In 2005, Katrina and Hurricane Rita destroyed 109 oil platforms and five drilling rigs.
Many Louisianans fret that Gulf-based drilling rigs will decamp for West Africa or Brazil.
Some make and sell expensive kit for use on drilling rigs or the seabed.
Weatherford has half its 50 drilling rigs in the Middle East and operates dozens more for clients.
"We stopped spending money on stuff, whether drilling rigs or refineries or terminals or pipelines, " he says.
The company controls 48 deep water drilling rigs and currently has about a 7.5% dividend yield.
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On drilling rigs and in oil-sands mines a small mistake can easily result in injury or death.
During Hurricanes Katrina and Rita three years ago, some 100 oil platforms and five drilling rigs were destroyed.
Promised Land is a movie about what happens before the drilling rigs and man camps rumble into town.
Signal provides new construction and repairs to offshore drilling rigs and ship components for the Navy and Coast Guard.
Katrina together with Hurricane Rita, which occurred in the same year, destroyed 109 oil platforms and five drilling rigs.
There are also hundreds of offshore drilling rigs, and the number is growing.
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Now hundreds of Fort Worthians are setting up drilling rigs in backyards, near churches, city buildings and even schools.
Consequently, most of their drilling rigs are powered by diesel as access to electricity is expensive and at times impossible.
Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell and Noble Corp. have teamed up to design and build two innovative new deepwater drilling rigs.
Hornbeck, which provides transportation to offshore drilling rigs and production platforms, said its business was being unjustly interrupted by the moratorium.
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Although you do notice it at night because the drilling rigs, the derricks, are lit up and you can drive in.
Oilfield services companies provide the tools and equipment required in the exploration of oil including drilling rigs, offshore rigs and transport equipment.
The same boom has brought drilling rigs, and the fears of air and water pollution that accompany them, into densely-populated urban areas.
Long lead times persist for oil drilling rigs, mining equipment and some other specialized machinery, but generally companies face no supply limitations when considering expansion.
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"Drilling onshore in Turkey is like going back in time 50 years, " says Mitchell, who has brought over his own modern drilling rigs and tools.
Low oil prices had the company's drilling rigs pumping out losses.
The sea around northern Sakhalin, in which the project's offshore drilling rigs stand, freezes for half the year and is home to a rare whale.
Since 2004 Saudi Aramco has been fighting declining oil output from megafields like 70-billion-barrel Ghawar by doubling the number of drilling rigs to 120 this year.
The number of drilling rigs poking holes in the world is at a high not seen in 20 years--up from 1, 200 in 1999 to 3, 000 now.
The resulting market would send valuable price signals about what kind of homes, airplanes, highways, drilling rigs, factories and insulation we should be investing in today.
Also, Secretary Salazar has ordered immediate inspections of all of our deep -- all of the deepwater drilling rigs and platforms in the Gulf of Mexico.
In the 1960s it was hoped that the development of oil and gas would revive British manufacturing with orders for drilling rigs, production platforms and survey vessels.
In addition, he said, blowout preventers the giant emergency shut-off valves that failed on the Deepwater Horizon are located aboard drilling rigs in shallow-water operations, not on the seafloor.
Drilling rigs are 40m (130ft) high, the plant would take 12 months to build and take up an acre during that time and half an acre after.
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