Sentences with phrase «from oil drilling rigs»

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OSLO, April 18 - Offshore oil driller Seadrill plans to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy in late June or early July to catch the rising wave of rig market activity, its chief executive told said on Wednesday.

OSLO, April 18 (Reuters)- Offshore oil driller Seadrill plans to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy in late June or early July to catch the rising wave of rig market activity, its chief executive told said on Wednesday.

Beyond the actual gas project and LNG sales, China's state - run shipping conglomerate COSCO has also secured a 50 percent stake in the four LNG shipping carriers serving Yamal.90 Chinese engineers and workers have been deployed to the Yamal Peninsula to help construct surrounding infrastructure, which includes a Chinese - produced polar drilling rig.91 Moreover, a Chinese oil and gas rig producer now provides Russia with about 60 percent of its imported oil rig supplies, indicating that China is becoming a dominant player in this sphere.92 Chinese media recently hailed Yamal as an example of China's construction and engineering prowess and a symbol of its transformation into an Arctic player.93 In return for China stepping into support the project, senior officials from Novatek, the main shareholder of the project, announced that the first LNG shipment would symbolically go to China.94 But a British subsidiary of Malaysia's Petronas purchased the first shipment of Yamal LNG and sold it to France's Engie, which then shipped the cargo to its Boston import facility for American use.95 Western sanctions on Novatek, Russia's largest independent national gas producer and a company with close ties to the Kremlin, made Yamal's pivot to China possible, as sanctions forced Russia to find an alternative source of investment and technology.

The blunt - spoken civil engineer has spent more than a half - century investigating high - profile engineering failures, from the space shuttle Columbia's horrific end to the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil - drilling rig in the Gulf.

The study challenges the estimate by federal officials, based on the amount of oil on the sea surface, that around 5000 barrels (800 cubic metres) of oil per day are pouring into the sea from the site where the BP - operated drilling rig Deepwater Horizon was destroyed by fire last month.

For example, understanding these effects can be essential to figuring out how much oil is needed to keep a gear train from running dry, or how much drilling «mud» is needed to keep an oil rig working smoothly.

A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine identifies strategies for improving the reliability of bolts used in offshore oil and gas drilling rigs, thereby reducing the risk that a bolt failure could cause a spill of oil, drilling fluids, or natural gas into the environment.

In a hearing this morning, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee is set to examine various issues related to offshore oil and gas exploration and to grill executives from BP, Halliburton and Transocean about the fatal and environmentally calamitous destruction of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig.

The numerous technical and operational breakdowns that contributed to the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion and spill from the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico suggest the lack of a suitable approach for managing the inherent risks, uncertainties, and dangers associated with deepwater drilling operations and a failure to learn from previous «near misses.»

This week, he announced that the part of the agency which permits oil and gas drilling and collects royalties will be separated from the part of the agency in charge of inspecting the safety of oil rigs and platforms and enforcing the law.

Using the world's most authoritative database of oil rig accidents, a Norwegian company, Det Norske Veritas, focused on some 15,000 wells drilled off North America and in the North Sea from 1980 to 2006.

As for increased sealife around oil rigs as a good thing (previous comment)-- please note that sea life congregates around outcroppings in the ocean — in the case of oil rigs though, the sea life ends up with dangerously high levels of mercury from mercury contaminated drilling muds.

When the price of gas plummeted in 2008 to below production recovery prices, most drilling rigs switched away from drilling for gas to drilling for oil.

«Greenland has condemned as illegal a protest by Greenpeace activists who scaled an oil rig in a bid to prevent a British company from drilling in Arctic waters off the North Atlantic island.»

With adequate notice, the drill rig safety crews can prepare towing operations to remove the floating chunks of ice, but this year they were overwhelmed and resorted to emergency measures to keep the massive bergs away from the oil and gas machinery.

The most ardent drilling opponents, who contend that exploration of the outer continental shelf puts oceans at risk without producing short - term relief from gasoline prices, said there is still time for the next president and future Congresses to work out a new compromise before oil rigs are erected within sight of the nation's coasts.

The site where we discovered the oil was in an area called South Pass, near Port Eads, the very southernmost point of Louisiana, and some 30 miles north from the underwater oil geyser caused by the destruction of the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig.

If you or a loved one have been injured or fatally wounded from an offshore drilling rig accident, and you believe negligence played a role, it is important that you contact a qualified oil rig accident attorney as soon as possible to discuss your legal right to fair compensation.

Stephen has also represented hundreds of individuals and businesses along the Gulf Coast impacted by the BP oil spill which resulted from the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig.

These claims can arise in the context of anything from a motor vehicle crash, product liability claims, or the safety precautions, policies, and procedures in place at an oil drilling rig.

$ 1.7 Million Verdict against a drilling rig and an oil company when a Jones Act seaman fell from an elevated platform of a semi-submersible drilling rig.

In addition she has handled: • Corporate governance policies including indigenous community relations, social and training programmes; • Company secretarial: drafting board documentation, running board meetings, and incorporating subsidiaries; • Investor relations including the delisting of company from AIM, warrant and option issue; performance bonds, preparation of annual reports; • Government relations; • Supplier contracts, PSC's, JOA's, joint venture agreements, farm out agreements, employment; • Equipment licensing including offshore drilling rigs and an FPSO; • Defending an arbitration claim; • Crisis management when her company's oil rig workers were kidnapped three times.

Prevent a drilling rig from spilling oil into a coastal wildlife ecosystem?

Drill rig operators work in the oil and gas industry where they undertake drilling of petroleum fields and extract petroleum products from earth.