There were virtually no spills when Hurricane Katrina blew away offshore oil rigs in 2005.
The moves by Ensco and Rowan, which operate offshore oil rigs, show how one company's effort to lower its tax rate can spur other shifts.
Called the CQS Rig Finance Fund, it's the world's first fund that invests in bonds sold by companies--many of them Norwegian--to build and upgrade offshore oil rigs.
Moreover, the data could be useful in determining safe noise limits for other ocean-based equipment as well, ranging from offshore oil rigs to wind turbines to ocean freighters.
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Controlled by the founding Swire family, the company's operations also include property development in Hong Kong, marketing and distribution of Coca Cola products in China and supplying offshore oil rigs.
Instead, these researchers claim, it would be both cheaper for oil companies and better for the environment if decommissioned offshore oil rigs were allowed to remain and be transformed into artificial reefs.
He dreamed up the Aviator after designing deep-diving suits for offshore oil rigs and submersibles for scientific research. (Titanic director James Cameron owns two craft that Hawkes designed.) Hawkes has worked for both military and private clients.
Hoffman, in this interview earlier in the said that he is an avid scuba diver and has found that some of the most amazing marine ecosystems in the world have established themselves around the steel structures of offshore oil rigs.
Several owners of small companies who provide a myriad of services to support offshore drilling in the Gulf, including those who ferry people and supplies to offshore oil rigs, went to federal court to enjoin the federal government from enforcing what they saw as an arbitrarily imposed moratorium.
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The report calls on the European Commission to extend the remit of the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) to cover safety inspections of offshore installations such as oil rigs.
Oilfield services companies provide the tools and equipment required in the exploration of oil including drilling rigs, offshore rigs and transport equipment.
After going public in 2005, the company today contracts offshore rigs and inland barges for oil and natural gas exploration focused in the Gulf of Mexico.
Meanwhile, almost untouched by the war, Congo-Brazzaville's 230, 000 barrels of oil per day keep flowing from the offshore rigs.
William was spotted more than two miles offshore in the Santa Barbara Channel, swimming toward oil rigs, according to an incident report.
Instead of secret bank accounts, entire secret banks: offshore data havens tucked into satellites or old dead oil rigs or blast-proofed caves outside Kandahar.
This at a time when permitting of offshore drilling has been slowed to a near halt, oil rigs are being displaced to foreign locations by government regulators, and vast land and ocean oil and gas reservoirs, including oil shale deposits, have been put off-limits altogether.
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.
But oil rigs aren't the only thing you can expect to see being built offshore.
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