Sentences with phrase «from oil rigs»

You're a professional earth scientist: what do you use to date strata brought up from oil rigs?

They're a much different breed from the cowboy - hat wearing rednecks from my oil rig days, though I still hold lots of affection for the latter [I occasionally worked offshore in the Gulf of Mexico during my college days].

Not exact matches

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.

OSLO, April 18 - Offshore oil driller Seadrill plans to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy in late June or early July to catch the rising wave of rig market activity, its chief executive told said on Wednesday.

OSLO, April 18 (Reuters)- Offshore oil driller Seadrill plans to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy in late June or early July to catch the rising wave of rig market activity, its chief executive told said on Wednesday.

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.

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.

What's more, the number of active North American oil rigs fell by two in the week ended June 30, from 758 to 756 rigs, the first such contraction since January, according to the Baker Hughes Rig Count.

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.

The dollar's weakness, however, failed to help global oil prices, which continued to fall in Monday trading following last Friday's data from Baker Hughes (BHI) showed U.S. oil and natural gas producers added 21 rigs over the past week,

In the latest report by Baker Hughes dated April 28, 2017, the oil rig count reached 697, a huge increase from the lows of 316 in May 2016.

From 1,920 active rigs, only 894 were active in the week ending today, and that's getting awfully close to the 2009 low of 876 when oil had a more drastic plunge into the $ 30's.

And in the week ended February 9, the number of active North American oil rigs rose sharply from 765 to 791, the most in nearly three years.

Legend holds that oil rig workers from Louisiana introduced cayenne hot sauce into the region, where it has spread — well, like wildfire.

Maybe it's from a customer who claims they've ordered something that hasn't arrived but you have no record of the sale, an «oceanographer» who needs an item sent to an oil rig, or someone asking about alternative ways to pay.

Commissioner Dominica Whelan refused to allow Esso and its contractors to shift oil - rig workers to a 14 - days - on 14 - days - off roster, from an existing seven - day cycle, saying it was widely now accepted that «the role of fathers is vital in the family».

The mum - of - two from Aberdeenshire only started making videos of her pregnancy as a private thing to be watched by herself and her husband, Lee, 29, an oil rig worker.

Here's a fascinating use of a crowdsourcing technology called Ushahidi, originally developed to track election violence in Kenya: as the Times reports, a group called the Louisiana Bucket Brigade is employing the distributed reporting tool to let local citizens help track the fallout from the rig explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

-LRB-... In a presentation Thursday at the Broome County Office Building, a representative from GasFrac Energy Services Inc. said the firm, which has worked on natural gas and oil rigs in Canada and Texas, has had discussions with gas companies about contracting to tap into the state's portion of the Marcellus.

Two additional experiments used only ensemble displays, showing oil rigs at different distances from the storm's center and either on or between forecast lines.

The blunt - spoken civil engineer has spent more than a half - century investigating high - profile engineering failures, from the space shuttle Columbia's horrific end to the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil - drilling rig in the Gulf.

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.

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.

The oil spill began on 20 April when an uncontrolled release of oil and gas from an underwater well caused an explosion that engulfed the Deepwater Horizon rig, killing 11 crewmen on board.

The results suggest that oil from the new reservoir, called Jack 2, could cost three to four times as much to extract as oil from traditional locations, including rigs on land.

There are also indications that BP and Transocean, the owner of the Deepwater Horizon rig that burned and sank, could have used backup safety gear — a remote acoustic switch that would stanch the flow of oil from a leaking well 5,000 feet underwater — to prevent the massive spill now floating like a slow - motion train wreck toward the Mississippi and Louisiana coastline.

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).

The discovery could help marine workers who have to protect underwater cables and oil rigs from the threat of landslides.

Already storms have caused lightning strikes on the Deepwater Horizon rig pumping oil from the broken well, shutting the rig down, and even the relatively minor Hurricane Alex halted relief efforts, preventing the skimming or burning of roughly 60,000 barrels of oil over three days.

The IG report describes «a culture of ethical failure» in which staffers accepted vacations and other pricey gifts from oil companies, rigged contracts, did drugs with one another and had sex with industry reps.

For example, understanding these effects can be essential to figuring out how much oil is needed to keep a gear train from running dry, or how much drilling «mud» is needed to keep an oil rig working smoothly.

The likely drivers of Russia's new nationalism range from internal political tensions to arrests of Greenpeace activists after they scaled a Russian oil rig in 2013, the center said.

A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine identifies strategies for improving the reliability of bolts used in offshore oil and gas drilling rigs, thereby reducing the risk that a bolt failure could cause a spill of oil, drilling fluids, or natural gas into the environment.

Additionally, each trial included the text, «Your task is to decide which oil rig will receive the most damage from the hurricane.»

Petroleum is made from a jelly - like precipitate found on oil rigs and wells.

If you've got greasy hair, fear not: there are solutions to keeping your strands from acting like a broken oil - rig.

Because my face resembles something of an oil rig, all these products are matte and they definitely all live up the hype from that Chanel woman.

The man claimed to be an oil rig worker from the UK and showed his interest in the woman by sending her...

The scene in question occurs early in Man of Steel, when Clark Kent saves stranded workers from a burning oil rig.

It is here that, in defiance from the dour Calvinist body politic in which she lives that Bess McNeill (Emily Watson, brilliant), a detached ingénue, begins to burgeon as her love for Jan Nyman (Stellan Skarsgård, superb), a Swedish oil - rig worker and athiest, manifests into marriage.

The premise is simple: Workers on an oil rig in the wilderness region of Alaska crash in their airplane transport in an area many miles away from the nearest semblance of human civilization.

Furiosa is in a position of power though, as the driver for the rig that transports precious gasoline, from a lone oil refinery, to the Citadel.

She marries oil rig worker Jan (Stellan Skarsgard) and is unable to bear separation from him when he leaves for work.

From oil drilling rigs to warehouses, restaurants, and grocery stores, we create anything and everything!

Riding all night, the bus half empty, toward the interior, among refineries, trellised and turreted illusory cities, the crass, the indispensable wastefulness of oil rigs offshore, of homunculi swigging at the gut of a continent: the trailers, the semis, the vans, the bumper stickers, slogans in day - glo invoking the name of Jesus, who knows what it means: the air waves, the brand name, the backyard Barbie - doll barbecue, graffiti in video, the burblings, the dirges: heart like a rock, I said Kathy I'm lost, the scheme is a mess, we've left Oklahoma, its cattle, sere groves of pecan trees interspersing the horizonless belch and glare, the alluvium of the auto junkyards, we're in Kansas now, we've turned off the freeway, we're meandering, as again night falls, among farmsteads, the little towns with the name of a girl on the watertower, the bandstand in the park at the center, the churches alight from within, perpendicular...

In the wake of Benchley's novel, we quickly got such memorable chum as Megalodon (oil rig explosion unleashes giant shark), Carcharodan (prehistoric shark freed when iceberg melts), Extinct (killer shark preys on boys in Mississippi River) and Meg (really big pregnant shark bubbles up from Marianas Trench and eats dumb tourists.)

During 2008 the company benefited from high spot prices for oil and natural gas as well as a contraction in rig count within the GOM.

Seaventures is a Dive Resort made from a converted oil rig offering the perfect location for non-stop diving.

There is of course the alternative option of staying on the Seaventures Dive Platform (modified oil rig) located about 500m from Mabul island.

It is a former oil rig located 500 m offshore from Mabul and has been transformed in a diving resort.