Sentences with phrase «oil rigs drilling»

U.S. energy companies added 12 oil rigs drilling for new production last week, taking the total to 759, General Electric Baker Hughes energy services firm said on Friday.

U.S. drillers added five oil rigs drilling for new production in the week ending April 20, bringing the total count to 820, the highest since March, 2015, according to General Electric's Baker Hughes energy services firm.

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Oil fell earlier in the day after a weekly report showed U.S. drillers added five oil rigs in the week to April Oil fell earlier in the day after a weekly report showed U.S. drillers added five oil rigs in the week to April oil rigs in the week to April 27.

Grad, 71, studied petroleum engineering and entered the oil industry in 1971, labouring on drilling rigs.

U.S. drillers added five oil rigs in the week to April 27, bringing the total count to 825, the highest since March 2015, General Electric's Baker Hughes energy services firm said.

Rig supervisors are responsible for overseeing 10 to 20 people on several crews, who operate oil or gas drilling rigs around the clock.

U.S. drillers added five oil rigs looking for new production in the week to April 27, according to energy services firm Baker Hughes, bringing the total count to a March 2015 high of 825.

OSLO, April 18 - Offshore oil driller Seadrill plans to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy in late June or early July to catch the rising wave of rig market activity, its chief executive told said on Wednesday.

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

The tally of oil rigs rose in recent weeks, with oil prices near $ 50 per barrel and demand for drilling equipment on the rise.

OSLO, April 18 (Reuters)- Offshore oil driller Seadrill plans to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy in late June or early July to catch the rising wave of rig market activity, its chief executive told said on Wednesday.

Oklahoma has been a huge oil - producing state, and while drilling - heavy states have tended to do well in previous editions of our rankings, the collapse in oil prices and in active drilling rigs is starting to hurt.

Rig supervisors typically oversee two to three crews (of four to six people), which operate oil or gas drilling rigs around the clock.

But now Papa said the the best days are behind some of those fields after a period of low oil prices prompted drillers to train their rigs on their best acreage and deplete the most cost - efficient production.

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.

The signs are clear — US drillers are no longer adding rigs at breakneck paces, despite the rise in oil prices.

She has also noticed oil drilling rigs on several of her neighbor's property.

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.

Lower oil prices have lead to decreased rig counts and less need for drilling materials.

PTSD sufferers in the battered upstream oil and gas industry will take little comfort to learn their economic future is in the hands of software written by programmers and traders who have never set foot on a drilling rig or production operation, nor put on a pair of coveralls or a hard hat.

Companies whose businesses are dominated by either of the following activities: The construction or provision of oil rigs, drilling equipment and other energy - related service and equipment, including seismic data collection.

Shares in the oil drilling services firm Transocean (RIG) are rising by about 2.5 % premarket after the company said it had reached two settlements related to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010.

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.

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

Per Google Finance, Seahawk Drilling «operates a jackup rig business that provides contract drilling services to the oil and natural gas exploration and production industry in the Gulf of MexicoDrilling «operates a jackup rig business that provides contract drilling services to the oil and natural gas exploration and production industry in the Gulf of Mexicodrilling services to the oil and natural gas exploration and production industry in the Gulf of Mexico.»

The markets reacted apathetically to Baker Hughes US Crude Oil Drilling Rig Count., UP 5 to 820 Rigs, Most Since March 2015 suggesting that the primary focus is falling on Iran sanctions while declining production is overshadowing the Rig count in Venezuela and Angola.

Better that the Independent Oil and Gas Association show a skull and crossbones than a drill rig.

The blunt - spoken civil engineer has spent more than a half - century investigating high - profile engineering failures, from the space shuttle Columbia's horrific end to the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil - drilling rig in the Gulf.

The Gulf of Mexico may be open for business and eager to attract tourists, but it's still unclear whether or not marine and coastal ecosystems there are healthy two years after BP's offshore drilling rig exploded 40 miles off the Louisiana coast, eventually releasing 205.8 million gallons of oil into the water column.

The study challenges the estimate by federal officials, based on the amount of oil on the sea surface, that around 5000 barrels (800 cubic metres) of oil per day are pouring into the sea from the site where the BP - operated drilling rig Deepwater Horizon was destroyed by fire last month.

has pledged a vigorous battle against a provision added last week that could bring oil and gas rigs closer to Florida's Gulf Coast, upending a 2006 deal that provided the state a 100 - to 235 - mile no - drill buffer through mid-2022.

The scientist - versus - scientist clashes are just some of the new details about science's role in stopping the spill that have emerged in the year since the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded and set off what would become the worst oil spill in U.S. history.

If test drilling revealed recoverable oil reserves, she says that a company would have to plunk down another $ 2 billion for an oil rig.

In 2000, the US Department of the Interior's Minerals Management Service (MMS) published a report warning that there were several difficulties connected with deep - water well control, that experience in this area was «limited» and with many rigs having very high oil production rates, a blowout could be «a potential show - stopper» for deep - water drilling in general.

Free to choose the cheapest, most direct way to reach drilling sites, oil companies dredged canals off natural waterways to transport rigs and work crews.

The rig, owned and operated by the Nabors Drilling company and previously used to find oil or gas, first bit into the reddish soil here in July 2002, drilling a pilot hole 1.4 miles deep, which was outfitted with a string of seismDrilling company and previously used to find oil or gas, first bit into the reddish soil here in July 2002, drilling a pilot hole 1.4 miles deep, which was outfitted with a string of seismdrilling a pilot hole 1.4 miles deep, which was outfitted with a string of seismometers.

Dumptrucks for gravel; 18 wheelers for supplies, water, waste, drilling mud, pipe, fuel, cement and oil; flatbeds for excavators and rig equipment — plus hundreds of trips in work trucks and pickups.

For example, understanding these effects can be essential to figuring out how much oil is needed to keep a gear train from running dry, or how much drilling «mud» is needed to keep an oil rig working smoothly.

After the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded on April 20, 2010, a huge plume of pressurized oil and gas poured into the Gulf of Mexico.

A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine identifies strategies for improving the reliability of bolts used in offshore oil and gas drilling rigs, thereby reducing the risk that a bolt failure could cause a spill of oil, drilling fluids, or natural gas into the environment.

The Obama administration has issued new rules governing offshore drilling, six years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster killed 11 rig workers and spewed millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.

The number of rotary rigs drilling for oil was up 12 at 759.

The film recounts the real events of April 2010, when the drilling rig Deepwater Horizon exploded into flames, causing the worst oil - spill in US history.

Film Review by Kam Williams Spectacular Disaster Flick Depicts Real - Life Events Surrounding BP Oil Spill On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, located 41 miles off the coast of Louisiana, exploded when high - pressure methane gas blew out the drill pipe.

We get acclimated with a few of the hundreds of men and women working aboard the titular vessel, an offshore oil drilling rig.

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

This film recounts the events of April 2010, when a drilling rig off the coast of Louisiana exploded, creating the biggest oil - spill in US history.

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.

Directed by Peter Berg, the film is a dramatization of the 2010 disaster in which the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon explodes, thus creating the worst oil spill in U.S. history.

Other than having seen oil rigs in water a few places in the world, I don't have the prior knowledge about any kind of oil drilling to understand the text.