Sentence examples for aboard the rig from inspiring English sources

The 18 workers aboard the rig were evacuated by Coast Guard helicopters on Saturday.

Lawyers for the oil companies aboard the rig say the cancellations were thwarting their efforts to assign responsibility.

The April 20 , 2010 explosion and fire aboard the rig killed 11 men and injured 16 others.

Many were top-ranking officials aboard the rig, with critical roles in decisions that may have contributed to the disaster.

Russia's security services have claimed that employees aboard the rig mistook Greenpeace's launch boat for an explosive device.

In addition, the Justice Department has charged two senior officials aboard the rig with manslaughter, and a third company official with obstructing a Congressional investigation.

The government charged the top BP officers aboard the drilling rig, Robert Kaluza and Donald Vidrine, with manslaughter in connection with each man who died, contending that the officials were negligent in supervising tests to seal the well.

BP's Macondo well erupted on April 20, causing an explosion aboard the drilling rig that killed 11 men and led to the spill of nearly five million barrels of oil, some of which still befouls the gulf shoreline.

BP admitted today its managers on the Deepwater Horizon missed key warning signs in the hours before the explosion aboard the oil rig, but an internal investigation put much of the blame on other companies involved in the well.

However you react to his answer, lawyers like Buzbee need a big wrong to make their business model a success, which is why his current project revolves around the offshore explosion aboard BP's Deepwater Horizon, which killed 11 people aboard the floating rig and released an estimated 200 million gallons of crude into the Gulf of Mexico.

But the report noted: "Disruptions in the ecosystem caused by the oil spill could impair these services, leading to economic and social impacts that may not be apparent from an assessment of environmental damage alone". The April 2010 explosion killed 11 workers aboard the oil rig, and spewed more than 4m barrels of oil into the Gulf, according to the US government's estimate.