Sentences with phrase «using oil rigs»

Seasteaders could, for instance, buy a used oil rig that can operate in 3,000 - to 6,000 - foot - deep water for about $ 100 million.

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Terex (TEX), which makes heavy equipment used on oil rigs and in mines, fell into this latter category.

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.

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

When you pay for a high - priced oil rig it gets put to use.

Here's a fascinating use of a crowdsourcing technology called Ushahidi, originally developed to track election violence in Kenya: as the Times reports, a group called the Louisiana Bucket Brigade is employing the distributed reporting tool to let local citizens help track the fallout from the rig explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Two additional experiments used only ensemble displays, showing oil rigs at different distances from the storm's center and either on or between forecast lines.

There are also indications that BP and Transocean, the owner of the Deepwater Horizon rig that burned and sank, could have used backup safety gear — a remote acoustic switch that would stanch the flow of oil from a leaking well 5,000 feet underwater — to prevent the massive spill now floating like a slow - motion train wreck toward the Mississippi and Louisiana coastline.

The developers foresee uses in oil rigs and for ship repair.

«Today, cognitive undersea acoustics is a key wireless communication technology that can be used for a wide range of military, commercial, and scientific applications, including tactical surveillance, offshore exploration, monitoring of subsea machinery such as oil - rigs and pipelines, disaster prevention as well as the study of marine life,» said Stella N. Batalama, Ph.D., principal investigator and dean of FAU's College of Engineering and Computer Science, who is collaborating with Dimitris Pados, Ph.D., co-principal investigator, professor in FAU's Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and I - SENSE Fellow.

For example, the use of spatial zoning to reduce the overlap of fisheries, oil rigs and shipping lanes with areas of the ocean used by penguins; the use of appropriate fishing methods to reduce the accidental bycatch of penguins and other species; and, the use of ecologically based fisheries harvesting rules to limit the allowable catches taken by fishermen, particularly where they target species that are also food for penguins.»

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 seismometers.

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.

Petroleum jelly was originally found in the bottom of oil rigs and is further refined for use in the beauty industry.

One of CAT's sustainability activities uses picture cards showing different stages of the production chain such as factories, woodlands or oil rigs to investigate familiar products such as chocolate eggs or mobile phones.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

I hate crawling under the car and removing the belly pan (pain) and getting oil dripped on me (also a pain) so I rigged up an extractor using a small electric vacuum pump and a 2 gallon drop - out can.

This 1947 WDX Power Wagon was used by an oil rigging company long ago.

Report: 4 of 4 Previous reports: Sept.» 08, Jan.» 09, Apr.»09 Base price: $ 31,450 Price as tested: $ 36,020 Four - wheel - drive system: Two - speed, part - time electronic shift on the fly Long - Term Numbers Miles to date: 23,315 Miles since last report: 7,288 Average mpg (this report): 13.33 Test best tank (mpg): 17.18 Test worst tank (mpg): 8.25 (towing) Maintenance Oil change: $ 62.15 Mid-service: $ 132.50 Problem areas: Warped front rotors, some squeaks and creaks What's Hot, What's Not Hot: Awesome power, exhaust note, features, storage, fine tow rig Not: Interior quality not as good as competition, aggressive traction control, some squeaks and rattles Logbook Quotes * «King Cab is a great size for a personal - use truck, but if you want to put real people back there, get the Crew.»

Watching the sun rise and set in a matter of moments from the perspective of an oil rig is an unparalleled visual gaming experience, and though the environments are low - poly the effective use of an eerie modern synthetic score (from composer Ben Lukas Boysen) and a soft color palette contribute to the overwhelming sense of calm that pervades Everything.

Jane and Louise Wilson's work together includes multiscreen video installations and photo - pieces; their artworks often feature institutional spaces, for example an oil rig, the archives of the Stasi in East Berlin (the building had previously been used by the Nazis and Stalin's Russia), The Houses of Parliament, and the Apollo Pavilion in Peterlee designed by Victor Pasmore.

The researchers hope that their study of this bird's unique abilities will help create a robotic vehicle that can be used to inspect underwater oil pipelines after flying out to remote oil rigs, or for «counter-terrorism purposes.»

Using the world's most authoritative database of oil rig accidents, a Norwegian company, Det Norske Veritas, focused on some 15,000 wells drilled off North America and in the North Sea from 1980 to 2006.

A sign of a true «all - of - the - above» energy policy, one Dallas energy firm is using a solar generator to power oil and natural gas rigs in West Texas.

Last year, the environmental organization used the Arctic Sunrise to board a Gazprom oil rig.

Last year Dr Nisbet's team used isotopic analysis and weather models to trace a cloud of methane over the North Sea not to one of its many oil rigs but to cows in the county of Lincolnshire.

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Today, Greenpeace protests Russian and American oil rigs with 3000 HP diesel - powered ships and uses 200 HP outboard motors to board the rigs and hang anti-oil plastic banners made with fossil fuels.

Risk is our business: Among other things, we reinsure the risks connected with oil rigs, satellites and natural catastrophes, and those arising from the use of genetic engineering and information technology or from the management of companies.

When an oil production platform caught fire in the Gulf of Mexico near the Louisiana coast last week, a collective gasp would have been appropriate — from the residents of coastal Louisiana, who are no strangers to offshore oil rig disasters, from the fossil fuel industry, which is priming itself for a golden age under the incoming Trump Administration, and from the American public, whose oil reliance remains unchecked despite increasing awareness of both the massive downside of fossil fuel use and the increasing availability of clean, renewable energy sources.

You're a professional earth scientist: what do you use to date strata brought up from oil rigs?

There's plenty of that to see along one of the country's most heavily used coastlines: power plants, bustling cargo ports, a wastewater treatment plant, oil «islands» covering underwater drilling rigs, even the prison that once housed Charles Manson and Al Capone.

I have stayed away from many debates, but surely the pro-nuclear excessive extremism «civilisation - will - collapse - without - nuclear» expressed on the earlier thread, and the notion of «sufficient safety» seem to underlay exactly the same sort of mentality used by the tobacco lobby and BP oil - rig engineers.

This white paper, authored by Dr. Brian Piper, details volatility in price, rigs, production jobs and median earnings in the oil and gas field between 2000 and 2016, and the methods that should be used to calculate base wages and wage growth.

Sable Offshore Energy Inc. et al. v. Ameron International Corp. et al. 2013 SCC 37 Practice — Discovery — What documents must be produced — Settlement documents and other agreements The plaintiffs» oil rig was painted using paint manufactured by the Ameron defendants.

There are fantastic potential developments in drone use, such as crime prevention, fire detection and control, search and rescue, scientific research, inspection of industrial structures (oil rigs, power plants, pylons and power lines), media and journalism and creative and artistic projects.

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.

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