Sentences with phrase «maersk oil platform»

It is redesigning its deepwater oil platforms and onshore shale - gas projects to simplify them, a major cultural change at a firm that has long prided itself more for engineering prowess than for economic discipline.

LOWER PROFILE: Shell's Appomattox oil platform, capable of reaching 175,000 barrels of oil per day, will soon be active in the Gulf of Mexico.

The hull of the Shell deepwater oil platform Appomattox arriving in Ingleside, Texas, in October for final assembly.

In February, Elop issued a memo comparing the company to a person on a burning deep - sea oil platform.

And this is, after all, the company that in 2000 «accidentally» sank the world's largest oil platform at the time just a few months after taking ownership of it.

For example, Transocean alone operates 10 of the 60 offshore oil platforms currently in operation in Brazil.

That can mean doing work in biomechanics, textiles, or marine fields such as naval architects, who design ships and offshore oil platforms.

The incident took place during the construction of an oil platform for French energy company Total's Martin Linge field off Norway.

The Sedco 714 oil platform, operated by Transocean Ltd., stands in the Port of Cromarty Firth in Cromarty, U.K.

More than 100 oil platforms in the Gulf were evacuated, although those platforms will probably come back online much quicker than the onshore refineries.

By Liz Hampton HOUSTON, May 3 (Reuters)-- At BP's massive Thunder Horse oil platform in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, a dog - sized robot called Maggie uses...

By Liz Hampton HOUSTON (Reuters)- At BP's massive Thunder Horse oil platform in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, a dog - sized robot called Maggie uses magnetic tracks to creep along...

At BP's massive Thunder Horse oil platform in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, a dog - sized robot called Maggie uses magnetic tracks to creep along pipes connecting the giant oil facility to the sea floor.

My first purchase was to increase my position in the oil platform company Ensco (ESV).

A recent report also forecasted that nearly 150 oil platforms in the North Sea are scheduled to be decommissioned by 2026, as one in seven barrels there are produced at a loss, and around half of the 22 companies in the area are currently operating with significant deficits.

Offshore oil platforms are seen at the Bouri Oil Field off the coast of Libya August 3, 2015.

I would suspect that an oil platform or other construction does.

Meanwhile, following renewed attacks on oil platforms and gas pipelines in the Niger Delta, the Nigerian Navy, yesterday, commenced modalities to train its officers and ratings in the use of un-manned maritime vessels, UMVs, as well as un-manned aerial vessels, UAVs, to be incorporated soon into its operations.

The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) said yesterday that it will ensure total protection of oil platforms and gas pipelines in the Niger Delta noting that it has observed with dismay the unpatriotic attacks on the nation's economic lifeline in the Niger -LSB-...]

The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) said yesterday that it will ensure total protection of oil platforms and gas pipelines in the Niger Delta noting that it has observed with dismay the unpatriotic attacks on the nation's economic lifeline in the Niger Delta.

Congress, as well as the Minerals and Management Service, the federal agency that regulates drilling in the Gulf, were already separately investigating allegations that BP has failed to keep proper documents about how to perform an emergency shutdown of the Atlantis, another Gulf oil platform and one of the largest in the world.

Massive ocean waves that seem to come from nowhere endanger ships and oil platforms, but now there is a way to see them coming

Osborne's swagger seems a bit subdued as we wind our way through the laboratories and testing pools, past scale models of tankers and oil platforms detailed down to the company logos painted on their sides (no photos allowed).

The research traces its origins to one summer day in 2007, when a worker on a Maersk Oil platform in the Al Shaheen oil field off the coast of Qatar saw a surprising sight: a group of roughly 100 whale sharks feeding near the surface.

That leaves the rest for trillions of microbes to feast on — a petroleum cornucopia that first became available April 20 when the oil platform exploded and the spill started.

A combtooth blenny peeks out from its tiny hiding place, having moved into the empty shell of a barnacle that once grew and attached to an underwater beam of a Gabonese oil platform.

In seven videos made by remotely operated vehicles (one off the California coast, six near oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico), the researchers observed G. bonplandi wriggling the fleshy clubs on the ends of its tentacles in a way that resembles the undulations of a small, swimming animal (see video).

One day, Horsfield's team might be assessing the impact on marine life of a proposed offshore rig; another, they might be decommissioning an oil platform the size of Canary Wharf.

In the end, Fedele said, the production of the rogue wave is simply chance: the rare combination of waves in what turns out to be a bad place for ships or oil platforms.

Based on an analysis of three rogue waves observed at different oil platforms in the North Sea over the course of a decade, the research was scheduled to be reported June 21 in the journal Scientific Reports.

«We saw similar wave behaviors at all three oil platforms,» said Francesco Fedele, a professor in the Georgia Tech School of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

But unlike an oil platform, the floating wind turbine would have to better restrain the sea's pitch, roll and heaving motions.

Petrobras has had its own accidents along the way, including the 2001 explosion and sinking of P - 36, then the world's largest floating oil platform.

Oil platforms over major petroleum reservoirs may house hundreds of staff members who live and work on the rig for weeks or months at a time.

Play recreated and enriched levels based on the original Rainbow Six game like the Embassy Hostage Crisis, an oil platform assault or the infiltration of a rebel camp in Africa.

The new map is called Oil Platform and the 7 new achievements are only obtainable in online or local co-op.

Ensconced in their bubble, the characters are indifferent to the news on their touch screens: a Category 5 hurricane hits Rhode Island; oil platforms are drilling on the site of the former Arctic ice cap.

Wahlberg plays Mike, the chief technician on the Deepwater Horizon, an oil platform more than a half - hour flight from land.

Scotland's offshore oil platforms in the North Sea generate significant wealth for the nation — especially for the Shetland Islands, where oil tanker traffic boosts the local economy.

Looking more like a small oil platform at the beginning of the game, the base can be transformed into a floating City with enough upgrades.

Two oil platforms, named Hilda and Hazel, formerly stood on this field; Chevron Corp. dismantled them in 1996 and production from this field ended.

An offshore oil platform suffered a blowout.

Fracking and acidizing threaten our marine wildlife, recreation, clean air, and water quality and yet they are taking place without proper environmental review from oil platforms in the Santa Barbara Channel, home to a National Park, a Marine Sanctuary, and a network of Marine Protected Areas.

He worked as a diver on offshore oil platforms in the North Sea and the Gulf of Mexico.

He surveyed both at natural reefs and oil platform jackets.

To qualify as a specialty diver, you'll need to make two jumps and dives in the area, and most likely one of those will be at the Eureka Oil Platform, an 8 - minute helicopter ride from land.

The creepy church buried beneath sand dunes, the crumbling lighthouse and the reclaimed oil platforms are stand out moments that are all well designed and are full of those «Huh, something bad happened here» moments.

Protecting an oil platform, destroying a chemical factory, or stopping advancing enemies in their tracks - their goal is nothing less than saving the world, and this requires staying a step ahead of the terrorists by finding out just what they are planning.

The recent surge in working class job simulators (Farm Simulator, Oil Platform Simulator, Stone Quarry Simulator, Street Cleaning Simulator, Euro Truck Driver and all the rest) have made the close ties between work and video games explicit, but it's always been there, hidden in plain sight.

In Thunder Wolves, the player becomes part of a formidable group of pilots who carry out every order with unequalled precision and speed, be it the protection of an oil platform, destroying a chemical factory, or halting an enemy advancement in its tracks.