Ships on a captive register will fly the same flag as the parent country, or a local variant of it, but will be subject to the maritime laws and taxation rules of the offshore territory.
An estimated 40% of the world's offshore oil production comes from the Indian Ocean.
Efforts to increase GDP include the promotion of tourism and a financial services industry, although the International Banking Repeal Act of 2002 resulted in the termination of all offshore banking licenses.
The high cost of recovering offshore oil and gas, combined with the wide swings in world prices for oil since 1985, has led to fluctuations in new drillings.
Gabon depended on timber and manganese until oil was discovered offshore in the early 1970s.
The island nation has been able to attract foreign business and investment, especially in its offshore banking and tourism industries.
Offshore oil drilling was given a boost in 2004 when the State Oil Company (Staatsolie) signed exploration agreements with Repsol, Mearsk, and Occidental.
However, offshore oil prospecting has begun and could lead to much-needed revenue in the long run.
At Long Key the Gulf Stream is offshorefive miles.
We are met at the outset by the fact that they are frequently taken on trawl lines which are set at the depth of one hundred fathoms or more, on the offshore banks.
He workedoffshore some two hundred yards, where be led me in water half to my hips.
It was not a narrow strip as men had thought, but a broad belt a thousand miles long by a thousand broad, an unclaimed world; for storms drove Cook offshore here; and the English discoverer did not land till abreast of British America.
Sloops were anchored offshorefully armed for refuge in case of attack.
If he had not been driven offshore here, he might have been just two weeks before Gray on the Columbia, and made good England's claim of all territory between New Spain and Alaska.
Vancouver was too far offshore to see that there really was a break in the surf wash.
Back to visit Guam a half century later, a former Japanese lieutenant said the tremendous American invasion fleet offshore had “paved the sea” and recalled what he thought on 21 July: “This is the day I will die.
It would also be up to the 9th Marines to take Cabras, a little island offshore and hard against Apra Harbor.
The division reserve, Combat Team A, might employ elements of the 5th Marines to reinforce the Cape Gloucester landings or conduct operations against the offshore islands west of New Britain.
And the American supply ships were able to return offshore to unload their vital cargoes.
We then steered away for the offshore ground, which is about three thousand miles west of the coast of Peru.
Then we sailed for the "offshore ground" a famous place for sperm whale.
The pirate ship cleared the point, nearly a mile away, and came flying down, every inch of canvas drawing in the stiff offshore breeze.
The government has also discussed the possibility for joint exploration of offshore petroleum deposits in the Black Sea and elsewhere in the world with oil interests of various countries.
Minesweepers have limited offshore capability but, if protected, could clear the Danube River and essential parts of its delta.
It is gathered with the hands, aided perhaps by a stone or stick for dislodging the shells either from the extended offshore beds at extreme low water, or from the roots of a mangrove-like shrub at a medium stage.
Beach sands rich in heavy minerals and offshore placer deposits are actively exploited by bordering countries, particularly India, South Africa, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Thailand.
In 1985, the government began offering offshore registration to companies wishing to incorporate in the islands, and incorporation fees now generate substantial revenues.
Exploitation of offshore oil and gas reserves is playing an ever-increasing role in the energy supplies of Australia, NZ, China, US, and Peru.
Any such naked use of force would pose an issue far transcending the offshore islands and even the security of Taiwan (Formosa).
In virtually every Peiping broadcast, Taiwan (Formosa) and the offshore islands are linked as the objective of what is called the "Chinese Peoples Liberation Army".
In addition, there is a joint resolution which the Congress passed in January 1955 dealing specifically with Formosa and the offshoreislands of Free China in the Formosa Straits.
They said that they were entitled to Formosa and the offshore islands and that, if they used armed force to get them, that was purely a "civil war" and that the United Nations had no right to concern itself.
There are measures that can be taken to assure that these offshore islands will not be a thorn in the side of peace.
In virtually every Peiping broadcast Taiwan (Formosa) and the offshore islands are linked as the objective of what is called the "Chinese Peoples Liberation Army.
To be plunged into an encounter with a gang of unknown ruffians on his first night offshore was more than he had bargained for.
Percy, old man, what do you mean by hiding yourself away offshorein a lonesome spot like this?
Looks kind of small and lonesome when you're running offshore for it; but it's pretty good to make after an all-day fishing-trip.
Those old grubbers belong to the offshore school; they stay outside, and never come in on the rocks.
Not far offshore were the vague outlines of a schooner.
A strange plane rode in the lazy swell offshore in Starfish Cove.
No, but offshore and not far distant a bright searchlight suddenly cut athwart the night, putting the moonlight to shame.
That it was in working order, there was no doubt, for it was the station's issue of radio control to the liquor containers offshore which they had overheard before deciding to investigate.
Would the smugglers in the liquor ship offshore be likely to show a light?
At the time, McKay had standing offshore an Eagle boat, built for submarine chasing during the World War, but which two years earlier the United States government had sold during a period of reduction of expenses.
He was close offshore by the greatest of good luck.
Instead of tying up their overseas bankroll for years, they stick to offshore investments that can be called in tomorrow.
So instead of being convertible into the stock of some cash-rich corporation, the way they were intended, those flip-bonds are going to give their holders a piece of some offshore phone booth with zero assets and enough debt to choke a horse.
I estimated the professional dirt farmer next to me, Armani double-breasted and gold Piaget timepiece, was now worth about forty million, including a chunk of an offshore bank.
In the meantime Henderson was taking care of our banking preparations, opening a string of accounts, mostly offshore where we could move with comparative anonymity.
Using his connections, he'd opened accounts for hundreds of dummy corporations in about two dozen offshore banks.
If somebody doesn't come in here and help run them right, they're probably headed offshore anyway.
That old standby Delaware should do fine, though you might want to consider going for some offshore tax-haven places, if only because the paperwork is minimal.
In eastern Asia the winters are relatively dry and clear, under the influence of the coldoffshore monsoon, and the summers are warm and rainy.
Owing to the prevailing offshore winds, the oceans to leeward have relatively little effect.
It is late in the afternoon when we pull out from Chipewyan, but the sun is still heaven-high, with the offshore air a tonic.
As the captain finds, amid shifting sandbars, a fairway for his vessel, there comes offshore the subdued night-noises of the small wild things that populate the wilderness.
He had been in such case more than once upon his return from the offshore seal-hunt.
Patience soon gave way to impatience, impatience to anxiety, anxiety to great fear for the lives of his father and the mate, for the offshore gale was driving up; the blue-black clouds were already high and rising swiftly.
And I knew that the offshore wind would sweep the ice to sea the minute it broke up.
Three hundred yards offshore half a dozen power trollers wheeled and counterwheeled, working an eddy.
A little distance offshore the ice broke up under the influence of the wind and sea, and the disruption continued until the piece they were on was scarce twenty yards in diameter.
Doubtless the sea opened suddenly by one of those offshore winds which bring ice-free water as by magic.
For two days the cutter layoffshore while a truce was argued, the upshot being that four of the rascals gave in and the others were left behind.
He then ran offshore and picked up and carried into Boston two English privateers headed for New York with large cargoes of merchandise from the West Indies.
Marblehead was then the foremost fishing port with two hundred brigs and schooners on the offshore banks.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "offshore" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
