Sentences with phrase «oil platform at»

Looking more like a small oil platform at the beginning of the game, the base can be transformed into a floating City with enough upgrades.

And this is, after all, the company that in 2000 «accidentally» sank the world's largest oil platform at the time just a few months after taking ownership of it.

Not exact matches

It is redesigning its deepwater oil platforms and onshore shale - gas projects to simplify them, a major cultural change at a firm that has long prided itself more for engineering prowess than for economic discipline.

The platform is used for everything from analyzing seismic data to find promising places to drill for oil to looking at plant genomes in search of new hybrids.

thanks, and yes, a pittance of a pension and regular checkups keep us on budget and head off any problems — best decision i ever made (financial or otherwise) was serving our country doing search - and - rescue, oil and chemical spill remediation, etc. (you can guess the branch of service)-- along the way, frugal living, along with dollar - cost averaging, asset allocation, and diversification allowed us to retire early — Vanguard has been very good over the years, despite the Dot Bomb, 2002, and the recession (where we actually came out better with a modest but bargain retirement home purchase)... it's not easy building additional «legs» on a retirement platform, but now that we're here, cash, real estate, investments and insurance products, along with a small pension all help to avoid any real dependence on social security (we won't even need it at full retirement age)-- however, like nearly everybody, we're headed for Medicare in several years, albeit with a nice supplemental and pharmacy benefits — but our main concern is staying fit, active, and healthy!

By Liz Hampton HOUSTON, May 3 (Reuters)-- At BP's massive Thunder Horse oil platform in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, a dog - sized robot called Maggie uses...

By Liz Hampton HOUSTON (Reuters)- At BP's massive Thunder Horse oil platform in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, a dog - sized robot called Maggie uses magnetic tracks to creep along...

At BP's massive Thunder Horse oil platform in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, a dog - sized robot called Maggie uses magnetic tracks to creep along pipes connecting the giant oil facility to the sea floor.

If oil prices continue to stay above the level assumed in the March 2011 Budget, and commodity prices continue to rise then corporate profits will be higher and the revenue savings resulting from keeping the rate at 18 % could actually be higher than in the Liberal platform.

A recent report also forecasted that nearly 150 oil platforms in the North Sea are scheduled to be decommissioned by 2026, as one in seven barrels there are produced at a loss, and around half of the 22 companies in the area are currently operating with significant deficits.

Offshore oil platforms are seen at the Bouri Oil Field off the coast of Libya August 3, 20oil platforms are seen at the Bouri Oil Field off the coast of Libya August 3, 20Oil Field off the coast of Libya August 3, 2015.

Based on an analysis of three rogue waves observed at different oil platforms in the North Sea over the course of a decade, the research was scheduled to be reported June 21 in the journal Scientific Reports.

«We saw similar wave behaviors at all three oil platforms,» said Francesco Fedele, a professor in the Georgia Tech School of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

Oil platforms over major petroleum reservoirs may house hundreds of staff members who live and work on the rig for weeks or months at a time.

The set design in Outland is one of realism, and in that scene, we really get a good look at what is essentially an oil - drilling platform in space.

Launched at the end of the late 1970s oil crisis, Ford's «Fox Body» Mustang (underpinned by Ford's Fox rear - drive platform) was meant to signal a return to the car's muscle - bound 1960s roots.

• All - new platform, suspension and exterior design • An unparalleled combination of performance and luxury at the time • Ruptured Exxon Valdez oil tanker ship dumps over 10 million gallons of crude oil off the coast of Alaska in 1989

Virtually everything else is either changed or completely different — sheet metal headers, in creased oil capacity, wider wheels, high - speed tires, re-engineered front suspension, beefed - up rear suspension, limited - slip differential, Warner T - 10 gearbox, no rear seat, spare tire moved to platform behind the seats, battery relocated into trunk, wood - rimmed steering wheel, added tachometer and oil pressure gauge, disc brakes at the front, heavy - duty drum brakes at the rear, quicker steering, Koni shocks all around and the whole package topped off with a special paint job.

[5] The Carpinteria Offshore Oil Field, about four miles (6 km) to the southeast, also once contained a pair of platforms dismantled that same year, and its three remaining platforms outside the 3 - mile (4.8 km) limit are visible from the shore at Summerland.

He surveyed both at natural reefs and oil platform jackets.

To qualify as a specialty diver, you'll need to make two jumps and dives in the area, and most likely one of those will be at the Eureka Oil Platform, an 8 - minute helicopter ride from land.

Richard Wilson's famous installation places the viewer at the end of a small platform in a sea of oil, which eerily mirrors the interior architecture of the host gallery.

In between co-directing the New York gallery Regina Rex (also showing at NADA Miami Beach 2015) and working on the nomadic curatorial platform Bull and Ram, Yevgeniya Baras also finds time to make the evocative abstract oil paintings you'll see on view alongside works by Ryan Nord Kitchen in Nicelle Beauchene's booth.

The eleven medium - to - large oil on canvas works on display at ICA inhabit a fairly large gallery: some of them are propped up on a long platform, others hang on false walls that feature rectangular cutout doorways.

2) I've talked to lots of scientists doing simulations of all sorts of things: — automobiles (Computational Fluid Dynamics for streamlining, crash codes for simulating care crashes — for the latter, sometimes simulations tell the designers that removing metal actually makes a car safer (ex: Ford Taurus, at one point)-- airplanes — bridges, oil platforms, buildings — human blood vessels and likely effects of surgery

On January 21 at 0:50 hours Zulu time, this MODIS Terra satellite image showed the eye of Magda to be about 186 km southwest of the Montara oil platform.

Note that most of the complex technology on oil platforms is needed to operate at the bottom.

Originally invented to clean up the BP Oil Spill pulling long oil sorbent using wind power by Cesar Harada, Protei is now a platform technology to transport scientific payload and clean - up equipment at sea, developed by an global community of scientists, engineers, makers and sailoOil Spill pulling long oil sorbent using wind power by Cesar Harada, Protei is now a platform technology to transport scientific payload and clean - up equipment at sea, developed by an global community of scientists, engineers, makers and sailooil sorbent using wind power by Cesar Harada, Protei is now a platform technology to transport scientific payload and clean - up equipment at sea, developed by an global community of scientists, engineers, makers and sailors.

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.

On the flip - side, WindCrete has no technical maximum depth — for example, there are oil platforms of similar design anchored in the Gulf of Mexico at depths of up to 2,300 meters.

Since the Deepwater Horizon incident unleashed 4.9 million barrels of oil the Gulf of Mexico suffered another rig explosion and fire at the Vermilion Block 380 A Platform on 2 September 2010.

And certainly we remember how Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demolished 113 offshore oil platforms and overturned storage tanks at onshore refineries.

Energy Hunter Resources, Inc., an exploration and production company with a balanced portfolio of oil and natural gas properties located in the Permian Basin and Eagle Ford Shale regions and headquartered in Dallas, Texas (www.energyhunter.energy), announced that it entered into a definitive agreement with Lubbock Energy Partners, LLC to acquire approximately 9,413 net acres located in the San Andres oil play of the Central Basin Platform portion of the Permian Basin in a 50/50 cash and restricted stock transaction valued at approximately $ 22.6 million.

At this time, tokens linked to the price of stocks (e.g., Apple, Amazon, Tesla), commodities (oil, gold, silver) and real estate are already being traded on the LAT platform.

this is decent phone and performs very well on many platforms but is not my first choice for budget users unless they crave for stock Android experience at and killer battery at low price over all the phone performs decently and can run many heavy games but I can easily grab a better phone than this in overall aspects in the market and one thing it's camera can be pretty pathetic at night or in artificial light but works decent in outdoor sunlight, the phone has a great built quality and I wish I had a slight improvement in processor because there is no Snapdragon and also fingerprint scanner is great and even works with oil also expandable storage is something I love and I know I will need but then again if you are looking for sharper view and higher pixel density then forget this device

Notable examples are tokens linked to fiat currencies are Tether (linked to USD), Digix (linked to precious metals) and tokenized shares of blue chips, along with oil and gold listed at the LAT Platform.