Sentences with phrase «sea oil rig»

Mental health outcomes and predictors of chronic disorders after the North Sea oil rig disaster: 27 - year longitudinal follow - up study

North Sea Oil Rig Scam Dating A scam involving online dating sites.

DEEP - sea oil rigs are havens for wildlife, according to a survey of porpoises visiting a rig in the North Sea.

A six - month stint working on North Sea oil rigs paid for his move south to London in early 1982.

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Here's hoping that when the tech bubble inevitably bursts, the site will make another one comparing real - estate prices to the crummiest places on the planet, like perhaps this decrepit oil rig in the middle of the sea.

CNBC's Eunice Yoon travels to an oil rig in the disputed waters of the South China Sea and gets caught in a chase by Chinese coast guards.

Ann Cairns started her career in the North Sea, designing and testing pipelines for oil rigs.

Before it was a hotel, this was an abandoned oil rig in the Celebes Sea (between Borneo, the Philippines, and Indonesia).

I remember the reality of work - away fathers during the 1980s, whether it was tradesmen to Europe or, more commonly in my part of the world, oil workers out to the North Sea rigs or to the Middle East.

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.

By Dr Sam Illingworth, University of Manchester Today marks the end of the August flying campaign for MAMM, a whilst there will be a transit back to the UK tomorrow (as well as hopefully some methane measurements over the off shore oil rigs in the North Sea), today's flights are the last to be making -LSB-...]

Nautilus's plan is to follow the technological path that oil rigs have already blazed into the deep sea.

In the late 1980s, 30 - meter - thick sea walls were built to stop erosion and protect oil rigs on land.

Bess (Emily Watson), a sweet - faced and trusting girl, is «not quite right in the head,» and her close - knit community is not pleased by her decision to marry Jan (Stellan Skarsgard), who works on one of the big oil rigs in the North Sea.

The whale tale forms the center of the story but, for me, it was the bit players that stole the show - the rays wallowing in the warm water under the pier, the sun fish snoozling close to the legs of the oil rig, the green sea turtles «carrying their homes along with them like aquatic RVs» and the herd of dolphins vying with each other to perform the most dare - devilish tricks (I thought the collective noun for dolphins was pod, but Lynne refers to them as a herd, and I'm not the landlubber to question her!)

My bet here is that there is some recovery in oil prices or that at the very least there is some recovery in day rates for rigs in the North Sea.

Before entering the sea urchin business, Robinson had worked for years as a deep - sea diver for an offshore oil rig in the North Sea near the English Channsea urchin business, Robinson had worked for years as a deep - sea diver for an offshore oil rig in the North Sea near the English Channsea diver for an offshore oil rig in the North Sea near the English ChannSea near the English Channel.

He mainly pointed his camera at ecosystems and human communities in harm's way, but sometimes focused on the fossil fuel industry — most notably in capturing the first images of Shell's (ultimately ill - fated) Arctic oil rig Kulluk as it prepared to drill an exploratory oil well in the Beaufort Sea in 2012.

Oil Spill Cleanup on the High Seas How quickly crews can react, how big a spill is (or, in the case of the Gulf incident, an underground leak from an an exploration oil rig, as opposed to a production rig or boat), and weather conditions all have a lot to do with the type of remediation or containment that will be chosOil Spill Cleanup on the High Seas How quickly crews can react, how big a spill is (or, in the case of the Gulf incident, an underground leak from an an exploration oil rig, as opposed to a production rig or boat), and weather conditions all have a lot to do with the type of remediation or containment that will be chosoil rig, as opposed to a production rig or boat), and weather conditions all have a lot to do with the type of remediation or containment that will be chosen.

The deep - sea exploitation of oil and gas has been going on for a few decades now, and we've seen what can happen when things go wrong a few years ago in the Gulf of Mexico with the massive oil spill that took place after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig...

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.

a great irony I have observed while working at sea since 1983 in the global offshore oil & gas industry is the explosion of marine life that occurs in and around offshore drilling rigs.

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.

It and other oil - producing nations have, among other things, claimed a need for adaptation funding — normally reserved for the poor nations that have done little to cause climate change but are bearing the brunt of weather disasters and other problems — because of rising sea levels that threaten offshore oil rigs.

The Deepwater Horizon rig that exploded and sank has spilled millions of gallons of oil into the ecologically rich waters in the Gulf of Mexico and continues to gush 210,000 gallons of oil into the sea every day.

Last year Dr Nisbet's team used isotopic analysis and weather models to trace a cloud of methane over the North Sea not to one of its many oil rigs but to cows in the county of Lincolnshire.

Both Scotland's study of North Sea oil exploration and development know - how and its adaptation of oil rig platform designs was described by Michael Kanellos in this space last year.

A deep water rig called «Horizon» went down, no way to seal off the pipe has been found, so South Louisianan's all wait for to see just what the landfall of this spill will be... and it's oil, creepin» in the sea...»

And against the backdrop of all of this is the fact that man - caused global climate change is making it all possible — now that there's less ice in the Arctic, ships (and oil rigs) can more safely navigate the seas.

For starters, the laws governing injury compensation for workers injured on offshore gas platforms, oil rigs, cargo vessels and other jobs on the open sea are different than standard workers» compensation laws.

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The two companies operate in the oil and gas sector: Norscot provides consultancy, drilling and rig management services to operators in the North Sea, Russia, Far East and India and had contracted their specialist services to Essar.

We represent seamen injured or taken ill aboard fishing vessels, fish processors, crab boats, tug boats, ships, ferry boats, derricks, barges, dredges, and all other types of vessels, including aircrafts at sea and offshore oil rigs.