Sentences with phrase «offshore oil rigs»

She was the first female engineer to work on offshore oil rigs in the UK — an environment that she's said was less sexist than her next workplace in the investment banking industry.

While such realignment is rare, in some circumstances such as on offshore oil rig platforms, complete adaption has been observed.

More than 200,000 gallons of crude oil have been released into the Gulf of Mexico every day since an April 20 explosion destroyed the BP - owned offshore oil rig Deepwater Horizon.

According to a recent National Academy of Sciences report, every signal failure could cost a single offshore oil rig as much as $ 2 million, as GPS is used to keep the platform in place.

Norway's Statoil is investing in offshore wind farms, leveraging its expertise building offshore oil rigs, and investing in research into capturing and storing carbon dioxide.

The original theme of Jeff's book about peak oil was that as the easy to produce oil got used up, production would shift to the more costly sources like Alberta bitumen, shale oil, and farther offshore oil rigs.

CHANNEL BASS: LOUISIANA: FG in most deep passes leading into Gulf of Mexico and around offshore oil rigs.

Waves up to 80 feet (24 metres) high have hit offshore oil rigs, but operators thought these were isolated «rogue» waves.

The White House on Thursday issued new regulations governing offshore oil rigs in an attempt to prevent oil - well blowouts and minimize environmental damage from future leaks.

The mining complex, for instance, looks like a cross between the main spaceship in «Alien» and one of today's big offshore oil rigs, all towers and girders, platforms and rigging.

Travis» Take: «They service offshore oil rigs, which certainly have gotten a lot of negative press.

It and other oil - producing nations have, among other things, claimed a need for adaptation funding — normally reserved for the poor nations that have done little to cause climate change but are bearing the brunt of weather disasters and other problems — because of rising sea levels that threaten offshore oil rigs.

We fight dirty energy projects on all fronts — from offshore oil rigs in the Arctic to fracking rigs in people's backyards.

Their closest rivals are offshore oil rigs which are far less numerous, not seen from inland areas, and not designed for permanence.

As WWF reports, there are currently four offshore oil rigs near Sakhalin Island.

Houston, Texas is unique in that it is also home to many victims of maritime workplace accidents, such as offshore oil rig mishaps or ship groundings.

But AIMS believes its computer could also be a powerful tool for police searches, naval operations and the maintenance of offshore oil rigs.

Employees working on offshore oil rig and gas platforms are 7 times more likely to die on the job than the average American worker, according to the CDC.

Another example is that a lot of the push for offshore wind turbines comes from companies which traditionally built offshore oil rigs.

TV commercials cast a heroic light on engineers toiling on the Alaska pipeline or offshore oil rigs, suggesting that Exxon, unlike those environmental fanatics, is pitching in to help the people.

Should offshore oil rigs be turned into luxury hotels?

Even if the drifting ice doesn't collide anywhere with the shoreline, it still poses a risk to ships and offshore oil rigs.

The dangling ends of the ribbons will be anchored to a platform similar to an offshore oil rig in the Pacific Ocean.

«Report identifies options for lowering risk of failure of undersea bolts on offshore oil rigs.»

Bolts and other fasteners are an integral part of undersea equipment in offshore oil rigs, including for critical pieces of safety equipment such as blow - out preventers (BOP).

In 1984, after a stint on an offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, Texas native Richard Linklater, armed with a Super-8 camera, projector and editing equipment moved to Austin, Texas and enrolled in Austin Community College to study film.

After some nattering about who should possess the Matrix of Leadership (which is not a managerial manual but a kind of airborne power - conferring crystal), the two Primes join forces to foil what has to be one of the worst - thought - through evil schemes in movie - villain history: something about towing the planet Cybertron close to Earth and enslaving the human population to rebuild it, as if it were an offshore oil rig?

In his recent film - Deepwater Horizon, Berg miraculously finds a way to make the ins - and - outs of an offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, seem interesting.

I am writing, of course, about that recent season when the offshore oil rig Deepwater Horizon blew out in the Gulf and the bottom of the ocean sprang a leak.

Before entering the sea urchin business, Robinson had worked for years as a deep - sea diver for an offshore oil rig in the North Sea near the English Channel.

«Nightmare» is a reaction to the terrible disaster brought on by the explosion of the offshore oil rig in the Gulf and to our treatment of the living ocean.

When an oil production platform caught fire in the Gulf of Mexico near the Louisiana coast last week, a collective gasp would have been appropriate — from the residents of coastal Louisiana, who are no strangers to offshore oil rig... Continue reading →

Represented a petroleum services company in international arbitration before the American Arbitration Association over the rehabilitation of an offshore oil rig.

Scaffolding is common in many workplaces, from construction sites to refineries to offshore oil rigs.

Seamen who are injured on sea vessels or offshore oil rigs that can be towed (not stationary) are covered under General Maritime Law in Houston.

Our careers have been dedicated to the representation of workers and seamen aboard ships, tugs, fishing boats, fish processors, trawlers, draggers, longliners, crabbers, seiners, factory trawlers, gillnetters, offshore oil rigs, pleasure boats, barges, pile drivers, and derricks.

We represent seamen injured or taken ill aboard fishing vessels, fish processors, crab boats, tug boats, ships, ferry boats, derricks, barges, dredges, and all other types of vessels, including aircrafts at sea and offshore oil rigs.

In Seafarers» International Union of Canada and Dome Petroleum Ltd., the CIRB used that rationale to allow a trade union access to workers on the employer's offshore oil rigs and vessels.

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.