Sentences with phrase «for oil rig»

Recovered # 750,000.00 for an oil rig worker who was injured on an oil rig in Africa.

Dating site for oil rig workers.

Images for oil rig dating.

If test drilling revealed recoverable oil reserves, she says that a company would have to plunk down another $ 2 billion for an oil rig.

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

The worldwide market for a version of the system for oil rigs has been estimated at 10 000 units.

Not exact matches

Graduates go on to be helicopter pilots for a variety of programs including emergency medical service programs, charter tours or bringing workers to offshore oil and gas rigs.

Rig supervisors are responsible for overseeing 10 to 20 people on several crews, who operate oil or gas drilling rigs around the clock.

U.S. drillers added five oil rigs looking for new production in the week to April 27, according to energy services firm Baker Hughes, bringing the total count to a March 2015 high of 825.

U.S. drillers added five oil rigs drilling for new production in the week ending April 20, bringing the total count to 820, the highest since March, 2015, according to General Electric's Baker Hughes energy services firm.

Prosecutors from Campos, a city near Rio de Janeiro, filed suit last Wednesday against Chevron and Transocean (RIG) for gross negligence in connection with the oil spill.

The tally of oil rigs rose in recent weeks, with oil prices near $ 50 per barrel and demand for drilling equipment on the rise.

Last week, the oil rig count fell for the first time in four months, by two to 441.

In a note on Friday, Morgan Stanley analysts wrote that the recent gain in the US oil - rig count is one reason why they are losing conviction in their call for a re-balancing of the market by mid-2017.

Seadrill was forced to seek bankruptcy court protection from creditors after a sharp drop in oil prices in 2014 cut oil firms» appetite for exploration, pushing rates for rigs down and leaving many idle.

Publicly traded oil companies have lost billions in market value, and both public and private firms are moving aggressively to cut capital spending budgets for 2015 — laying off thousands of workers and shutting down hundreds of rigs.

Oil companies have since returned to the market, hiring rigs to explore for offshore oil and gas deposits after crude prices have traded above $ 60 a barrel since NovembOil companies have since returned to the market, hiring rigs to explore for offshore oil and gas deposits after crude prices have traded above $ 60 a barrel since Novemboil and gas deposits after crude prices have traded above $ 60 a barrel since November.

U.S. energy companies added 12 oil rigs drilling for new production last week, taking the total to 759, General Electric Baker Hughes energy services firm said on Friday.

The count of active oil rigs in the US for the fourth straight week last week and is more than 80 % higher than the low reached in May 2016.

Likewise, technicians working in remote locations — on an oil rig, say, or in an aircraft — can call on distant experts for help with repairs.

For example, crews needing to repair a complex mud pump on an oil rig could simply activate step - by - step visual instructions right in front of their eyes, hands - free, and in real time.

Reuters reports that some rigs in the Orinoco Belt, where PDVSA produces heavy oil, are only operating «intermittently for lack of crews.»

Beyond the actual gas project and LNG sales, China's state - run shipping conglomerate COSCO has also secured a 50 percent stake in the four LNG shipping carriers serving Yamal.90 Chinese engineers and workers have been deployed to the Yamal Peninsula to help construct surrounding infrastructure, which includes a Chinese - produced polar drilling rig.91 Moreover, a Chinese oil and gas rig producer now provides Russia with about 60 percent of its imported oil rig supplies, indicating that China is becoming a dominant player in this sphere.92 Chinese media recently hailed Yamal as an example of China's construction and engineering prowess and a symbol of its transformation into an Arctic player.93 In return for China stepping into support the project, senior officials from Novatek, the main shareholder of the project, announced that the first LNG shipment would symbolically go to China.94 But a British subsidiary of Malaysia's Petronas purchased the first shipment of Yamal LNG and sold it to France's Engie, which then shipped the cargo to its Boston import facility for American use.95 Western sanctions on Novatek, Russia's largest independent national gas producer and a company with close ties to the Kremlin, made Yamal's pivot to China possible, as sanctions forced Russia to find an alternative source of investment and technology.

The US oil - rig count plateaued near the highest level in three years and showed signs of declining in late March (to 797), though it still stood 50 rigs above the year - end 2017 total.2 This contributed to expectations for a further increase in American crude production, which has topped 10 mb / d each week since early February, when WTI prices began to recede from their intra-quarterly high of US$ 66.14 a barrel.3 The amount of crude in US storage occasionally exceeded weekly estimates given the higher domestic output and fluctuating net import figures, reigniting fears that US production may thwart OPEC's efforts to clear global oversupply.

After falling for four consecutive months, support activities for mining and oil and gas extraction rose 9.9 % in April, as both rigging and drilling services advanced.

«We have had our eye on looking for the best opportunity for us to get into LNG and Asia - Pacific — I see those as pretty closely linked — and that's what led us to thinking about Santos,» says US - born Cook, a one - time trainee on oil rigs in Michigan whose track record at Shell has earned her the moniker of the «first lady» of oil and gas.

Lower oil prices have lead to decreased rig counts and less need for drilling materials.

Oil getting hit for 2 % as US Producers add more rigs and Iran ramps exports, while Natty Gas drops 1.5 %, adding to last week's losses.

S51 Singapore Exchange — April 18, 2016 A subsidiary of the Singaporean marine and offshore engineering company has been implicated in a bribery scandal, to win the orders for deep - water rigs worth US$ 800 million, involving the Brazilian state - owned shipbuilder Sete Brasil and the state - owned oil company Petrobras.

Crude oil prices are pulling back after a rise in the rig count even though it's making up for lost time after the big freeze down south.

Kuwait Oil Co. will soon offer contracts for offshore rigs and support services to drill its first undersea wells as the Persian Gulf nation tries to boost crude output to Continue Reading

The oil rig count, as reported by Baker Hughes, has advanced for the third consecutive week, after 29 straight weeks of declines.

When you pay for a high - priced oil rig it gets put to use.

«The fact that the oil price is low and the oil rigs aren't busy is very helpful for us.»

The Gulf of Mexico may be open for business and eager to attract tourists, but it's still unclear whether or not marine and coastal ecosystems there are healthy two years after BP's offshore drilling rig exploded 40 miles off the Louisiana coast, eventually releasing 205.8 million gallons of oil into the water column.

For instance, such findings will play into decisions about the location, timing and technology of marine development — including cruise and cargo ship traffic, oil and gas rigs and offshore wind farms (which create high levels of noise during construction and moderate levels when operational).

Now, researchers have come up with a way to 3D print tough and flexible stainless steel, an advance that could lead to faster and cheaper ways to make everything from rocket engines to parts for nuclear reactors and oil rigs.

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-...]

The developers foresee uses in oil rigs and for ship repair.

The principles of metamaterials could be extended to control water waves (protecting oil rigs from sudden storms, for instance) and sound waves (creating perfectly quiet, private spots in the middle of a noisy office).

Geomaticians are equally likely to be found working for offshore companies positioning oil rigs and monitoring pipelines across oceans as they are to be found mapping utilities for your local council.

Waves so unexpected they leave no time for escape, so powerful they can take out even supertankers and oil rigs.

Production of conventional crude oil — the black liquid stuff that rigs pump out of the ground — probably topped out for good in 2006, at about 70 million barrels a day.

«Today, cognitive undersea acoustics is a key wireless communication technology that can be used for a wide range of military, commercial, and scientific applications, including tactical surveillance, offshore exploration, monitoring of subsea machinery such as oil - rigs and pipelines, disaster prevention as well as the study of marine life,» said Stella N. Batalama, Ph.D., principal investigator and dean of FAU's College of Engineering and Computer Science, who is collaborating with Dimitris Pados, Ph.D., co-principal investigator, professor in FAU's Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and I - SENSE Fellow.

For example, the use of spatial zoning to reduce the overlap of fisheries, oil rigs and shipping lanes with areas of the ocean used by penguins; the use of appropriate fishing methods to reduce the accidental bycatch of penguins and other species; and, the use of ecologically based fisheries harvesting rules to limit the allowable catches taken by fishermen, particularly where they target species that are also food for penguins.&raqFor example, the use of spatial zoning to reduce the overlap of fisheries, oil rigs and shipping lanes with areas of the ocean used by penguins; the use of appropriate fishing methods to reduce the accidental bycatch of penguins and other species; and, the use of ecologically based fisheries harvesting rules to limit the allowable catches taken by fishermen, particularly where they target species that are also food for penguins.&raqfor penguins.»

Seasteaders could, for instance, buy a used oil rig that can operate in 3,000 - to 6,000 - foot - deep water for about $ 100 million.

In 2000, the US Department of the Interior's Minerals Management Service (MMS) published a report warning that there were several difficulties connected with deep - water well control, that experience in this area was «limited» and with many rigs having very high oil production rates, a blowout could be «a potential show - stopper» for deep - water drilling in general.

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

Whether that be the 11 workers killed in the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion, the more than 70 cleaners sickened by the aftermath, or the thousands of Nigerians killed directly or indirectly by our unquenchable thirst for petroleum.

While pundits and regulators issue encomiums to safety, the most noticeable shifts in the «post BP» oil industry are a fat discount on rental rates for offshore platforms no longer needed in the Gulf and the exodus of idled rigs heading to other waters.