Sentences with phrase «oil rig platforms»

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

Both Scotland's study of North Sea oil exploration and development know - how and its adaptation of oil rig platform designs was described by Michael Kanellos in this space last year.

Not exact matches

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.

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 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.

There is of course the alternative option of staying on the Seaventures Dive Platform (modified oil rig) located about 500m from Mabul island.

But maybe a few could be kept in place, replicating the Seaventures Dive Resort, a hotel and diving platform created out of a small oil rig in coral - rich waters off the Malaysian side of Borneo.

This week, he announced that the part of the agency which permits oil and gas drilling and collects royalties will be separated from the part of the agency in charge of inspecting the safety of oil rigs and platforms and enforcing the law.

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.

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.

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 disasters, from the fossil fuel industry, which is priming itself for a golden age under the incoming Trump Administration, and from the American public, whose oil reliance remains unchecked despite increasing awareness of both the massive downside of fossil fuel use and the increasing availability of clean, renewable energy sources.

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.

$ 1.7 Million Verdict against a drilling rig and an oil company when a Jones Act seaman fell from an elevated platform of a semi-submersible drilling rig.

She recalls one instance where four senior staff left a «mother» oil platform to deal with production problems on an unmanned rig.

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