Sentences with phrase «oil rig as»

As for increased sealife around oil rigs as a good thing (previous comment)-- please note that sea life congregates around outcroppings in the ocean — in the case of oil rigs though, the sea life ends up with dangerously high levels of mercury from mercury contaminated drilling muds.

Not exact matches

That's good news (so long as you don't own any oil rigs).

SINGAPORE, April 23 (Reuters)- Oil prices dipped early on Monday as a rising U.S. rig count pointed to further increases in the country's output, underlining one of only a few factors holding back crude markets in an otherwise bullish environment.

Oil prices gave up earlier gains as rising U.S. output loomed over markets, despite a slowdown in rig drilling activity.

SINGAPORE, April 23 (Reuters)- Oil prices dipped on Monday as a rising U.S. rig count pointed to further increases in the country's output, underlining one of only a few factors holding back crude markets in an otherwise bullish environment.

Employers across the state have shed thousands of jobs since October 2015, as more than a third of New Mexico's oil rigs shut down.

As a college graduate schooled in accounting, working on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico was not my idea of a job, much less a career.

Beyond the actual gas project and LNG sales, China's state - run shipping conglomerate COSCO has also secured a 50 percent stake in the four LNG shipping carriers serving Yamal.90 Chinese engineers and workers have been deployed to the Yamal Peninsula to help construct surrounding infrastructure, which includes a Chinese - produced polar drilling rig.91 Moreover, a Chinese oil and gas rig producer now provides Russia with about 60 percent of its imported oil rig supplies, indicating that China is becoming a dominant player in this sphere.92 Chinese media recently hailed Yamal as an example of China's construction and engineering prowess and a symbol of its transformation into an Arctic player.93 In return for China stepping into support the project, senior officials from Novatek, the main shareholder of the project, announced that the first LNG shipment would symbolically go to China.94 But a British subsidiary of Malaysia's Petronas purchased the first shipment of Yamal LNG and sold it to France's Engie, which then shipped the cargo to its Boston import facility for American use.95 Western sanctions on Novatek, Russia's largest independent national gas producer and a company with close ties to the Kremlin, made Yamal's pivot to China possible, as sanctions forced Russia to find an alternative source of investment and technology.

Crude oil prices are taking a step back on Monday as an increase in rig counts and a drop - in supply in Cushing, Okla., and a perceived drop in Geo - political risk premium are causing traders to take a step back.

After falling for four consecutive months, support activities for mining and oil and gas extraction rose 9.9 % in April, as both rigging and drilling services advanced.

The opportunity arose, I argued, because it seemed to me that the oil environment was finally, in fact, ready to improve — oil stockpiles were finally dropping below 5 - year averages and declining steadily, and rig counts were due to decline as well, after so many months of sub-profitable oil prices.

«We have had our eye on looking for the best opportunity for us to get into LNG and Asia - Pacific — I see those as pretty closely linked — and that's what led us to thinking about Santos,» says US - born Cook, a one - time trainee on oil rigs in Michigan whose track record at Shell has earned her the moniker of the «first lady» of oil and gas.

Oil getting hit for 2 % as US Producers add more rigs and Iran ramps exports, while Natty Gas drops 1.5 %, adding to last week's losses.

After going through the ritualistic Monday morning downside test on the back of rising oil drilling rig counts, WTI rallied around $ 2 towards $ 69.35 in NY, as traders remain singularly focused on the Iran nuclear deal.

Within the energy sector, the gains were split evenly among equipment and consumable fuels as rising oil prices saw investment in rigs and additional exploration.

Kuwait Oil Co. will soon offer contracts for offshore rigs and support services to drill its first undersea wells as the Persian Gulf nation tries to boost crude output to Continue Reading

The oil rig count, as reported by Baker Hughes, has advanced for the third consecutive week, after 29 straight weeks of declines.

The mum - of - two from Aberdeenshire only started making videos of her pregnancy as a private thing to be watched by herself and her husband, Lee, 29, an oil rig worker.

Here's a fascinating use of a crowdsourcing technology called Ushahidi, originally developed to track election violence in Kenya: as the Times reports, a group called the Louisiana Bucket Brigade is employing the distributed reporting tool to let local citizens help track the fallout from the rig explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

By Dr Sam Illingworth, University of Manchester Today marks the end of the August flying campaign for MAMM, a whilst there will be a transit back to the UK tomorrow (as well as hopefully some methane measurements over the off shore oil rigs in the North Sea), today's flights are the last to be making -LSB-...]

Oil rigs and nuclear missiles and microwave ovens and the New York Stock Exchange and international phone calls — all work more efficiently than in decades past, but they still feel much the same as they did many, many years ago.

The results suggest that oil from the new reservoir, called Jack 2, could cost three to four times as much to extract as oil from traditional locations, including rigs on land.

So far the tides of toxic waste and exploded - oil - rig crude haven't made it as far as my sleepy burb.

But most of the redundancies are likely to fall on researchers and engineers whose work has focused on big projects, such as the installation of huge oil rigs and pipelines.

Geomaticians are equally likely to be found working for offshore companies positioning oil rigs and monitoring pipelines across oceans as they are to be found mapping utilities for your local council.

This can be done by sinking oil rigs (through the Rigs - to - Reefs program), scuttling ships (such as the USS Oriskany), or by deploying rubble, tires, or construction debrigs (through the Rigs - to - Reefs program), scuttling ships (such as the USS Oriskany), or by deploying rubble, tires, or construction debRigs - to - Reefs program), scuttling ships (such as the USS Oriskany), or by deploying rubble, tires, or construction debris.

«Today, cognitive undersea acoustics is a key wireless communication technology that can be used for a wide range of military, commercial, and scientific applications, including tactical surveillance, offshore exploration, monitoring of subsea machinery such as oil - rigs and pipelines, disaster prevention as well as the study of marine life,» said Stella N. Batalama, Ph.D., principal investigator and dean of FAU's College of Engineering and Computer Science, who is collaborating with Dimitris Pados, Ph.D., co-principal investigator, professor in FAU's Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and I - SENSE Fellow.

And it could imperil vital infrastructure such as oil pipelines and rigs, as well.

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

As Professor of Marine Sciences at the University of Georgia, she is studying the impact of the catastrophic Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion of 2010.

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.

Remembered as the worst spill in U.S. history, the incident involved a BP - operated rig exploding and sinking near the Mississippi River Delta before it unloaded millions of gallons of crude oil into the water for over a month.

It is here that, in defiance from the dour Calvinist body politic in which she lives that Bess McNeill (Emily Watson, brilliant), a detached ingénue, begins to burgeon as her love for Jan Nyman (Stellan Skarsgård, superb), a Swedish oil - rig worker and athiest, manifests into marriage.

The distant profiles of drilling rigs and oil refineries might as well be mysterious prehistoric artifacts.

Signature DOA Finishing Moves: Power blows and the new power launcher cause even more mayhem, such as interactively triggering the Danger Zone of a stage, including crashing cars, collapsing glaciers, and an exploding oil rig — distract your opponent or drive them into danger.

But it wouldn't take much to see that BP honcho — John Malkovich's character snarling through his teeth and a Louisiana drawl — is the kind of guy you could trust about as far as you could throw an oil rig.

The first part of the game or prequel mission serves as a tutorial which teaches the players the control mechanics of the title which is fleshed out more when you return to your abandoned oil rig with Ocelot (Troy Baker) who helps you fine tune your mercenary skills at «mother base».

He's since played several supporting roles in Canadian and American indies, notably, as a macho oil rig worker in Never Steady, Never Still.

Furiosa is in a position of power though, as the driver for the rig that transports precious gasoline, from a lone oil refinery, to the Citadel.

One of CAT's sustainability activities uses picture cards showing different stages of the production chain such as factories, woodlands or oil rigs to investigate familiar products such as chocolate eggs or mobile phones.

Report: 4 of 4 Previous reports: Sept.» 08, Jan.» 09, Apr.»09 Base price: $ 31,450 Price as tested: $ 36,020 Four - wheel - drive system: Two - speed, part - time electronic shift on the fly Long - Term Numbers Miles to date: 23,315 Miles since last report: 7,288 Average mpg (this report): 13.33 Test best tank (mpg): 17.18 Test worst tank (mpg): 8.25 (towing) Maintenance Oil change: $ 62.15 Mid-service: $ 132.50 Problem areas: Warped front rotors, some squeaks and creaks What's Hot, What's Not Hot: Awesome power, exhaust note, features, storage, fine tow rig Not: Interior quality not as good as competition, aggressive traction control, some squeaks and rattles Logbook Quotes * «King Cab is a great size for a personal - use truck, but if you want to put real people back there, get the Crew.»

Gertie has lived with her great - aunt Rae ever since her mother left, as her father is often away working on an oil rig.

The whale tale forms the center of the story but, for me, it was the bit players that stole the show - the rays wallowing in the warm water under the pier, the sun fish snoozling close to the legs of the oil rig, the green sea turtles «carrying their homes along with them like aquatic RVs» and the herd of dolphins vying with each other to perform the most dare - devilish tricks (I thought the collective noun for dolphins was pod, but Lynne refers to them as a herd, and I'm not the landlubber to question her!)

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...

When he dies after an accident on the oil rig, the family returns to Elizabeth's birthplace, taking charge of the family farm just as the Depression hits.

As Barry said in the above article, when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, erupting 60,000 barrels of oil into the ocean

In the wake of Benchley's novel, we quickly got such memorable chum as Megalodon (oil rig explosion unleashes giant shark), Carcharodan (prehistoric shark freed when iceberg melts), Extinct (killer shark preys on boys in Mississippi River) and Meg (really big pregnant shark bubbles up from Marianas Trench and eats dumb tourists.)

Think of jobs like oil rig worker, underwater welder / construction, working in war zones as a contractor, and more.

Without committing to any of them, he gave examples of the best opportunities he's come across: Helmerich & Payne (HP), the largest owner - operator of land rigs in the oil business, described as «fantastic operators, terrific capital allocators with the industry's highest - quality equipment for which clients willingly pay a premium.»

During 2008 the company benefited from high spot prices for oil and natural gas as well as a contraction in rig count within the GOM.