In 2005, Katrina and Hurricane Rita destroyed 109 oil platforms and five drilling rigs.
Ms. THURSTON: All the offshore oil platforms evacuating on essential personnel because of Ike.
During Hurricanes Katrina and Rita three years ago, some 100 oil platforms and five drilling rigs were destroyed.
Katrina together with Hurricane Rita, which occurred in the same year, destroyed 109 oil platforms and five drilling rigs.
Even after a further degree in naval architecture she was allowed only to design huge oil platforms not to visit them.
He trained in river warfare units and served a 2006-2007 stint in Iraq guarding oil platforms, according to Pentagon records.
He trained in river-warfare units and and served a 2006-2007 stint in Iraq guarding oil platforms, according to Pentagon records.
Randy: People see the oil platforms in the Aegean sea and assume that Greece produces a lot of oil and natural gas.
If you take a look at the concentration of Saudi oil platforms you can safely assume that it will hit one of them!!!
But they can (and will) inflict serious damage and even destroy the oil platforms in the gulf even with our entire NAVY there to protect them.
Dorner retired on February 1 as a lieutenant, having worked with mobile inshore undersea warfare units and having provided security on oil platforms in Iraq, according to Pentagon records.
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Allen is the ruffian roustabout who left school at age 15 to support his family, moved to Alaska to work on the oil platforms, and eventually built his own business becoming the state's largest private employer and making a fortune.
Britain and Iraq announced last week that British troops would begin leaving Iraq in May 2009, while a "handful" of British military personnel would remain after that date to continue naval training for Iraqi sailors, primarily to protect oil platforms.
More hazardous still were fires out on oil platforms, such as the Bravo blowout in the North Sea in 1977 and the Piper Alpha disaster, off Aberdeen, in 1988, where the capping of the well had to be done in the face of mountainous seas.
Blue H, a wind-power company based in Britain, has developed a floating wind turbine based on designs first used by oil-drilling platforms.
This week, he announced that the part of the agency which permits oil and gas drilling and collects royalties will be separated from the part of the agency in charge of inspecting the safety of oil rigs and platforms and enforcing the law.
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He says he would reverse a recent decision by Petrobras, the state oil company, to buy drilling platforms from Singapore.
Those costs would only increase, possibly exponentially, in the event regulators responded to public concerns that further oil leaks might emanate from offshore platforms by cutting back on production in the Gulf of Mexico.
North Sea oil workers forced to remain on offshore platforms after last week's helicopter ditching are being picked up by boat.
Oil spills from container ships or offshore platforms are a frequent hazard to marine and coastal ecosystems and an expensive one to clean up.
"I was struck that high heels came about in the '30s during the Great Depression, and then there were all those crazy platforms in the '70s with the oil crisis, " she said.
Pride operates a worldwide fleet of more than 300 oil rigs--both land-based and on deepwater platforms and submersible rigs at sea.
The fields affected, and another eight associated platforms, produce about 10% of the UK's oil output.
But oil producers were happy to build (or buy) deep-water drilling platforms when those fields seemed economical.
In the 1960s it was hoped that the development of oil and gas would revive British manufacturing with orders for drilling rigs, production platforms and survey vessels.
Being land-based allows Pioneer to benefit from higher oil prices, but buffers them from the shutdowns and service interruptions that plague drillers on marine platforms.
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