Sentences with phrase «on drilling platforms»

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

Piping Foremen coordinate teams responsible for installing pipes on a drilling platform.

Not exact matches

After a period of prolonged low oil prices, many offshore drillers are focusing on tying new wells in the Gulf of Mexico to existing infrastructure, rather than investing billions in new offshore platforms, he said.

When he is in France and on sports platforms, he is constantly drilled about his transfer policy and management (rarely the case here... They seems impressed, by what, I can not put my finger on it)...!!

She points out that nearly all of the politicians elected in the state's Southern Tier in the November elections are pro gas drilling, including a congressional race where the losing candidate, Democrat Martha Roberts ran on an anti fracking platform.

She points out that nearly all of the politicians elected in the state's Southern Tier in the November elections are pro gas drilling, including a congressional race where the losing candidate, Democrat Martha Roberts ran on an anti-fracking platform.

Given what's happened since the Deepwater Horizon drill platform exploded on 20 April, the claim that things couldn't get worse in the Gulf of Mexico seems pretty dicey.

For example, Timothy Collett of the U.S. Geological Survey in Denver proposed to save the cost of pipelines by liquefying the gas on ships or drilling platforms.

«If the pressure was too great and the right precautions not taken, the well could have blown and even set the drill platform on fire,» Bueno recalls.

From June 2010 through June 2013 there were four mass strandings of dead dolphins on Gulf coast beaches stretching from the Texas — Louisiana border into Florida — three after the beginning of the disaster on the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform that saw BP's Macondo well blow out.

This month, from a drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico, scientists will try to sink a diamond - tipped bit into the heart of Chicxulub crater — the buried remnant of the asteroid impact 66 million years ago that killed off the dinosaurs and most other life on Earth.

Watching Kirk (Chris Pine) and Sulu (John Cho) execute an orbital dive to a drilling platform on planet Vulcan.

Other drilling platforms stand above the sea surface on legs that are rooted in the seafloor.

More than 750 UT vessel designs are in service or on order for demanding roles in the exploration and production sector including anchor - handling, cable - laying and seismic surveys as well as drilling, platform supply and multi-purpose duties.

This alignment on the Single Leg Deadlift will be challenging at first but will assure a strong platform to pull from, as this is the next step in the drill.

March 31, 2010 • President Obama's reversal of a ban on drilling off most U.S. shores could put new oil and natural gas platforms in waters along the southern Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and part of Alaska.

With media interest and public support behind him, Pryce is poised to make a run for Senate on an eco-friendly platform that seeks to abolish oil drilling altogether — something that doesn't sit too well with his ambitious wife Deborah (Connie Nielsen), who's lined up potential big business financial support for his campaign in the form of oil exec Mark Lavin (Bryan Batt).

Ensconced in their bubble, the characters are indifferent to the news on their touch screens: a Category 5 hurricane hits Rhode Island; oil platforms are drilling on the site of the former Arctic ice cap.

The news that Chesapeake planned to increase the number of platforms to over 15 rigs from 10 and the shift to more on pad drilling at Eagle Ford and Marcellus are both in line with goals of growing and increasing margins.

The current operator of the drilling platform, along with the other three platforms on the Dos Cuadras field, is the private firm DCOR LLC, of Ventura, California.

The least - liked were The Men's Machine Gun Platform (no surprise there - 55 votes), The Oneechanpon (Oneechanbara games often show up in both rankings - 10 votes), The Pirate (7 votes), The Right - Brain Drill (D3's half - hearted attempt to cash in on the brain - training craze - 2 votes), and The Tennis (PSP - 2 votes).

Igor Levit will play on a stage of Marina Abramovic's devising: a motorized platform that slowly moves from the far side of the Drill Hall to the center, then turns a single revolution as Levit goes through Bach's 30 variations.»

The white speck on the lake is the sediment - core drilling platform.

The options on the table include drilling a relief well, the safest but also slow and costly, and pumping heavy mud into the stricken well from the platform itself, faster but far more dangerous.

Under the regulations, monitoring of well safety would shift from being located on - site — at the offshore drilling platform — to being stationed at onshore electronic observation centers.

Wolf campaigned on a platform of instituting a 5 percent extraction tax on oil and gas drilling in Pennsylvania, arguing that the money raised — an estimated $ 1 billion annually — would help boost state education funding.

On the night of Tuesday, April 20, an explosion rocked an offshore drilling platform, launching an intense effort to fight the ensuing fires and find the 11 people that went missing after the accident.

While the animal's nipping beak seems to have had little discouraging effect on the platform worker, as an observer it's hard not to interpret the turtle's actions as a simple rebuke against the whole hazardous practice of underwater drilling.

Reversing a ban on oil drilling off most U.S. shores, President Obama announced an expansive new policy that could put oil and natural gas platforms in waters along the Atlantic coastline, the Gulf of Mexico and part of Alaska.

The efforts of Greenpeace to halt the drilling for oil, off of the Arctic coast of Greenland, suffered a double setback yesterday, when its protesters were evicted from the Cairn Energy drilling platform - and then the oil company slapped a lawsuit on Greenpeace, through the Dutch authorities.

Most of these maritime accidents occurred on oil drilling platforms, passenger ships and freighters.

These occupations include offshore workers on drilling rigs, production platforms, workers who work on barges and workers who are traveling between land locations in connection with their work.

Due to the 2010 explosion and fire on the BP Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling platform, people and companies dependent on gulf coast businesses are experiencing serious financial challenges.