Horton is considering new methods for building offshore platforms that will hold wind turbines.
North Sea oil workers forced to remain on offshore platforms after last week's helicopter ditching are being picked up by boat.
And in the meantime, we have a thousand offshore platforms or mobile rigs in operation producing 30 percent of our domestic energy supply.
Oil spills from container ships or offshore platforms are a frequent hazard to marine and coastal ecosystems and an expensive one to clean up.
This executive said many U.S. forex dealers currently use offshore platforms and affiliates for segregation of funds in the UK for asset protection purposes.
As soon as a helicopter goes beyond the 80-mile zone covered by land-based radar, its signal is picked up by the offshore platforms, with the data then returned to the airport.
So if this forex broker says its U.S. retail forex traders using offshore platforms from its affiliates have more time to close accounts, that may not be true in my view.
Under the deal, Wood Group PSN (WGPSN) will continue to provide engineering, procurement, construction and services to Total's Alwyn, Dunbar, Elgin and Franklin offshore platforms and the St Fergus onshore gas plant.
Those costs would only increase, possibly exponentially, in the event regulators responded to public concerns that further oil leaks might emanate from offshore platforms by cutting back on production in the Gulf of Mexico.
For example, the State Department concluded that if Keystone XL is not built, oil sands production will be diverted to other markets (such as China), and the refineries in Texas will continue to process bitumen apace from offshore platforms.
FORBES: If U.S. Says No To Canadian Oil Sands Pipeline, China Will Say Yes
Mr. DANIEL YERGIN (Cambridge Energy Research Associates): When people build offshore platforms, they build them for a hundred-year storm. 2005 was a year that you had not one but two hundred-year storms within a matter of weeks of each other, and the result was one of the biggest energy shocks since the 1970s.
Ms. THURSTON: All the offshore oil platforms evacuating on essential personnel because of Ike.
Nothing in these CFTC documents specifically exempts offshore forex platforms or brokers from these new rules, either.
Hurricane Katrina and other storms in 2005 blew away offshore drilling platforms--and there were no spills to speak of.
Tidewater does boats out to the offshore drilling platforms.
The offshore and engineering business builds floating units, fixed platforms, pipelines facilities and offshore installations.
Hornbeck, which provides transportation to offshore drilling rigs and production platforms, said its business was being unjustly interrupted by the moratorium.
FORBES: An Injunction Against the Deepwater Drilling Moratorium
But it included long 'to do' lists to make sure old platforms, operating in very challenging corrosive conditions, are not putting offshore workers or the environment at risk.
Trade on CFTC-sanctioned foreign OTC platforms respecting CFTC rules on LIFO and perhaps 10:1 leverage or take their chances in offshore tax havens.
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