Sentence examples for rig about from inspiring English sources

The anti-China protests began after Beijing deployed a deep sea oil rig about 150 miles (240km) off Vietnam's coast.

The massive spill followed an explosion that killed 11 workers at the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, about 50 miles off the Louisiana coast.

The April 2010 explosion at BP's Deepwater Horizon rig about 40 miles off Louisiana's coast spewed oil slicks across 68,000 miles of open water and more than 1,000 miles of coastline.

The rig, about 50 miles from the Louisiana coast, had drilled a well in the sea floor that began to gush hundreds of thousands of gallons of crude oil upon the collapse.

Locked in a passionate embrace, their bodies are illuminated by a lamp that swings gently from a nearby tree, as well as a 10-foot-tall lighting rig about 10 metres to their left.

When Mr. Andrich of NFL Films first saw the new 3ality rig about a week before the Philadelphia game, he said that the system, then 50 pounds, was too front-heavy for effective maneuvering.

The US Coast Guard said the rig, carrying about 143,000 gallons of diesel and about 12,000 gallons of other oil products, appears stable.

But the Warriors' growing influence is apparent here in Levelland, a small city of 14,000 set amid cotton fields and oil rigs about 30 miles west of Lubbock.

Analysts at Seaport Global Securities think the transaction is attractive for the offshore driller, with the $135 million price tag for each of the 10 existing rigs about double what Borr paid for the Hercules Resilience and Hercules Triumph rigs in December.

An independent trucker wants to buy a new rig, which costs about $150,000.

Instead, rig activity slipped about 10% below last year's level.