Sentence examples for rig on which from inspiring English sources

Transocean leased the Deepwater Horizon oil rig on which the explosion occurred to BP.

Experiments are done on a small laboratory ball bearing rig on which vibration displacement data are acquired for a baseline condition as well as six different fault conditions that are introduced separately at different subcritical steady state speeds.

The name of a sail is frequently derived from the name of the piece of rigging on which it is set or from its location with reference to a nearby piece of gear.

It will be the third time Mr. Obama has visited the area since the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig on April 20, which killed 11 workers and led to the spill, pouring an estimated 12,000 to 19,000 barrels of oil a day into the Gulf of Mexico.

Then, the development of a specific test rig is presented, on which compression/tension, shear, internal pressure and combinations are possible.

Of course, while Barofsky was on the job, it was hard to conceive that this rate-rigging was going on, which is why it matters if Geithner knew about it "four years ago" -- at the same time TALF was launched -- and whether or not he actually "sounded the alarm... to regulators," as Geithner contends.

The show tells the story of a group of hair-metal rockers striving simultaneously to enjoy themselves, find love and save their favourite LA bar from being bulldozed – a flimsy bit of rigging, by common consent, on which to hang a lot of jolly, dreadful (and jolly dreadful) 1980s anthems.

In the past, the gold medal for my favourite Muse song has been a photo finish between two: "Supermassive Black Hole", essentially Prince reinventing "Kiss" on Judas Priest's rig; and "Plug-In Baby", on which a Hendrixed run at Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D-minor slams, head-first, into a turbocharged take-off of Air's "Sexy Boy", which in turn collides with a lung-bursting, vengeful chorus.

These orbits are also compared to those observed on a similarly configured rig with different dynamic characteristics on which the same experiments are done in order to assess any changes in the shaft orbit.

A safety valve on the sea floor prevented the oil from shooting up to the Transocean drill rig on the surface, which would have caused a gusher.

In addition, a test rig for the elastic-track single magnetic levitation system is built, on which the effectiveness of the controlled strategy is verified.