Sentence examples for deepwater work from inspiring English sources

Graeme Reynolds, manager of B.O.P. controls at Oceaneering International, a company that is best known for its robotic submersibles used in deepwater work, said pods had to be custom-built for each blowout preventer.

The securities firm Raymond James & Associates predicts that the moratorium could last well into 2011, directly jeopardizing 50,000 jobs and potentially gutting blue-collar communities that rely heavily on the economic activity that comes with deepwater work.

"The basic function hasn't changed," said Bob Sherrill, who built and repaired blowout preventers for 20 years and now runs Blackwater Subsea, a Houston company that supplies personnel for deepwater work.

Suckling said the administration was misleading the public by quietly resuming work in shallow waters while acting as if it was taking a tough look at deepwater work.

A month later, the oil rig Deepwater Horizon, working for BP, sank in a fiery blaze in the Gulf of Mexico, and oil leaked for months.

Deepwater Horizon worked on wells in the Atlantis (BP 56%, BHP Billiton 44%) and Thunder Horse (BP 75%, ExxonMobil 25%) oil fields.

Piledriving the bases of offshore turbines produces loud noise that disturbs fish and sea mammals, but Deepwater Wind worked closely with whale surveyors and wildlife officials to avoid disrupting migrating creatures when building the Block Island Wind Farm last year.

BP, the oil company which was paying for the Deepwater Horizon's work and was due to operate Macondo, says it has recovered over 800,000 barrels of oil this way so far.The installation of the new cap on Friday July 16th could, in principle, stop any further oil or gas from leaking out of the top of the well.

And it could be another forty-eight hours before we know whether the top kill of the Deepwater Horizon well worked.

The Deepwater Horizon rig working on the BP well was owned and operated by Transocean, while key services were provided by Halliburton.

Before BP's blowout, deepwater operators were working under the assumption that the limit of their liability in the event of a spill would be $75 million, as stipulated by the 1990 Oil Pollution Act, adopted after the Exxon Valdez disaster.