Sentences with phrase «offshore drilling platforms»

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

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

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.

Under the regulations, monitoring of well safety would shift from being located on - site — at the offshore drilling platform — to being stationed at onshore electronic observation centers.

On the night of Tuesday, April 20, an explosion rocked an offshore drilling platform, launching an intense effort to fight the ensuing fires and find the 11 people that went missing after the accident.

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.

Not exact matches

After a period of prolonged low oil prices, many offshore drillers are focusing on tying new wells in the Gulf of Mexico to existing infrastructure, rather than investing billions in new offshore platforms, he said.

«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.

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.

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.

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

Images: The wind farm: (c) David Clarke The hydro dam: (c) Amit Patel The pylons: (c) Jean Marc The forest: (c) Oliver Quinlan The offshore platform: (c) Maersk Drilling Freezing rain: (c) Danilo Rozman Bioenergy: (c) Metsäteho Oy The windmill: (c) Robert Vautard

I can't help but wonder whether, years from now, I'll still be writing pieces with titles like «Destroying What Remains,» as the Navy continues its war - gaming in an ice - free summer Arctic amid a sea of offshore oil drilling platforms.

Not only does more extreme weather threaten infrastructure like offshore oil platforms, but more droughts from global warming can create water stress, affecting hydropower and limiting resources for drilling.

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.

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.

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

A marine engineer is someone who designs, builds, tests and repairs ships, boats, underwater craft, offshore platforms, and drilling equipment.