In California it can take weeks or even months to get approval for an oil rig.
The job replaced last year's loser, roustabout, also known as an oil rig worker.
One of Dee's friends was an Indian boy whose father worked on an oil rig.
Green activists fear an accident involving an oil rig or pipeline could ruin the sea.
Simulating a major fire on an oil rig for training purposes is not an easy thing to do.
In 1982, 84 people died in an oil rig disaster off Newfoundland, Canada.
It was on this date that an oil rig operated by British Petroleum in the Gulf of Mexico exploded.
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He worked as an oil rig worker off the Scottish coast but rented a room at the house in Churchfields.
The dangers of working on an oil rig have declined in recent decades, but the job can still be risky.
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The Deepwater Horizon accident, in which an oil rig exploded killing 11 people, caused one of the worst oil spills in history.
Management at Belfast shipyard Harland and Wolff say the firm's future may be in jeopardy unless a row over payment for an oil rig is resolved.
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At least two workers have died in an explosion on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, and at least four others are injured.
John McCain touts offshore drilling as a solution to producing more oil, and recently held a press conference on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico to make his point.
By 16, I was roughnecking on an oil rig.
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The report, by CareerCast, says being a reporter at a newspaper, magazine or TV show is worse than waiting tables and only a tiny bit less lousy than working on an oil rig.
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The U.S. official said two further Americans survived the four-day crisis at an insecure oil rig at the facility.
The decision came in a case concerning the physical and verbal abuse directed at Joseph Oncale, an oil-rig roustabout, by fellow male workers.
When an offshore oil rig is outdated, or can no longer cost-effectively pump oil, most countries require that the oil rigs be wholly decommissioned.
Chevron sunk an offshore oil rig in 1937 in 14 feet of water and by 1947 drillers were working on rigs out of sight of land.
The disaster began with an April 20 explosion aboard the oil rig Deepwater Horizon that left 11 men dead.
Bayou Perot was the scene of an explosion and fire on a specialized oil rig in December 2010 in which three men were injured.
She paused to tell stories about the trail and the area, pointing out an old rig that tried drilling for oil in the 1970s and describing the way the native plants have developed.
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.
The rig sank two days later, setting off an oil leak that has since released around 85, 000 barrels of oil into the Gulf.
The moratorium was imposed by President Obama on May 27 after the April 20 explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig off the coast of Louisiana triggered an underwater oil gusher.
The Deepwater Horizon rig was leased to oil giant BP to drill an exploratory well.
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The burn-off is part of the effort to prevent the spread of oil from an underwater well that was broken open when the drill rig Deepwater Horizon blew up and sank last week.
The Obama administration is looking for ways to improve the regulation of offshore drilling in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, which stemmed from an explosion in April on the Deepwater Horizon rig, operated by BP.
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In California, an offshore drilling rig stained the coast of Santa Barbara with more than 3 million gallons of crude oil.
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