Sentences with phrase «oil platforms»

Using advanced mathematical techniques, the researchers modeled how waves could combine in very unusual circumstances to produce the rogue waves measured in at three different oil platforms in 1995, 2007 and 2015.

Unfortunately, the dangers of working on an offshore oil platform continue to be a major concern as oil companies try to cut corners and reduce costs further.

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.

For example, many of the components on a modern oil platform are now connected; there are over 30,000 sensors on such a platform.

We are committed to helping victims of devastating oil platform accidents recover physically and financially from their injuries.

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...

Fracking and acidizing threaten our marine wildlife, recreation, clean air, and water quality and yet they are taking place without proper environmental review from oil platforms in the Santa Barbara Channel, home to a National Park, a Marine Sanctuary, and a network of Marine Protected Areas.

Rogue ocean waves can develop seemingly out of nowhere to sink ships and overwhelm oil platforms with walls of water as much as 25 meters high.

The hull of the Shell deepwater oil platform Appomattox arriving in Ingleside, Texas, in October for final assembly.

LOWER PROFILE: Shell's Appomattox oil platform, capable of reaching 175,000 barrels of oil per day, will soon be active in the Gulf of Mexico.

An international team of scientists has developed a relatively simple mathematical explanation for the rogue ocean waves that can develop seemingly out of nowhere to sink ships and overwhelm oil platforms with walls of water as much as 25 meters high.

Petrobras has had its own accidents along the way, including the 2001 explosion and sinking of P - 36, then the world's largest floating oil platform.

Oil platform workers are typically required to wear hard hats and steel - toed boots, but even with these and other safety standards, offshore disasters happen all the time.

In February, Elop issued a memo comparing the company to a person on a burning deep - sea oil platform.

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.

For example, Transocean alone operates 10 of the 60 offshore oil platforms currently in operation in Brazil.

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

Robert Bea helped investigate the 1988 Piper Alpha disaster, where an exploding oil platform killed 167 in the North Sea.

Congress, as well as the Minerals and Management Service, the federal agency that regulates drilling in the Gulf, were already separately investigating allegations that BP has failed to keep proper documents about how to perform an emergency shutdown of the Atlantis, another Gulf oil platform and one of the largest in the world.

The chance encounter of a Norwegian research vessel with the largest waves ever recorded amid floating packs of Arctic ice shows how such rollers could reroute shipping, damage oil platforms and threaten coastal communities with erosion.

The research traces its origins to one summer day in 2007, when a worker on a Maersk Oil platform in the Al Shaheen oil field off the coast of Qatar saw a surprising sight: a group of roughly 100 whale sharks feeding near the surface.

Osborne's swagger seems a bit subdued as we wind our way through the laboratories and testing pools, past scale models of tankers and oil platforms detailed down to the company logos painted on their sides (no photos allowed).

A combtooth blenny peeks out from its tiny hiding place, having moved into the empty shell of a barnacle that once grew and attached to an underwater beam of a Gabonese oil platform.

In seven videos made by remotely operated vehicles (one off the California coast, six near oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico), the researchers observed G. bonplandi wriggling the fleshy clubs on the ends of its tentacles in a way that resembles the undulations of a small, swimming animal (see video).

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.

[17] But at the same time, offshore oil platforms also form micro-habitats for marine creatures.

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 new map is called Oil Platform and the 7 new achievements are only obtainable in online or local co-op.

We've already seen some footage from Metal Gear Solid V, including a tour of one of the most famous oil platforms in gaming, the Mother Base, that will serve as the main hub of the game.

They noted that because the COP seeps were associated with a producing oil platform then operated by ARCO, continued oil production might result in a decrease in volume of seep discharge.

Remembering the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill that ensued from from carelessness and mismanagement on Union Oil Platform A in the Santa Barbara Channel, Tuesday's spill presents itself as an unacceptable wake - up call.

An offshore oil platform suffered a blowout.

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.

The creepy church buried beneath sand dunes, the crumbling lighthouse and the reclaimed oil platforms are stand out moments that are all well designed and are full of those «Huh, something bad happened here» moments.

The recent surge in working class job simulators (Farm Simulator, Oil Platform Simulator, Stone Quarry Simulator, Street Cleaning Simulator, Euro Truck Driver and all the rest) have made the close ties between work and video games explicit, but it's always been there, hidden in plain sight.

Events like these rise from natural and technological systems and even from humanity itself; for example, a tsunami half a planet large, a broken nuclear power plant or collapsed oil platform, or a terrorist attack such as the one that happened on 9/11.

WRT offshore oil platforms hosting sea life, I am reminded that of all places, the Hanford Nuclear Site is one of the better habitats in the area — lots of space, few people.

Bordering currents of up to 4 knots (4.6 mi per hr) can play havoc with offshore oil platform operations, damaging equipment and increasing the risk of accidents.

As for the BP leak, on 12 May 2010 California Democrat Representative Henry Waxman said that the House Oversight and Investigations subcommittee investigation into the Gulf oil spill revealed that the Deepwater Horizon Macaondo oil platform's blowout preventer (BOP) did not pass a crucial pressure test just hours before the explosion.

Larry Bowoto and 100 other Nigerians were staging a peaceful protest on a Chevron oil platform demanding talks between the corporation and local villagers about job training and opportunities.

Under this law, fixed oil platforms are considered an «island» of the closest contiguous state.

Elop compared the company's decision to abandon Symbian for Windows Phone to jumping off of a burning oil platform, which is pretty accurate.

Salvage diver and Inspector (NDT) on various oil platforms, vessels and barges in the Gulf of Mexico

The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) said yesterday that it will ensure total protection of oil platforms and gas pipelines in the Niger Delta noting that it has observed with dismay the unpatriotic attacks on the nation's economic lifeline in the Niger -LSB-...]