Sentences with phrase «sea oil platform»

In February, Elop issued a memo comparing the company to a person on a burning deep - sea oil platform.

Not exact matches

They removed from the plans a backup tube along the sea floor that would ensure the platform could keep pumping oil even if the main tube got clogged.

Total and Samsung Heavy said it was also not clear how the incident might affect delivery of the platform, which was expected to start producing oil and gas in the North Sea in 2018.

At BP's massive Thunder Horse oil platform in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, a dog - sized robot called Maggie uses magnetic tracks to creep along pipes connecting the giant oil facility to the sea floor.

A recent report also forecasted that nearly 150 oil platforms in the North Sea are scheduled to be decommissioned by 2026, as one in seven barrels there are produced at a loss, and around half of the 22 companies in the area are currently operating with significant deficits.

When I was involved in the investigation into the Piper Alpha disaster, when an explosion destroyed an Occidental Petroleum oil - drilling platform in the North Sea, killing 167 men in 1988.

Based on an analysis of three rogue waves observed at different oil platforms in the North Sea over the course of a decade, the research was scheduled to be reported June 21 in the journal Scientific Reports.

But unlike an oil platform, the floating wind turbine would have to better restrain the sea's pitch, roll and heaving motions.

Scotland's offshore oil platforms in the North Sea generate significant wealth for the nation — especially for the Shetland Islands, where oil tanker traffic boosts the local economy.

He worked as a diver on offshore oil platforms in the North Sea and the Gulf of Mexico.

Richard Wilson's famous installation places the viewer at the end of a small platform in a sea of oil, which eerily mirrors the interior architecture of the host gallery.

The video installations feature female sea creatures, similarly overwrought by their environments: one a mermaid expelling oil - like substances from a tangle of detritus; another, inspired by selfie videos shared on social media platforms, poses for the camera, her face and body layered with Snapchat - like filters and special effects.

In April 2014, Russia's Arctic oil drilling platform Prirazlomnaya, pictured here, loaded a tanker with the world's first major shipment of oil from above the Arctic Circle: 490,000 gallons from the Prirazlomnoye field in the Barents Sea, 38 miles off Russia's northwestern coast.

I can't help but wonder whether, years from now, I'll still be writing pieces with titles like «Destroying What Remains,» as the Navy continues its war - gaming in an ice - free summer Arctic amid a sea of offshore oil drilling platforms.

Unless we build offshore Oil platforms in the Barents and Kara seas...

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.

Originally invented to clean up the BP Oil Spill pulling long oil sorbent using wind power by Cesar Harada, Protei is now a platform technology to transport scientific payload and clean - up equipment at sea, developed by an global community of scientists, engineers, makers and sailoOil Spill pulling long oil sorbent using wind power by Cesar Harada, Protei is now a platform technology to transport scientific payload and clean - up equipment at sea, developed by an global community of scientists, engineers, makers and sailooil sorbent using wind power by Cesar Harada, Protei is now a platform technology to transport scientific payload and clean - up equipment at sea, developed by an global community of scientists, engineers, makers and sailors.

JOYCE: To work on or even visit a Norwegian oil and gas platform in the North Sea, you need a physical.

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.

Photo: An offshore gas platform operated by Statoil ASA in the Oseberg North Sea oil field 140 kilometers from Bergen, Norway.

This experience has been gained within a variety of industries (e.g.: Nuclear, Oil and Gas (Subsea - sea, Facilities, Pipeline, Pipe - lay, FPSO, Platforms, etc.), manufacturing, etc.).