In the 17th century an ingenious smoker came up with the pipe tamper, or stopper, as it's known in England, a tool for pressing down lit tobacco in the pipe's bowl.
As early as five hours before the explosion drillers noticed unexpected loss of fluid in the riser pipe, indicating leaks in a part of the blowout preventer.
When Palin was Governor of Alaska, the state received money for the oil going in to the pipe line.
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Allen said that in preparation for the storm, crews had pulled the drill string out, put a plug known as a "packer" in the casing pipe and filled the riser with seawater so the pipe would be stable.
In its update yesterday, McMoran says it is injecting a barite solvent to clean out the perforations, or holes in the drill pipe, through which the gas will flow.
The corrosive nature of the ground soil and pressures from a nearby brick wall and telecom unit may have caused a fracture in the cast iron mains pipe, the HSE said in its report.
Britain's hopes of grabbing a medal in the half-pipe event ended when Lesley McKenna was eliminated in the qualification stages.
Elsewhere in Belfast, the Army defused two pipe bombs in the Short Strand area in the east of the city.
The leak was caused by cracks forming on the pipe in an area where the waterproofing tape had pulled away and the pipe was corroding, investigators said.
During a routine run in 1986 a few days after the Chernobyl fire, one of the pebbles became lodged in a pipe feeding the fuel to the reactor.
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We understand the urge to take a quick snap of a show to prove that you were there -- all those "likes" and comments on Instagram are like the crack in the aforementioned crack pipe -- but must you hold your iPhone above your head the entire show, blindly shooting into the ether?
In 2002 he qualified for the Olympic team and went on to win a gold medal in the half-pipe competition in Salt Lake City.
One ROV got a saw lodged in the side of the leaking riser pipe in early June, for example, causing BP to rethink its strategy for trying to stop the gushing leak.
"I worry sometimes that I'll be like parents who lived through the Depression, saving old pipe in the basement, " he says.
Madoff was found by his father-in-law hanging from a ceiling pipe in the living room of his SoHo loft.
Right now, the people who own the phone and cable lines that pipe in the internet to our homes have a neutral stance on how these websites are transmitted, but the times may be changing.
Three competitors in America accused the company in August 2011 of evading duties by trans-shipping drill pipe through its plant in the UAE.
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We know with some certainty that workers were in the final stages of setting the final sections of pipe (production liner) in the hole and cementing it in place.
So as I write, I am in an outdoor lounge on my third martini, smoking a water pipe in the Atlantis hotel in Dubai.
The previous route of the Keystone pipeline would have crossed the U.S. border in Montana, shortcutting an existing pipe that enters the United States in North Dakota.
Firefighters were called Saturday to the residential building in the Pujiang area of the eastern Zhejiang province city of Jinhua to rescue a baby trapped in the L-joint of a sewage pipe just below a squat toilet in one of the building's public restrooms.
Thus, the primary issue in the case is whether Cuban entered into an agreement with the company to maintain the confidentiality of the PIPE and not to sell his shares in Mamma.com during the course of these conversations.
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For investors in NIR Group funds, however, the most troubling disclosure in the litigation is that on Tuesday PIPE Equity wrote down its NIR assets down to 30 cents on the dollar.
Sproule said Nissan took a cue from super markets in the U.K. that pipe in a fresh bread smell.
The boy hopped in the snowed-in family car to warm up, but the engine was running and the exhaust pipe was blocked by snow, causing carbon monoxide to accumulate in the car.
Inside the riser pipe is a space about half a meter in diameter, large enough to hold the spinning drill pipe and bit and to allow the return flow of drilling fluid.
Dimmitt recalls "ashtrays in church pews, smoking in the classroom and blowing pipe smoke all over the students!"
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