Sentence examples for drilling contractor from inspiring English sources

In another communication with the Science Museum dated 9 December 2014, a Shell staff member gives what they call a "heads up" on a Reuters story reporting that Shell's Arctic drilling contractor, Noble, has pleaded guilty to eight charges of pollution and poor record keeping.

Offshore drilling contractor Transocean released the results of its internal investigation on last year's Macondo well explosion and oil spill.

Since the explosion, during which 11 workers were thrown overboard and are presumed dead, federal officials and members of Congress have launched several investigations into the incident and the role of BP and drilling contractor TransOcean.

As lawsuits continue to mount against oil giant, BP, and drilling contractor, Transocean, both companies are engaging in full scale efforts to limit their liability for the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig on April 20th that has claimed the lives of several workers, injured many others and left unknown thousands whose livelihoods depend on the Gulf in financial ruin.

Late last year, drilling contractor Noble Corp Plc paid $12.2 million to settle felony charges by the U.S. Department of Justice related to safety, environmental and record keeping violations on vessels in Arctic waters in 2012 while working as a contractor for Shell.

Our drilling contractor has done this.

The merger also reflects the desire of drilling contractors to move rigs into lucrative foreign waters.

Mr. Luthi, who now leads an industry group representing offshore drilling contractors, said the new leadership had centralized much of the decision making in Washington.

"In the past, I've heard drilling contractors complain that they're being pressured to not wait long enough," said Elmer P. Danenberger III, a former top regulator at the Minerals Management Service, a federal agency that oversees offshore drilling.

But the labor shortage threatens to keep drilling contractors from meeting their goal of increasing the number of gas wells drilled in Western Canada this year by 44percentto to almost 10,000.

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