Browne, 53, is a donnish, Cambridge-educated oil engineer who loves the opera, smokes Cuban cigars and collects Mapplethorpe photographs (of flowers, he is quick to point out) and 18th-century English furniture.
For marital happiness marry a coal miner, construction worker, oil platform engineer, farmer, etc.
That is sometimes easier said than done: the oil-company engineer willing to work only in comfy places is unlikely to thrive.
Former oil and gas refinery engineer Mr Dodson subsequently went bust and is now living with his son on state sickness benefits.
During the 1974 Mideast oil crisis, the American engineer Hewitt Crane, then working at S.R.
Until November 15, the only person charged in the BP oil spill had been an engineer for the company who was tasked with STOPPING the spill.
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After visiting the oil spill in June 2010, the young engineer decided to leave MIT in Boston to develop an open source oil spill cleaning robot, Protei.
In fact, German engineer Rudolph Diesel used peanut oil to demonstrate his invention at the 1900 World Exhibition in Paris.
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Louis Michaud, a Canadian engineer who works at a large oil company, believes he has devised a way to do just that, by generating artificial whirlwinds that can be controlled and harnessed.
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Oil companies could use it to let a semiretired engineer, lounging poolside with his laptop, help a roughneck fix a broken valve on a platform in the Gulf of Mexico.
Maridive, an offshore-oil-services contractor founded by an ex-navy commando and a petroleum engineer, built its expertise in Egypt's Gulf of Suez oilfields.
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"A leading engineer and manufacturer of high-quality, flexible pipeline products for oil and gas transportation in the susbsea production industry, " Wellstream's acquisition demonstrates a double interest by GE to both tap the deepwater drilling business and enter one of the world's most dynamic economies in the sector, Brazil.
Running an oil company is not easy, and the boss of Yukos, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a chemical engineer by training, has shown something of a flair for it.
Washington (CNN) -- A former BP engineer has been charged with destroying 200-plus text messages about the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, including one concluding that the undersea gusher was far worse than reported at the time.
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