From engine overhauls, to drilling out rivets to fixing faulty flaps, Boeing and Airbus-made passenger jet repairs are increasingly being done in third-world countries.
It has made agreements with the captains of Eskimo whaling boats to move drilling ships out of hunting grounds during the open-water period so they can hunt Bowhead whales.
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We may need to evacuate a drilling rig out in the Gulf of Mexico such as McMoRan, Energy XXI did with the approach of Hurricane Isaac earlier this summer.
Low oil prices had the company's drilling rigs pumping out losses.
Over the weekend The New York Times published this story on how the business of drilling natural gas out of shale is some sort of ponzi scheme, even Enron-like.
Structural metal workers and what the BLS calls extractive occupations (mining and drilling) round out the list of the top five most dangerous occupations, though neither group dies on the job at even half the rate of timber cutters.
There Browne began to take a harder look at the promise of deepwater drilling, largely out of necessity:He took charge of exploration and determined that Sohio's oil projects outside of Alaska were a mishmash of expensive properties that would never yield a proper profit.
One danger is that, as the oil slowly oozes out, it might leak into the ground water before a drilling rig can pump it out.
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It also turns out that drilling and completion is becoming almost exponentially more efficient.
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The plaintiffs say Texaco designed and carried out the drilling program so it is liable.
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Vale council rejected an application by Bridgend-based Coastal Oil and Gas to carry out exploratory drilling for shale gas at Llandow.
It's drilling down to find out what strains are being reported, see if they are close to the current vaccine and if not, determine if the vaccine needs to be changed to include new virus candidates.
In 1979, the worlds's worst oil spillage occurred as a result of a marine blow-out beneath the drilling rig Ixtoc 1 in the Gulf of Mexico.
That led to debarment from new federal contracts, which means that BP cannot take out any new drilling leases in the gulf until the ban is lifted.
And four out of 10 admitted drilling phonics in the week prior to the test.
He put that toward buying out a partner and drilling (and paid Enron back in eight months).
There are some reports that international drilling companies may move some equipment out, taking advantage of this moratorium.
Points out that he is drilling more on public lands than Bush did.
The well shaft previously drilled vertically is redirected to become horizontal, with the drilling continuing until the shaft stretches out horizontally about half a mile to a mile.
Tidewater does boats out to the offshore drilling platforms.
As the infrastructure and distribution network develops, we see more customers switching to natural gas, which will eventually help the companies attain sustainable profits out of shale gas drilling as the natural gas prices rise.
This is an appealing characteristic to the new Bureau of Ocean Energy Management as it strives to work out rules for future drilling in the Gulf that will provide safety and security for both rig workers and the environment.
The same goes for drilling operators who are signing contracts going out five to seven years.
But harnessing this power, by drilling deep holes into volcanoes, turns out to be dangerous business.
Combined with horizontal drilling, it allows access to formerly out-of-reach deposits and has opened large areas of the country for exploration.
We will participate in industry-wide efforts to improve the safety and reliability of subsea blow-out preventers and deep water drilling practices.
The new owners will begin drilling wells to pull the remaining hydrocarbons out of the ground in a cycle similar to what happened in the shallower waters of the Gulf of Mexico in the 1990s, Stone said.
Although Conoco Phillips wants to build a road bridge and pipeline over the Coleville River on the edge of NPRA to move drilling supplies in and oil and gas out, the Army Corps of Engineers, backed by environmental groups, said no.
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To placate conservatives, he promoted nuclear power and recently came out for more offshore oil-drilling.
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.
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