Sentence examples for burning rig from inspiring English sources
Efforts to contain the damage from the burning rig became profoundly more complicated when it sank, leaving a one-by-five-mile sheen of what the authorities said was "crude oil mix".
We tend to think of oil spills as dramatic events — a sinking ship, a burning rig.
As one of the last people on the burning rig when he hurled himself into the water to safety, he would serve as the audience's entry into a complicated world.
The technological breakthrough came 87 days into the crisis, which began with the April 20 blowout that killed 11 workers and sent the burning rig Deepwater Horizon to the bottom of the gulf.
In a leaked memorandum this year, Mr. Elop compared the company's predicament — trying to catch up with Apple and Google — to that of a man standing on a burning oil rig at sea.
When the work begins, under protest, it soon becomes clear there are major problems at play, and soon men are fighting for their lives on a burning oil rig in the middle of the sea.
In a memo to Nokia employees, Stephen Elop, the new chief executive, compared its predicament in trying to catch up to Apple and Google in smartphones to that of a man, in a story, who was standing on a burning oil rig at sea. "The man was standing upon a 'burning platform,' and he needed to make a choice," Mr. Elop wrote in the memo, which was widely circulated on the Internet.
NEW ORLEANS -- An oil rig burning out of control in the Gulf of Mexico sank Thursday morning, with 11 workers still missing and the authorities fearing a potential environmental disaster.
Several combustion tests have been performed in a 500 kWth PF pilot test rig burning cynara blended with two coals at different shares in energy basis.
Trailers for the new disaster movie Deepwater Horizon, based on the April 2010 disaster, which will be released later this month, quickly shift from sickly sweet family scenes of Mark Wahlberg bidding farewell to his wife and daughter as he goes off to work on a huge oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico to a desperate fight for survival, as panicked workers scramble to escape the burning oil rig.
After burning for 36 hours, the rig capsized and sank, thereby detaching from the pipe that had linked the rig to the well, approximately 1,500 m (5,000 ft) below the surface.
