Sentences with phrase «oil worker on»

Earlier European modernism was a strong influence on Houshang Pezeshknia, who depicted oil workers on the island of Khark in this 1958 portrait.

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Graduates go on to be helicopter pilots for a variety of programs including emergency medical service programs, charter tours or bringing workers to offshore oil and gas rigs.

Nigeria's nationwide oil - worker strike ended over the weekend, and oil prices fell as low as $ 67.55 per barrel on Monday.

The ban is being imposed despite the Philippines» reliance on remittance money from its Kuwait - based workers — 262,000 Filipinos are employed in the oil - rich Gulf sheikhdom, 60 percent as domestic staff.

Black Elk struggled financially after a November 2012 explosion on a Gulf of Mexico rig killed three workers and caused an oil spill.

HOUSTON, April 10 - U.S. shale oil producer Devon Energy Corp said on Tuesday it would lay off 300 workers, roughly 9 percent of staff, part of a plan to streamline its operations.

The Liberals are unlikely to make any final decision on drug testing until the Supreme Court of Canada rules on its legality in a case between Suncor and workers at its Alberta oil sands operation, said Troy Winters, senior health and safety officer with the Canadian Union of Public Employees.

The loss of both top level engineers and managers as well as workers on the ground ensure the oil production losses will continue.

Back in March, 1,000 construction workers employed on contract to work on the $ 3.2 billion Sunrise oil sands project were laid off.

Some oil workers have resorted to working odd jobs on the side, taking vacation to work abroad, or even selling their work uniforms - red overalls - for money to eat.

What's going on is that thousands of oil workers are fleeing the state - run oil firm under the watch of its new military commander, who has quickly alienated the firm's embattled upper echelon and its rank - and - file, according to union leaders, a half - dozen current PDVSA workers, a dozen former PDVSA workers and a half - dozen executives at foreign companies operating in Venezuela.

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.

Contributing to the decreased supply is the Trump Administration's sanctions on OPEC countries boosting reliance on domestic oil supplies and a long - running economic crisis in Venezuela, where oil workers have been «resigning in droves» since their state oil company was taken over by a military leader.

A worker works on a liquefied natural gas (LNG) tanker at a port of the China National Offshore Oil Co (CNOOC) in Tianjin, China November 6, 2017.

CALGARY — Multiple workers were injured and some transported to hospital on Thursday morning after a fire broke out at Husky Energy Inc.'s refinery in Superior, Wisc. putting the Calgary - based oil producer on the defensive, as it argued there were no known commonalities between the accident and other recent operational mistakes.

HOUSTON Devon Energy Corp said on Tuesday it would lay off 300 workers, roughly 9 percent of staff, part of a plan to streamline operations and boost the shale oil producer's sagging returns and stock price.

HOUSTON (Reuters)- Devon Energy Corp said on Tuesday it would lay off 300 workers, roughly 9 percent of staff, part of a plan to streamline operations and boost the shale oil producer's sagging returns and stock price.

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A worker on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig is claiming he told BP about a faulty piece of safety equipment weeks before the rig explosion that has led to the largest oil spill in U.S. history.

Palsgaard has been a member of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) since 2008, and sees the topic of sustainability as an essential issue for protecting the global environment, upholding biodiversity and providing suitable working conditions for local plantation workers.

Today, the Palm Oil Innovation Group (POIG) released a publication titled, «Palm Oil Innovations: Labour Rights» on the heels of the 14th annual meeting of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) in Bangkok, Thailand which highlighted worker exploitation issues in the palm oil sectOil Innovation Group (POIG) released a publication titled, «Palm Oil Innovations: Labour Rights» on the heels of the 14th annual meeting of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) in Bangkok, Thailand which highlighted worker exploitation issues in the palm oil sectOil Innovations: Labour Rights» on the heels of the 14th annual meeting of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) in Bangkok, Thailand which highlighted worker exploitation issues in the palm oil sectOil (RSPO) in Bangkok, Thailand which highlighted worker exploitation issues in the palm oil sectoil sector.

Commissioner Dominica Whelan refused to allow Esso and its contractors to shift oil - rig workers to a 14 - days - on 14 - days - off roster, from an existing seven - day cycle, saying it was widely now accepted that «the role of fathers is vital in the family».

In December 2011, oil workers who went on strike for better working conditions were machine - gunned to death by the country's police in an act known as the Zhanaozen massacre.

Up to 40,000 barrels per day (bpd) are thought to have gushed into the Gulf since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded on April 20th, killing 11 workers.

Tuesday's fire explosion at a factory near Olam Oil Depot on the Sekondi - Takoradi highway left several workers injured.

Blame William Hague for his spineless comments when British jobs were on the line at the Total oil refinery, blame David Cameron for not saying he'd abandon the Lisbon Treaty, and blame George Osborne for talking about public spending cuts at a time when only public sector workers are working.

No one is blaming her for the collapse of oil prices in the international market but that after a cumulative 8 years as finance minister, public finance is so heavily dependent on oil that the Federal and state governments can not pay their workers» salaries says a lot about the quality of management she did.

«Recently, a prominent traditional Ruler in the State, King Dakolo of Ekpetiama raised an alarm on human trafficking activities in parts of the State by oil workers and Expatriates and appealed to NAPTIP to intervene.

An oil worker abducted during a Joint investigative Visit (JIV) on April 19 at an oilfield operated by Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) inoil worker abducted during a Joint investigative Visit (JIV) on April 19 at an oilfield operated by Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) inOil Company (NAOC) in...

Stockholders of Texas - based oil giant ExxonMobil are set to vote Wednesday on a proposed company policy to ban discrimination against gay or transgender workers, a resolution pushed by New York Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli.

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 surfaOil 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 surfaoil field off the coast of Qatar saw a surprising sight: a group of roughly 100 whale sharks feeding near the surface.

But more often, workers fill open pits with crude oil and light them on fire.

The study results «indicate that participation in the cleanup of oil spills can have undesirable effects on health,» says the lead researcher, Joan Albert Barberà, MD, but he stresses that the cleanup workers in the study weren't sick.

The findings suggest that doctors and health officials in the U.S. should be on the lookout for respiratory problems in workers who were exposed to the huge amounts of oil that gushed from the recently capped leak in the Gulf of Mexico.

Meet trainers who work with oil - rig workers, elite combat units, and astronauts, and get their advice on building your career beyond the typical gym environment.

Being an oil rig worker I have had a few periods off with a lot of time on my hands and joined many different dating sites and found many commonalities after more dates than could be counted

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The premise is simple: Workers on an oil rig in the wilderness region of Alaska crash in their airplane transport in an area many miles away from the nearest semblance of human civilization.

In the top category, Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Filmmaking, «Citizenfour» will compete against the Steve James» Roger Ebert documentary, «Life Itself»; Ian Forsythe's and Jane's Pollard's «20,000 Days on Earth,» about musician Nick Cave; Jesse Moss» «The Overnighters,» about workers flocking to oil fields in North Dakota; and Orlando von Einsiedel's «Virunga,» which deals with threats to a national park in the Congo.

Set in 2007 Iraq, «The Wall» opens on Taylor - Johnson's Sgt. Allen Isaac and Cena's Staff Sgt. Shane Matthews as the two are following up, from a distance, after an attack at an oil - pipeline construction site that has left four workers and two security contractors dead.

I would not try to assume that stocks are a good inflation hedge... Corporations have to buy raw materials and have to feed hungry workers... When the price of oil and foold go up it is very hard for corporations to improve on earnings, so if you think about it, much of the benefits of a rise in CPI are negated by a rise in raw materials prices... Put more bluntly, we are in a period of stagflation right now.

Workers and businessman who expected the commodities and crude oil boom to go on forever have seen their prospects diminish.

Following the completion of her 2009 - 2010 series on the US Mexico border, Sambunaris spent four years traveling from the southern border of Texas to the Permian Basin and the Gulf Coastal Plains, photographing and interviewing local residents, pipe layers, rail men, oil workers, shipping executives, fishermen, truckers, port workers and marine biologists.

LIGHT / WORK will feature Oil Workers (from the Shell company of Nigeria) returning home from work, caught in torrential rain (2013), a video work meticulously reconstructed from a small photograph found on the Internet of workers taking shelter from monsoon rains under a Workers (from the Shell company of Nigeria) returning home from work, caught in torrential rain (2013), a video work meticulously reconstructed from a small photograph found on the Internet of workers taking shelter from monsoon rains under a workers taking shelter from monsoon rains under a bridge.

He's also implying that he'll stick with his (ill - timed) support for expanded offshore drilling — although obviously with an aggressive clampdown on the oil industry and the agencies that, in theory at least, were supposed to protect workers and the environment.

In an economy that relies so heavily on oil, rising prices at the pump affect everybody --- workers, farmers, truck drivers, restaurant owners, students who are lucky enough to have a car.

David Brancaccio, a longtime correspondent for public radio and television, has written a fascinating post on his new Economy 4.0 blog for the Marketplace radio show analyzing the economic impacts of the gulf oil spill six months after explosions killed 11 workers and unleashed the gusher in the seabed.

Either way, Americans finally had an opportunity to make a huge shift away from their reliance on illiberal conflict oil, and towards a greater and more secure supply of oil produced in a peaceful country, upholding only the highest standards for minority rights, women's rights, workers» rights, and the environment.

I've heard greens argue that we shouldn't even try to reach oil sands workers because they're just part of the colonial - settler assault on First Nations territory.