Sentences with phrase «rig workers in»

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

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A company called Industrial Training International recently unveiled a new VR rig that allows workers to operate realistic crane controls in an immersive VR simulation.

Publicly traded oil companies have lost billions in market value, and both public and private firms are moving aggressively to cut capital spending budgets for 2015 — laying off thousands of workers and shutting down hundreds of rigs.

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 technologin 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 technologin 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 technologIn 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.

A year after the bear market in crude began, oil companies have cut workers, are using fewer rigs and have less money to spend.

We ran into one cyclical recession in the» 70's, and the Republicans seized on it as an excuse to rig government and society for the benefit of people who are already rich, while taking away opportunities from everyone else... then they crushed the unions so that workers would never be able to get back better pay and better job security, while investors make more and more and pay less and less in taxes.

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.

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».

I remember the reality of work - away fathers during the 1980s, whether it was tradesmen to Europe or, more commonly in my part of the world, oil workers out to the North Sea rigs or to the Middle East.

NASA sends a team of wisecracking oil - rig workers (including a grimacing Bruce Willis) to plant a bomb that will split it in half so that the two separating chunks will miss Earth, save the day, and allow the boy to get the girl.

Whether that be the 11 workers killed in the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion, the more than 70 cleaners sickened by the aftermath, or the thousands of Nigerians killed directly or indirectly by our unquenchable thirst for petroleum.

However, it's not clear whether the respiratory problems reported by the workers in the study are likely to crop up in the 50,000 people who have helped clean up the spill in the Gulf of Mexico caused by the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig.

The man claimed to be an oil rig worker from the UK and showed his interest in the woman by sending her...

The scene in question occurs early in Man of Steel, when Clark Kent saves stranded workers from a burning oil rig.

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.

Mark Wahlberg and Kurt Russell star in the action thriller Deepwater Horizon (2016, PG - 13), about the workers trying to survive the oil rig disaster.

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.

Wahlberg, stern and focused throughout, never flinches at the mounting danger as he hurtles through the smoky hallways in an effort to save as many people as possible — although he's mostly focused on saving terrified rig worker Andrea Fleyta (Gina Rodriguez, eyes bulging on cue), whose sole purpose is to give Wahlberg's character the opportunity for a selfless act.

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

I'm letting Dot Earth lie silent today to recall the lives of the 11 workers who died on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico one year ago.

America watched helplessly as millions of barrels of oil gushed into the Gulf of Mexico for months, costing millions of dollars in environmental and health damages, and taking the lives of 11 workers who died in the oil rig explosion.

The people of the Gulf Coast, the oil industry, and the environment dodged a bullet, because the woefully inadequate, even counterproductive cleanup measures that were in place during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster have not been improved since that catastrophe killed eleven rig workers and ravaged human health and the environment throughout the region.

That same week, BP's oil rig in the Gulf had exploded, killing 11 workers and unleashing the biggest environmental catastrophe in U.S. history.

While rescuers searched for 11 missing offshore oil workers off the coast of Louisiana, the flaming, tilting rig they were on sank Thursday morning in the Gulf of Mexico, the Coast Guard said.

Around this time one year ago, reports were trickling in that an oil rig owned by BP in the Gulf of Mexico had suffered a major explosion, and that over a dozen workers were missing.

These rights often entitle an injured oil rig worker to financial compensation for accidents occurring onboard a vessel or in a shipyard.

The most recent data gathered by the BLS found 4,200 recorded oil rig accident cases in 2007, which is 4.6 out of every 100 workers - most of whom were men.

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.

Professional truck drivers, along with people in other industries like oil rig workers, are exposed to a high level of danger in order to provide a necessary service to American society.

Following the April 20 explosion off the coast of Louisiana that killed several oil rig workers, families of the deceased and some of the workers who survived the accident have filed wrongful death or personal injury lawsuits against companies involved in the offshore drilling operation.

The fatal fall resulted from the worker being hit in the chest with a pipe from a drill rig.

In addition she has handled: • Corporate governance policies including indigenous community relations, social and training programmes; • Company secretarial: drafting board documentation, running board meetings, and incorporating subsidiaries; • Investor relations including the delisting of company from AIM, warrant and option issue; performance bonds, preparation of annual reports; • Government relations; • Supplier contracts, PSC's, JOA's, joint venture agreements, farm out agreements, employment; • Equipment licensing including offshore drilling rigs and an FPSO; • Defending an arbitration claim; • Crisis management when her company's oil rig workers were kidnapped three times.

More recent cases include the firm's representation of thousands of clean - up workers and Gulf Coast residents who were physically or financially harmed by BP Oil Company's wrongdoing, which resulted in the explosion of BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig, causing the worst oil spill in U.S. history.

Recovered # 750,000.00 for an oil rig worker who was injured on an oil rig in Africa.

The facts were simply that these workers worked two weeks on the rigs (12 hours per day) and then had two weeks on - shore («field breaks») during most of which time they had no work to do for the employer (but during which their contracts remained in force).

The Supreme Court have determined the final appeal in Russell v Transocean International Rescue Ltd [2011] UKSC 57, [2011] All ER (D) 53 (Dec), a test case for the application of the statutory holiday provisions to workers on offshore rigs, which also raised a point of principle in relation to the application of those provisions more widely.

In Seafarers» International Union of Canada and Dome Petroleum Ltd., the CIRB used that rationale to allow a trade union access to workers on the employer's offshore oil rigs and vessels.

You may also need additional liability coverage if the materials your workers transport is hazardous, or if your employees or contractors drive big rigs that can do millions of dollars - worth of damage in an accident.

Oil rig workers and members of the Royal Navy can spend weeks or months working off shore or abroad in... (continued)

We were locally impacted as field workers Roughnecks on a drilling rig in Greely, CO use metal tongs weighing hundreds of pounds to make connections between 30» sections of drill pipe.