And in Venezuela, Hugo Chavez just recently nationalized 11 oil rigs belonging to a U.S. company.
But oil rigs aren't the only thing you can expect to see being built offshore.
There were virtually no spills when Hurricane Katrina blew away offshore oil rigs in 2005.
We're passing small mounds of waste, oil rigs and miles of brown, patchy wetlands.
Falsified safety inspections of Gulf oil rigs were reported in another government study.
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After taking a degree in mechanical engineering, she wanted to work on oil rigs.
His father told him to revive or dump a Tulsa company that made equipment for oil rigs.
In Katrina's aftermath a lot of attention has gone to restoring the Gulf of Mexico's oil rigs.
Have you ever had any creative thoughts on how to make good use out of decommissioned oil rigs?
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His father told him to revive or dump a Tulsa, Oklahoma company that made equipment for oil rigs.
If you saw, we did some video out on the oil rigs last week when I was out there.
Her father worked on oil rigs and farms through most of the Depression.
It's hard and dirty work, and in the labor hierarchy of oil rigs, roustabouts are a notch below roughnecks.
Oil output fell because of essential maintenance being carried out on oil rigs.
On his watch, he says, the number of operating oil rigs has quadrupled and production has reached an eight-year high.
Pride operates a worldwide fleet of more than 300 oil rigs--both land-based and on deepwater platforms and submersible rigs at sea.
Stuxnet is tailored to target weaknesses in Siemens systems used to manage water supplies, oil rigs, power plants and other utilities.
There have been one or two high-profile disputes in recent years: a long-running one concerned representation on North Sea oil rigs.
William was spotted more than two miles offshore in the Santa Barbara Channel, swimming toward oil rigs, according to an incident report.
When oil and Africa are mentioned in the same sentence, thoughts automatically jump to oil rigs dotting the landscapes of Nigeria and Libya.
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When an offshore oil rig is outdated, or can no longer cost-effectively pump oil, most countries require that the oil rigs be wholly decommissioned.
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.
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.
His bank sells them mortgage loans, another outfit makes the tiles that cover their kitchen floors and his oil rigs find the fuel that heats their homes.
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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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.
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.
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