Traduction de «installation de forage » (Français → Anglais) :

Given the high standards in North Sea oil drilling in Scotland, I do not think a uniform moratorium on new drilling is the best way to tackle this issue, but instead that detailed safety checks should be paramount in any decision to award new licences.

At the same time, Europe must devise measures supporting intervention in the case of disasters, like the one in the Gulf of Mexico, and must submit a coordinated European action plan to prevent emergency situations and tackle disasters caused by drilling rigs, at global level, especially where cross-border pollution occurs.

Secondly, we have an information response system ready to fight disasters caused by oil spills from tankers or drilling and production facilities.

We have binding new standards and requirements applicable to offshore drilling and oil production facilities as regards equipment standards, worker safety, environmental sustainability, emergency prevention and preparedness.

Mr Oettinger, in the face of the drama in the Gulf of Mexico, drilling installations for extracting crude oil or gas should never be allowed to appear without a 100% guarantee of safety for the seas and oceans concerned.

Progress of this kind makes it possible to get a better idea of the underground structure of the European continent, characterised as it is by great variety and tectonic complexity; - the development of drilling installations on board dynamically positioned vessels capable of drilling for oil, in hostile environments, at depths of as much as 1,800 meters; - the development of a fully automated, remotely controlled oil production system on the seabed designed to make possible the economic exploitation of marginal fields, notably those in the North Sea; - the development of the SWOPS production system for exploiting small accumulations ...[+++]and for early production operations of oil fields; A strategy for improved exploitation of European oil and gas resources The implementation of support programmes for Community technological evelopment projects in the hydrocarbons sector is carried out within the framework of Community Energy Policy objectives, specifically those relating to security of supply and to promoting technological innovation in the energy sector.