How to Use deepwater in a Sentence

deepwater

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• In 2013, the two companies drilled a deepwater well together in the gulf.
  — Robert Faturechi, ProPublica, 16 Mar. 2023
• The project will include two pipelines to carry crude from shore to the deepwater port, reducing the need for ship-to-ship transfers of oil.
  — Matthew Daly, Quartz, 11 Apr. 2024
• The depot, which includes two deepwater docks, is close to opening.
  — Keith Schneider, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2020
• The dive was part of an expedition in the Gulf of Alaska to explore deepwater habitats.
  — CBS News, 8 Sep. 2023
• Ultra-deepwater drilling is so complex that experts liken it to space travel, and the dangers are well known.
  — Antonia Juhasz, WIRED, 20 Dec. 2022
• Plans include $600 million to build the nation’s first deepwater Arctic port in Nome.
  — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Aug. 2023
• The answer came from the Port of Stockton, which regularly dredges the nearby deepwater channel and was looking for a place to dump sand.
  — Judith Prieve, The Mercury News, 5 May 2024
• For centuries, the deepwater, Caribbean harbor in Charlotte Amalie welcomed traders and tourists from across the globe.
  — Joe Sills, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
• At a coarse level, there are three types of shipping, transoceanic or deepwater routes, short sea or near shore routes and inland shipping.
  — Michael Barnard, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• The lavish Lowcountry compound also includes a 550-foot deepwater dock, a kayak launch, and a boat lift.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 15 Aug. 2023
• The cofounder of the company whose submersible imploded on a visit to the deepwater site of the Titanic’s remains is turning his eyes to the stars.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 1 Aug. 2023
• Much smaller than the colossal squid, at only a foot in length at most, its eyes are around an inch wide, useful for parsing out light in its deepwater habitat.
  — Max Bennett, Discover Magazine, 23 Feb. 2024
• When deepwater fish are brought rapidly to the surface, gases in their organs and tissues expand.
  — Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2019
• Oil experts say a key reason for the interest was that exploration in the deepwater oil fields — known as pre-salt, for their blanket of salt — has become less risky and cheaper over the years.
  — Vinod Sreeharsha, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2017
• Another potential prospect is the Calypso field, off the coast of the island of Tobago, which could be the nation’s first deepwater gas field.
  — Clifford Krauss, New York Times, 15 May 2023
• Russia needed the expertise of an oil giant like Exxon to extract the deepwater reserves.
  — Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2018
• Declining costs for deepwater drilling projects could give OPEC another headache within a year and may prolong the global oil glut.
  — Luke Kawa, Bloomberg.com, 31 May 2017
• These companies are eager to search for untapped, deepwater fossil fuels by firing dozens of air cannons into the ocean, five or six times a minute, for months on end.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 6 July 2017
• The country’s only deepwater Arctic port was completed around the same time, so the wheat sent from Canadian farms by rail could be shipped to European markets.
  — Catherine Porter, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2017
• Lionfish thrive in many marine habitats, from mangroves and seagrass beds to deepwater reefs and shipwrecks.
  — Osmar J. Luiz, The Conversation, 1 June 2023
• As the world’s fish stocks decline and fleets stay at sea longer, workers aboard some deepwater Chinese squid ships face difficult living conditions that can lead to a fatal disease.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2023
• The extra barrels that refiners needed flowed from extremely high-cost, deepwater wells in such locales Russian arctic and off the Brazil's Atlantic coast.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 30 Apr. 2020
• In part, that’s because scientists knew little about the habits of many deepwater marine mammals before the spill, so have trouble detecting changes from current data.
  — National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2020
• Russia has committed financial and military assets to the Arctic to stake its claim to the region's vast deepwater mineral, oil and gas deposits.
  — Ted Cruz, CNN, 29 May 2017
• Researchers in Australia recently discovered a new species of demon catshark – a dusky deepwater shark with striking white eyes – by following a trail of some odd-looking eggs.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 3 July 2023
• The researchers concluded that constructing deepwater wind farms would not measurably slow the movement of this energy.
  — Gregory Brew, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2017
• Although tropical reef corals are the best known, scientists are increasingly finding cold and deepwater corals of various species and hues.
  — National Geographic, 21 Dec. 2016
• More than half of that non-cash charge is related to natural gas properties in Appalachia, although Chevron is also writing down the value of a major Gulf of Mexico deepwater oil drilling project.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 11 Dec. 2019
• The deal is expected to include an investment to build a deepwater container terminal on the former 114-acre Chemours Edgemoor chemical plant site.
  — Andrew Maykuth, Philly.com, 23 Mar. 2018
• A few years ago, Peter Coope, Buckle’s chief engineer, was working on a commercial vessel that was affixing an enormous, deepwater anchor to an oil rig off the coast of Indonesia.
  — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 10 May 2020

Last Updated: 26 Aug 2024