Sentences with phrase «offshore drill rig»

Both the scale and cost of operations are epic — renting an offshore drill rig costs $ 500,000 or more a day — and the technological challenges are harrowing.

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.

The images of smoke and flame billowing from an offshore drilling rig were hauntingly familiar.

SYNOPSIS: A story set on the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, which exploded during April 2010 and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history.

The film chronicles the disaster that took place on the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon in 2010, and also stars Kurt Russell, John Malkovich, Dylan O'Brien and Kate Hudson.

Directed by Peter Berg, the film is a dramatization of the 2010 disaster in which the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon explodes, thus creating the worst oil spill in U.S. history.

a great irony I have observed while working at sea since 1983 in the global offshore oil & gas industry is the explosion of marine life that occurs in and around offshore drilling rigs.

You are certainly right that offshore drilling rigs in the Arctic Ocean will be extremely difficult and costly.

Our name is a rejection of the system that made BP's offshore drilling rig the Deepwater Horizon a reality.

The site where we discovered the oil was in an area called South Pass, near Port Eads, the very southernmost point of Louisiana, and some 30 miles north from the underwater oil geyser caused by the destruction of the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig.

If you or a loved one have been injured or fatally wounded from an offshore drilling rig accident, and you believe negligence played a role, it is important that you contact a qualified oil rig accident attorney as soon as possible to discuss your legal right to fair compensation.

In addition she has handled: • Corporate governance policies including indigenous community relations, social and training programmes; • Company secretarial: drafting board documentation, running board meetings, and incorporating subsidiaries; • Investor relations including the delisting of company from AIM, warrant and option issue; performance bonds, preparation of annual reports; • Government relations; • Supplier contracts, PSC's, JOA's, joint venture agreements, farm out agreements, employment; • Equipment licensing including offshore drilling rigs and an FPSO; • Defending an arbitration claim; • Crisis management when her company's oil rig workers were kidnapped three times.

Floormen operate on offshore drilling rigs and are also known as roughnecks.

Not exact matches

That said, slumping global rig activity, especially in offshore drilling where NOW has a heavy customer concentration, more than overcame the boost the company received from acquisitions.

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

A U.S. Senate vote on Doney's nomination had been blocked for more than a year by Senator David Vitter (R - LA), who was unhappy with the Obama Administration's decision to impose a moratorium on offshore drilling in the wake of the April 2010 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico.

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.

The Obama administration has issued new rules governing offshore drilling, six years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster killed 11 rig workers and spewed millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.

We get acclimated with a few of the hundreds of men and women working aboard the titular vessel, an offshore oil drilling rig.

The segment consists of floaters, jack - ups and other rigs used in support of offshore drilling activities and offshore support services on a worldwide basis.

So while I love the bargain approach to buying ships below scrap value, drilling rigs when it was unprofitable to drill offshore, and pipelines when no one else wanted them, I wouldn't be excited about owning them permanently.

In a hearing this morning, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee is set to examine various issues related to offshore oil and gas exploration and to grill executives from BP, Halliburton and Transocean about the fatal and environmentally calamitous destruction of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig.

The Natural Resources Defense Council has issued a statement concluding that recent events — most notably the grounding of a Shell Oil drilling rig in Alaska — show the oil industry is not ready to safely, cleanly drill offshore in the Arctic.

However, the Trump administration is now planning to expand offshore drilling, putting the Atlantic, Pacific, Gulf of Mexico, and Arctic at risk of new oil rigs.

Oil rigs being forced to drill offshore instead.

The Republican platform slated for approval at the party's convention includes expanded offshore oil - and - gas development, opening Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to drilling rigs and thwarting Environmental Protection Agency climate change regulations.

Notable recent matters include acting as lead counsel to offshore drilling contractor Ocean Rig in its $ 3.7 bn financial restructuring, advising CVC Capital in its $ 1.5 bn leveraged acquisition of Żabka Polska from Mid Europa Partners (the largest private equity exit in Poland) and working with InfraCapital on the purchase of # 700m of rolling stock for West Midlands Trains.

This includes conventional watercraft such as ships, tugs, barges, jack - up and semi submersible drilling rigs, and other mobile offshore drilling units.

These occupations include offshore workers on drilling rigs, production platforms, workers who work on barges and workers who are traveling between land locations in connection with their work.

Following the April 20 explosion off the coast of Louisiana that killed several oil rig workers, families of the deceased and some of the workers who survived the accident have filed wrongful death or personal injury lawsuits against companies involved in the offshore drilling operation.

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

CAREER OBJECTIVE: Looking for the position of oil rig electrician in a company where previous offshore experience working onboard drilling installations is required.

In the larger business context, when two or three companies work together on large projects — such as in operating offshore oil drilling rigs or creating new pharmaceuticals — we see indemnification agreements all the time.

Roughnecks work on offshore oil rigs and perform activities such as setting up and maintaining oil rigs, preparing the area for drilling operations, assembling pipes, driving trucks, loading and unloading various items, and cleaning the area when drilling operations are complete.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE BAE Systems, Jacksonville • FL 2008 — Present Superintendent Ship Fitter Provide construction of complete seaworthy vessels and perform domestic and international fabrication and construction for dry cargo, petroleum carriers, tugs and offshore vessels and equipment for all commercial vessels for customers requiring dredge equipment, research vessels, tugs and barges, cruise ships, offshore rigs and drilling and support vessels, tankers, and containerships.