clinton won the 1992 presidential election ( 43. 0 % of the vote ) against Republican incumbent George H. W. Bush ( 37. 4 % of the vote ) and billionaire populist Ross Perot, who ran as an independent ( 18. 9 % of the vote ) on a platform focusing on domestic issues ; a significant part of Clinton's success was Bush's steep decline in public approval.

As the success of McCulloh ’ s parasail winchboat grew around the world, operators required different performance from their parasail canopies as they were no longer flying directly from the beach or a fixed platform.

Harding revamped the paper's editorial platform to support the Republican Party, and enjoyed a moderate degree of success.

The early Spectrum models ' great success as a games platform came in spite of its lack of built-in joystick ports, primitive sound generation, and colour support that was optimised for text display: the hardware limitations of the platform required a particular level of creativity from video game designers.

However, the success of the conservative opposition forced the moderate Bush to move further to the right than in 1988, and to incorporate many socially conservative planks in the party platform.

The European Survivability Workshop introduced the concept of " Mission Survivability " whilst retaining the three core areas above, either pertaining to the " survivability " of a platform through a complete mission, or the " survivability " of the mission itself ( i. e. probability of mission success ).

Featuring Chrysler's first mainstream rear-wheel drive platform since the 1980s and a revival of the Hemi V8 engine, it was a modest success.

By the late 1990s, the success of Microsoft Windows had driven rival commercial operating systems into near-extinction, and had ensured that the “ IBM PC compatible ” computer was the dominant computing platform.

Due to the late start and extensive delays releasing the second-generation MC88110, the m88k achieved very limited success outside of the MVME platform and embedded controller environments.

EOF enjoyed some niche success in the mid-1990s among financial institutions who were attracted to the rapid application development advantages of NeXT's object-oriented platform.

Despite a technical edge, the Archimedes only ever met a moderate success beyond the education sector, becoming a ' minority ' platform outside of certain niche markets.

He gave the example of the success story of Amazon in making huge profits each year by developing a full blown open platform that supports a large and thriving community of companies that re-use Amazon ’ s On Demand commerce services.

LucasArts developed a port of the enhanced edition for the Sega CD, but the release was eventually canceled because The Secret of Monkey Island failed to be much of a commercial success on the platform.

From the initial MB-trac 65 and MB-trac 70 ( later 700 ) a broad platform developed to the heavy-duty MT-trac 1800 within a few years, though the MB-trac was not a huge success.

While other parties ( Kach, Herut ) have advocated transfer, Moledet is the party most associated with this notion in Israel, due to its almost lack of any other element in its platform, and due to Ze ' evi's success in bringing together opposing elements ( in particular, both secular and religious ) under the transfer flag.

Despite this lack of support from IBM, CP / CMS achieved great success as a time-sharing platform ; by 1972, there were some 44 CP / CMS systems in use, including commercial sites that resold access to CP / CMS.

To cope with Chiltern Railways ' success over the last ten years and with increased passenger numbers, a new platform ( platform 6 ) was inaugurated in May 2006.

dBase was one of a very few " professional " programs on the platform at that time, and became a huge success.

Building upon the success of the NTRL, in early 2012 NTIS introduced a beta release of the new NTRL Repository Version 3. 0 which uses the open-source platform Fedora which provides a flexible, overarching repository solution.

It soon became apparent that especially in Vienna any political group that wanted to appeal to the artisans had no chance of success without an anti-Semitic platform.

The success of WinG in enabling high-performance game development on Windows led directly to the inception of DirectX, which became the standard game development platform for Microsoft Windows, and later for the Xbox and Xbox 360 video game consoles.

Part of the reason for the success of the PlayStation against the Sega Saturn was that the PlayStation was considered an easy platform to develop games, while the Sega Saturn, with its dual processors and overall complexity, frustrated developers instead.