Sentence examples for exploratory rig from inspiring English sources

At that moment a Chinese-made exploratory rig sat about 30 miles off the northern coast.

HMcD Updated at 1.27pm GMT 12.47pm GMT Cuadrilla's exploratory rig drilling for shale gas at Banks in Lancashire, back in 2011.

It began on April 20th with a fire and an explosion on an exploratory rig 40 miles (65km) from the Louisiana coast.

Company executives said that early reports suggested that the Deepwater Horizon, an exploratory rig, probably tapped into an unknown pocket of hydrocarbons that had not been found by prior seismic testing.

TODAY marks the first anniversary of the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon, an exploratory rig drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, that triggered one of the largest oil spills in history.

The Deepwater Horizon, an exploratory rig, was drilling an 18,000-foot well 50 miles off the Louisiana coast when an explosion — apparently caused by a blowout in the well — set the rig ablaze.

There are 90 exploratory rigs working there and about 3,500 oil-producing platforms.

By idling 33 deepwater exploratory rigs and halting six more en route to the gulf, the moratorium will effectively lay off as many as 46,000 workers.

Like Edward Sawicki, they are farmers, and worry how the arrival of an exploratory drilling rig nearby will affect their environment, particularly if water usage surges.

"THERE are many, many more of us than there are of you," shouted protesters in Balcombe, a village in southern England with an exploratory drilling rig and a population swollen by eco-warriors, to the police and the frackers.

The panel, which is expected to release its findings sometime after July 5, heard witnesses describe, under oath, the events that forced Shell to cut loose its exploratory drilling rig, the Kulluk, from its towline, grounding it on pristine Sitkalidak Island on New Year's Eve.