Sentences with phrase «offshore on the oil rigs»

Currently waiting to work offshore on the oil rigs.

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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.

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.

To some regulators, physical commodities represent a big risk: an operational problem, like an oil spill on an offshore rig, could lead to huge reputational damage and crater the bank's stock, potentially destabilizing it and the broader financial system.

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.

One day, Horsfield's team might be assessing the impact on marine life of a proposed offshore rig; another, they might be decommissioning an oil platform the size of Canary Wharf.

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.

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

Sure, it's all terribly derivative, and it all looks like an Armani ad, but that's just his way, the adorably fetishistic director, but hey, if you're gonna fetishize anything, if you're gonna make love to your subject matter, it might as well be Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson instead of offshore oil rigs exploding into mushroom clouds or 18 - wheelers flying through the air to crash almightily on the freeway or whatever.

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.

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.

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...

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

And while a federal court in Brazil has since ruled that both companies can continue operating the offshore rigs that are already active, they are still not allowed to start any new operations until a full investigation has concluded on what caused the two oil spills.

According to Lorne Stockman of Oil Change International, a think - tank focused on the post-carbon economy, it isn't clear how popular the new offshore leases will be with fossil fuel companies, particularly outside those areas of the Gulf already crowded with rigs and infrastructure.

The environmental effect was only the latest question prompted by the disaster on the Deepwater Horizon rig, which could shape up to be one of the worst U.S. offshore oil accidents in a generation.

While rescuers searched for 11 missing offshore oil workers off the coast of Louisiana, the flaming, tilting rig they were on sank Thursday morning in the Gulf of Mexico, the Coast Guard said.

For starters, the laws governing injury compensation for workers injured on offshore gas platforms, oil rigs, cargo vessels and other jobs on the open sea are different than standard workers» compensation laws.

The accidents can involve transport of all kinds, accidents on oil rigs and offshore platforms and diving accidents.

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.

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

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.