Those arrangements are part of an agency program intended to forestall disputes with companies, including disagreements over the price paid by offshore units for patent and other intellectual property rights.

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It owns and operates a fleet of 59 offshore drilling units.

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More than 6, 300 vessels are currently responding on site, including skimmers, tugs, barges, and recovery vessels to assist in containment and cleanup efforts in addition to dozens of aircraft, remotely operated vehicles, and multiple mobile offshore drilling units.

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The offshore and engineering business builds floating units, fixed platforms, pipelines facilities and offshore installations.

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Siemens said the factory would employ 700 people making blades and turbine units for offshore wind farms.

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The company provides specialty products to the oil and gas industry through its four business units: well-site services, tubular services, offshore, and accommodations.

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The question for us and the challenge for us is get quicker and agile where smaller units can get to back-bay shallow areas, and work offshore to find smaller patches of oil and deal with them as quickly as we can moving forward.

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