Sentence examples for petroleum rig from inspiring English sources

'You Big Bully!' If Jordan enchanted N.B.A. audiences with his aerodynamics, O'Neal has all the subtlety of an 18-wheel petroleum rig losing its brakes on the Pacific Coast Highway.

Edison Chouest Offshore had its beginnings in 1960 when Mr. Chouest, who owned shrimp boats, bought a steel-hulled 65-foot utility vessel that had six months to go in a contract with the Humble Oil Company to supply a petroleum rig in the Gulf of Mexico.

He points to the tightness in markets for oil rigs, tankers, petroleum engineers, refinery capacity and various other bits of the oil value chain, and concludes that the problem is systemic: "The illusion that oil is in perennial oversupply has led to two decades of underinvestment in the oil industry.

A month earlier, the Russian petroleum company Gazprom announced plans to activate its Prirazlomnaya platform, an offshore oil rig 200 miles above the Arctic Circle.

An oil rig blows up.

Petroleum or crude oil began to significantly contribute to the Malaysian economy in the 1970s, as new oil rigs and refineries were set up.

That last one was courtesy of British Petroleum company just 14 months ago, telling regulators and the rest of us that one of its gargantuan oil rigs, aptly named Deepwater Horizon, 48 miles off the Louisiana shore, was nothing to worry about.

Where were the oil rigs?

In the present work the Buckingham π theorem is used to develop the relations (i.e. geometry, loading and properties) between the model and a large structural element as that is present in the huge existing petroleum oil drilling rigs.

Aside from BP, the suit names Trans-ocean, which owned the rig, Anadarko Petroleum and MOEX offshore, which were minority partners in the well, and Lloyd's of London.

John R. Smith, a petroleum engineering professor at Louisiana State University, told investigators that rig data showed crew members had failed to correctly test the pressure in the well.