And the Coast Guard will also hear from BP and Transocean managers who were on the rig at the time of the blast.
The company's case is hardly helped by the fact that Robert Kaluza, BP's well manager on board the rig at the time of the disaster, has declined to testify in front of an investigation into it, pleading his fifth-amendment right to avoid self-incrimination.
Over the past week damning evidence has emerged, in documents detailing a settlement between Barclays and regulators in America and Britain, that employees at the bank and at several other unnamed banks tried to rig the number time and again over a period of at least five years.
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Repsol will be drilling in waters that are deeper than those in which the Deepwater Horizon rig operated at the time it exploded last year.
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This means if it took 15 days to drill before that now it takes 9 days, and instead of one rig working 90% of the time and punching 22 holes in a year, now 37 wells can be made.
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In this raw and vehement melodrama from 1980, Dennis Hopper, as director, gives himself the lead role of Don, a truck driver who is about to be released from prison, where he served time after drunkenly smashing his rig into a school bus.
Labor is desperate to rig the bargaining rules because most workers show time and again that they don't want a union.
Idle time had fallen to 24% of total rig days, from 34% in 2007.
But to really make things clear--and to give everyone confidence that drug companies aren't trying to pay off their critics or rig the regulatory process--maybe it's time for deeper disclosure.
And while there will be time to fully investigate what happened on that rig and hold responsible parties accountable, our focus now is on a fully coordinated, relentless response effort to stop the leak and prevent more damage to the Gulf.
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By this time, Barry was thinking about how he could rig things to get reelected in spite of his many failures.
At the same time, a massive Chinese-built semi-submersible oil rig has been dispatched from Singapore to a position off northwest Cuba, about 50 miles from Key West.
It's the largest such rig in the UK. The big idea is to simulate in real time and at full size the stresses which high speed trains inflict on their tracks.
Other documents reviewed by CNN seem to indicate that additional salaried workers may have been on the job that don't show up on time sheets, possibly refuting the committee's claim the rig was shortstaffed on April 20.
The wife of a laid-off oil-rig worker, who's used to him being away for weeks at a time, can't get a reprieve.
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But European Court of Justice rulings have had an impact on particular groups, such as doctors, oil rig workers and those whose job involves being "on call" for periods of time.
At that point, the rig calculates where light entered the polymer by measuring how much it has diminished during its travel time, and then composes an image from that data.
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