Sentences with phrase «biggest drilling rig»

OSLO (Reuters)- Transocean (RIG.N)(RIGN.S), one of the world's biggest drilling rig operators, has agreed to buy Norwegian competitor Songa Offshore SONG.OL for 9.1 billion crowns ($ 1.1 billion), the latest in a series of transactions reshaping the industry.

Not exact matches

Iron ore miner Rio Tinto is following its big investment in driverless trucks and trains by announcing plans to nearly double its fleet of autonomous drilling rigs.

BP PLC, the world's third - biggest publicly traded energy company — and fourth - biggest public company of any kind — flirted with annihilation this year after a deadly explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig on April 20 and the environmental disaster that spread across the Gulf of Mexico in the four months that followed.

What follows is the thieves preparing and stumbling at fulfilling the plan, including but not limited to the inept Livingston Dell (Eddie Jameson) trying to rig an automatic card shuffler, Yen (Shaobo Qin) and Linus pretending to a rich Chinese national and his big - nosed assistant to get on Bank's right - hand «man» Abigail Sponder's (Ellen Barkin) good side, and Basher Tarr (Don Cheadle) burrowing under Vegas with a drill that was used to create the Chunnel to simulate an earthquake.

This film recounts the events of April 2010, when a drilling rig off the coast of Louisiana exploded, creating the biggest oil - spill in US history.

Shell's approved exploration plan is even bigger, dirtier, and louder than 2012, including the use of two drilling rigs in a concentrated area and a bigger armada of vessels, all posing a threat to wildlife including whales, walruses and seals, as well as air and water pollution discharges.

A bigger problem, though, is if the Yamal blowouts happen to blow out a drill rig and a working gas well - or several of them.