I'd like to get more offshore experience, have a go at the dirty stuff.
The technology centre will build on BP's deep offshore experience and learnings with full emphasis on safety, environmental integrity and emergency spill response capability".
The company is thought to have the necessary offshore experience through its operations in the North Sea.
Eager to take part, Statoil hoped its offshore experience at Snøhvit would score points with the Russians.
"The offshore experience has been disappointing to say the least," White said.
BP, a drill-baby-drill oil company that made $6.1 billion in the first quarter of this year and lobbied against "new, stricter safety rules" for offshore drilling, had experienced an offshore disaster for which ordinary Americans are going to pay through the nose (again).
The extreme weather conditions experienced offshore leads to a focus on new structure concepts, remote monitoring and a higher degree of automation in order to keep the cost of constructions with an economically viable range.
Canada's national team would clock the highest medal count for a Winter Olympic Games held offshore, and Canadians experienced unprecedented levels of engagement and viewing (helped, of course, by 24-hour media feeds).
Experimentation has therefore been undertaken to determine the influence of various factors on the wear development, including compressive stress, displacement amplitude, surface roughness and the presence of water, looking at conditions typically experienced by offshore grouted connections.
This numerical procedure was extended to investigate the response of a full-scale wind turbine over a range of soil densities, which might be experienced at offshore development sites.
