Sentences with phrase «sea drilling rig»

David also acted for BP in a recent commercial court dispute concerning technical issues pertaining to a North Sea drilling rig.

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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.

His first glimpse of one came in 1999, when he saw a graph of the data on a wave that had struck a drilling rig in the North Sea on New Year's Day in 1995.

Awilco is a simple company; it owns and operates 2 semi submersible drilling rigs in the North Sea.

That is, it owns 2 but operates one as the demand for drilling rigs in the North Sea is currently low or non existent.

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.

But late Monday the company announced that it was pulling the floating drill rig's multiple anchors and moving it off the well because of encroaching sea ice.

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.

Shell managed to drill for about a day before encroaching sea ice forced the company to move its rig out of harm's way.

By Shell's own calculations, its two drilling rigs and large fleet of support vessels will expose 12 species of marine mammals to disruptive levels of noise, including at least 974 belugas from the resident Chukchi and migratory Beaufort Sea populations.

Source of Gas Leak Found, Fire Fighting Ships Arrive Now this really gives you a sense of the extreme conditions in which this drilling is happening: The Guardian reports that Total has said it believes it has found the source of the leak, a gas pocket in a rock formation 4 kilometers below the sea bed, and 1 km above the actual gas reservoir that the rig was tapping.

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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.