Sentence examples for an offshore rig from inspiring English sources

An explosion on an offshore rig killed 11 workers and ruptured a deep-sea well head, which took 84 days to seal.

The spill followed the April 2010 explosion on an offshore rig that killed 11 workers.

We had a turnaround ahead, another 20-mile run to an offshore rig.

I heard a distant rumbling and realized that an offshore rig was pumping sand onto the beach just down from where I was.

Rigs are in high demand; rigs cost at least $15 million, and an offshore rig can cost more than $95 million.

The design's tolerance of fuel quality has been demonstrated by an offshore rig installation running on crude oil direct from the well after degassing.

Her son Jason, who quit banking to oversee Jakes, commandeers the skiff Mr. Nice Guy for a voyage to the Pelican Bar, a flimsy offshore rig that has somehow survived his 40th-birthday blowout and a hurricane.

A mobile offshore rig like the Deepwater Horizon presents a particularly thorny legal problem.

Production from an ice-resistant offshore rig perched in the Pechora passed 43,980 barrels of oil per day (bpd), the company said.

More than a dozen offshore rigs, the highest number in more than a decade, have been towed into the Scottish Firth as the plunge in crude prices has all but killed off North Sea exploration.

Since then, gunmen have attacked an offshore oil rig and seized hostages, including two Americans.