These tune the rig to save power, run quietly (disable the fans), work efficiently or crank performance to 11, respectively.
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Transocean (RIG), which leased the rig to BP, and Haliburton (HAL), which provided services on the rig, have yet to settle.
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Then there were years of delays as Shell made improvements to the Kulluk rig to meet draconian EPA regulations on diesel emissions.
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We will also release a 30GB SSD twin-pack for PC gamers and enthusiasts who want to take performance of their rig to the next level.
Ten to thirteen additional targets have been identified and MMR has recently secured the use of a third Rowan rig to continue its exploration program.
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Because of the 20-mile limit, most of the Mexican trucks checked are short-hop rigs that pick up a load on the Mexican side and bring it across for an American rig to take onwards.
Non-essential staff were evacuated from the North Sea Producer, which is the closest rig to the incident, as a precaution, but it is not thought to be in any immediate danger of being struck by the drifting vessel.
His idea was that he might be able to rig the motor to a carriage.
The scandal that lead to these changes developed as regulators, prosecutors and politicians around the world followed allegations that bankers attempted to rig the rates to benefit their trading books and to paint a better picture of their financial health.
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In exchange for these kickbacks, the supervisors agreed to falsify contractor invoices and otherwise rig payments to allow contractors to overcharge Con Edison for construction work.
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The Sandinistas have also exploited their control of the government to rig the election process to their own benefit.
On the other hand, he has the commercial interests of the UK's banks and businesses to protect, and he fears that a more closely-knit eurozone would seek to rig the single market to the detriment of Britain.
According to this 2002 article in Offshore, the Deepwater Horizon was set to be outfitted with a system called E-drill, which continuously beams data from rig operations to a monitoring center in Houston.
Christian Bittar is under investigation by regulators as part of a group of traders who allegedly tried to rig interest rates, according to people familiar with the matter.
That was part of a broader downdraft in total worldwide rig count to 1, 800 from 2, 200.
By this time, Barry was thinking about how he could rig things to get reelected in spite of his many failures.
It required that as soon as Davy Jones was perforated and a flare came up the hole, the rig had to be backed away from the drilling platform.
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In the near term, production figures will continue to rise, even as rig counts start to fall.
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The answer, according to Mr Warner, is not to rig the rules of the auction but to use what could be a significant windfall for the Treasury to do something about those rural notspots.
In contravention of a public, competitive auction, Crusader conspired to rig the tax lien bidding by allocating certain liens to members of the conspiracy, thus ensuring that the prevailing bidder took the lien with an artificially higher interest rate than would likely have been derived from open competitive bidding.
Now, it didn't open until eight, which is feeding a lot of suspicion on the ground here, that there have been efforts to rig this election, that there've been efforts to nullify their votes - efforts on the part of the government, which, of course, is headed by the incumbent, President Mwai Kibaki.
In addition to owning the patent on the seven-bulb, 1200-watt lighting rig he uses to illuminate the sharks, he's developed a photo toning app and is busy helping establish an online photography school.
They buy boats that look as if they were extruded from the same hunk of plastic and gather at events like Antigua Sailing Week to brag about how they've cut a few pounds out of their rig by switching to carbon-fiber composites from aluminum.
That said, he will not do an investigation of precisely who was responsible for the sins of the past, such as the attempts to rig Libor, the misselling of PPI credit insurance and the inappropriate sales of complicated financial products such as swaps to small businesses.
The blowout preventer's control pod, which was also originally connected to the lost rig, has been taken up to the Q4000, where it has been tested and attached to new cables.
Japanese truck drivers, in fact, have been mobile-phone trendsetters, relying on the phones to call headquarters instead of searching for big-rig parking spaces next to public telephones.
The bank's top management team disintegrated last summer after it admitted trying to rig interest rates.
But the third answer is more brutal: to rig the market in some way.
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