Sentences with phrase «drilling platform»

The structure is somewhat similar in concept to floating oil drilling platforms.

Most drilling platforms are too expensive for publicly funded scientific studies, but they are common equipment in the petroleum industry.

An oil rig electrician work offshore on drilling platforms performing electrical repairs and maintenance duties.

Due to the 2010 explosion and fire on the BP Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling platform, people and companies dependent on gulf coast businesses are experiencing serious financial challenges.

Workers change a drill bit at a geothermal drilling platform in northern Iceland.

Given what's happened since the Deepwater Horizon drill platform exploded on 20 April, the claim that things couldn't get worse in the Gulf of Mexico seems pretty dicey.

The majority of drilling platforms destroyed during the» 04 - ’05 hurricane seasons have yet to be replaced.

IT IS just over a year since the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform exploded, killing 11 workers and releasing 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico — and we still don't how much havoc has been caused.

US - based Chevron (CVX) was fined 50 million reals ($ 28 million) by Brazil's federal government earlier this month for leaking around 2,400 to 3,000 barrels from one of its offshore drilling platforms located 75 - miles off the coast of Brazil's iconic beaches in Rio de Janeiro.

America within a few years could be extracting oil from federal waters in the Arctic Ocean, but it won't be from a remote drilling platform.

That attempt ended when the stormy waters of the Chukchi Sea crippled its Kulluk drilling platform, forcing the company to pull up stakes.

The creative folks at Morris Architects looked at an abandoned oil - drilling platform positioned miles offshore in the Gulf of Mexico and imagined an Oil Rig Resort.

These kinds of estimates are of great importance for safety assessments for structures and buildings that need to hold up well for a very long time, or for structures where severe weather could pose a security risk, such as drilling platforms or nuclear power plants.

The researchers say that such a device could be used to protect isolated spots in the ocean — like drilling platforms or low - lying islands — or coastal regions vulnerable to tsunamis.

A refurbished oil - drilling platform displacing 46,000 tons of water would serve as both the anchor station for the space elevator and a platform for a laser to propel the climbers.

Other drilling platforms stand above the sea surface on legs that are rooted in the seafloor.

An aerial perspective is the privilege of oil company executives as they skim the canopy by helicopter, seeking out new drilling platforms in the ugly forest.

The white speck on the lake is the sediment - core drilling platform.

In April 2014, Russia's Arctic oil drilling platform Prirazlomnaya, pictured here, loaded a tanker with the world's first major shipment of oil from above the Arctic Circle: 490,000 gallons from the Prirazlomnoye field in the Barents Sea, 38 miles off Russia's northwestern coast.

The scientists then applied the equation to ancient corals from the mid-Holocene, which they later collected using a small, portable drilling platform at a site about 2 kilometers away from the modern coral site.

A consortium of oil companies (including Shell) has plans for more drilling platforms.

The efforts of Greenpeace to halt the drilling for oil, off of the Arctic coast of Greenland, suffered a double setback yesterday, when its protesters were evicted from the Cairn Energy drilling platform - and then the oil company slapped a lawsuit on Greenpeace, through the Dutch authorities.

The set design in Outland is one of realism, and in that scene, we really get a good look at what is essentially an oil - drilling platform in space.

WWF and other organizations campaigned to stop an offshore oil drilling platform from being built in that critically endangered population's habitat.

But they design all kinds of vessels, from canoes to offshore drilling platforms.

Though the morale of the environmental movement was far from upbeat in 2010 — remember, COP15 had just ended disappointingly, an energy bill had failed to gain ground in Congress, and the Deep Water Horizon drilling platform had begun leaking oil into the Gulf of Mexico — there was some guarded optimism.

The production at the Tiputini C well site is the first of approximately 276 planned wells, ten drilling platforms, and multiple related pipelines and production facilities.

Exxon showed us pictures of hordes of fish swimming around their offshore drilling platforms.

When I was involved in the investigation into the Piper Alpha disaster, when an explosion destroyed an Occidental Petroleum oil - drilling platform in the North Sea, killing 167 men in 1988.

The team of scientists living on board the drilling platform is now investigating the fractures and veins of minerals that precipitated out of hot solutions in the wake of the impact.

«We're feeling pretty good,» said co — chief scientist Sean Gulick in an interview from the deck of a drilling platform 30 kilometers offshore in the Gulf of Mexico.

Morgan, who just arrived on the drilling platform over the weekend, says the mission is the culmination of years of effort that began with her first proposal to IODP in 1998.

Now, Graham and colleagues are waiting to see whether the species becomes a permanent resident, perhaps encouraged by declining coastal water quality and a growing thicket of offshore oil drilling platforms, which may provide the perfect hard substrate for a bottom - dwelling life stage.

Drilling platforms are built to withstand even waves that occur once in 100 years, and none has ever been reported toppled.

For example, Timothy Collett of the U.S. Geological Survey in Denver proposed to save the cost of pipelines by liquefying the gas on ships or drilling platforms.

At 6:20 a.m. Jan. 28, half a dozen people in sterile white suits gathered at the drill platform, awaiting the first sample of Lake Whillans water.

This month, a drilling platform will rise in the Gulf of Mexico, but it won't be aiming for oil.

Additional sensors in the pipe running from the sea floor to the drilling platform were designed to activate the rams if pipe and platform ever separated.

The BOP beneath Deepwater Horizon had a number of mechanisms to activate both sets of rams, including a manual emergency shut - off on the drilling platform 1500 metres above the sea floor.

Technology once relegated to off - grid powerfor remote telecommunications, offshore oil - drilling platforms and rural infrastructureis now feeding some schools, churches, wholesale warehouse stores and national park structures.

«If the pressure was too great and the right precautions not taken, the well could have blown and even set the drill platform on fire,» Bueno recalls.

From June 2010 through June 2013 there were four mass strandings of dead dolphins on Gulf coast beaches stretching from the Texas — Louisiana border into Florida — three after the beginning of the disaster on the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform that saw BP's Macondo well blow out.

This month, from a drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico, scientists will try to sink a diamond - tipped bit into the heart of Chicxulub crater — the buried remnant of the asteroid impact 66 million years ago that killed off the dinosaurs and most other life on Earth.

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This volume addresses the potential for combining large - scale marine aquaculture of macroalgae, molluscs, crustaceans, and finfish, with offshore structures, primarily those associated with energy production, such as wind turbines and oil - drilling platforms.

The current operator of the drilling platform, along with the other three platforms on the Dos Cuadras field, is the private firm DCOR LLC, of Ventura, California.

Drilling platform in the Gray Whale habitat area off the Sakhalin coast in the Russian Federation.