Sentences with phrase «drill ship»
A drill ship is a special type of ship that is designed to drill into the seabed for various purposes, such as exploring and extracting oil and gas reserves. It has a large drill on board to dig deep into the ocean floor and collect samples or extract resources. Full definition
After a major overhaul, one of the world's two major scientific deep - sea drilling ships is back at sea.
ldeo.columbia.edu
An oil drilling ship sank in the port of Corpus Christi, blocking the ship channel.
My technical knowledge and skills have taken me through commissioning projects ranging from drill ships, jack ups and semi tender barges.
Early Sunday morning, Shell's Noble Discoverer drill ship sank a bit into the Burger Prospect, about 70 miles off the Alaska coast, the beginning of a 1,400 - foot pilot hole that will form the basis for a mile - deep exploration well.
If you fire up the game and head to Manta Maria, you'll get to see an in - game representation of the real - life Chikyuu (a Japanese scientific drilling ship) in the waters.
When successful, this will open a whole new avenue to investigating the ocean floor that complements traditional approaches using very large drill ships such as the JOIDES Resolution.
He is an engineer on an oil drilling ship so he is gone for several weeks at a time making our marriage long distance for half of the year.
The first scene is an action sequence of Godzilla getting trapped in the South Pole during a battle with the Gotengo, a massive drill ship later piloted by Douglas Gordon, a man who looks and dresses a lot like Joseph Stalin, and is played by MMA fighter Don Frye.
Apparently Shell's Arctic drilling ships aren't nearly clean enough to meet EPA standards for air pollution, so rather than using cleaner ships Shell has asked the EPA to bend the rules.
Researchers sifted through 30,000 years of dust and ocean bottom muck retrieved with ocean drilling ships.
Responsible for all administrative support duties for the Discoverer Deep Seas / Discoverer Americas drill ships
«The U.S. Coast Guard and Royal Dutch Shell were fighting 70 mile - per - hour winds and 40 - foot swells as they tried to assess damage to a floating oil drilling ship that ran aground on a remote Alaskan island.»
The DeepBIOS are stored at very low temperatures -LRB--80 ℃ and -160 ℃) right from the time of their collection onboard a scientific drill ship.
The drill ship, owned by Paragon Offshore, could delay reopening of the port.
Incorrect, the drill ship did not sink, it broke loose from its moorings and is currently beached on one side of the channel, not blocking anything.
«Arrest Nana Addo and prosecute him if it's not just propaganda you are doing with the drill ship saga,» John Boadu said, insisting that «Asiedu Nketiah» s misguided and erroneous reference to Nana Akufo - Addo's alleged incompetence is borne out of the usual ignorance and or deliberate attempts to mislead the public,» he said.
Yet Akufo - Addo's central role in the Drill Ship Saga, so - called, remains shrouded in the convoluted jargon of partisan politics.
A former Deputy Minister of Energy KT Hammond, has sued the government for directing the Economic and Organised Crime Unit (EOCO) to investigate him over the drill ship saga.
The report also directed the Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO) to also investigate K.T. Hammond, a former Deputy Energy Minister on how he disbursed US$ 900,000 which was left after the sale of the drill ship.
The drill ship, Discoverer 511, belonging to the Ghana National Petroleum Commission (GNPC) was sold to defray a 19.5 million dollar judgment debt owed Societe - General Bank in 2001.
The Minister of Communications, Dr. Edward Omane Boamah has lashed out at former Attorney Generall and current flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo - Addo for failing to defend the country over the drill ship saga a decade ago.
The drill ship, Discoverer 511, belonging to the Ghana National Petroleum Commission (GNPC) was sold to defray a 19.5 million...
Speaking at the Meet the Press session in Accra on Monday, Dr. Omane Boamah accused Akufo - Addo of not defending the state hence the sale of the drill ship.
When Kuffour finally lied his way into power, Akufo addo protested against him, yet he offered him a position in his government only for him to connive with BAMBA & K. T Hammond to sell off our DRILL ship
The General Secretary of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia has said they would arrest Ghana's former Deputy Energy Minister, K.T. Hammond for the role he played in the sale of Ghana's drill ship.
The Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO) has been directed by the government to investigate K.T. Hammond, a former Deputy Energy Minister under the erstwhile Kufuor administration, over circumstances surrounding the sale of Ghana's drill ship.
On an ever - shifting ice pack, only the strongest reinforced rigs or drill ships can survive, and should a spill occur, cleanup would be almost impossible.
The 618 - foot Glomar Explorer, a former CIA vessel built during the Nixon administration to recover a Soviet nuclear submarine that sank deep in the Pacific, was converted into a deepwater - drill ship.
After being tossed about and damaged by the tsunami that devastated northeastern Japan on March 11, Japan's drilling ship the Chikyu has been given an especially fitting assignment: to drill into the fault zone and take temperature measurements near the epicentre of the magnitude - 9.0 Tohoku earthquake that caused the tsunami.
Asahiko Taira, a JAMSTEC executive director, says that with their high fixed costs, «reductions will come out of pure research - related money,» though they will try to minimize the impact on the drill ship Chikyu, Japan's contribution to the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program.
«You build up too much free gas, and then you have an overpressured column,» says Gerald Dickens, a marine geochemist at Rice University who went to Hydrate Ridge on a drill ship in 2002.
Two years ago the drill ship Joides Resolution went back to the same waters off Peru where Parkes's first samples had been taken.
Geochemists on the drill ship, on the expedition led by Suess, had cut slices from several drill cores with sterile knives, capped them, flushed them with nitrogen to banish all oxygen, sealed them in cans, and sent them to Oban.
By the end of next week, BP is hoping to use the hoses and multi — valve manifold connector that it had deployed for the failed «top kill» operation to take oil and gas from the Deepwater Horizon's idle blowout preventer through a separate riser to the Q4000 multipurpose floating rig on the surface not far from the drill ship, Wells said.
At this time the LMRP cap's riser pipe is emptying directly into a drill ship at the surface.
On an ever shifting ice pack, only the strongest reinforced rigs or drill ships can survive, and should a spill occur, cleanup would be almost impossible.
As part of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, funded primarily by Japan and the United States, seismologists plan to use the drilling ship Chikyu to bore into the Nankai Trough, a subduction zone paralleling the southern Japanese coastline.
This is in addition to the 700m of water between the drilling ship, the Joides Resolution (JR), and the seabed.
Or, if you prefer a more aggressive approach, you can take the Mechanic and her drill ship into battle and punish your opponent for building on cliffs.
They are trying to prevent a drilling ship commissioned by Chevron from reaching its destination.
Employees of crew boats, barges, drill ships, fishing boats, dredges, and even cruise ships are eligible for compensation under the Jones Act.
Whether you work on a jack - up rig, barge, drill ship, crew boat or other maritime vessel, there are no shortage of dangers to watch out for.
Offshore Injury / Oil Rig Injuries: Injuries that occur at sea while working on an oil rig, oil drilling ship, semi-submersible, crew boat, or oil supply ship are protected by the Jones Act.