The software interface is also familiar enough, offering piano-roll and block-style notations that most music production platforms have standardized around.

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Hornbeck, which provides transportation to offshore drilling rigs and production platforms, said its business was being unjustly interrupted by the moratorium.

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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.

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Local anger was most famously mobilised in the Ogoni area by opposition politician Ken Saro-Wiwa, but in all parts of the Delta protesters have blocked access roads, occupied production platforms and-on occasion-sabotaged pipelines.

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The drill ships and production platforms required to undertake such deep drilling are massive floating structures, much larger than the largest aircraft carriers and costing well over a half billion dollars (and close to a million dollars a day to rent).

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Production on these platforms has been reduced last week because restaffing and restart operations have been curtailed by Lee.

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Lundberg blamed the jump on reduced production from North Sea platforms, tensions among Iran, its Persian Gulf neighbors and Western powers and a dispute between Sudan and newly independent South Sudan that has cut off southern oil from global markets.

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He and Cuban established media company 2929 Entertainment, which has holdings across film, production, distribution and exhibition platforms.

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They all have global platforms and decent production.

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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.

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With a combined production capacity of more than 4m vehicles a year, Fiat will also get some vital scale economies for its platforms, powertrains and the electrical components made by its Magneti Marelli subsidiary.

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