Sentence examples for the cement works from inspiring English sources

The shipyards in Chalkida have largely gone the way of the cement works, making it a hotbed of support for the Marxist wing of Syriza, who want to cast the austerity programme demanded by international creditors in return for financial aid as an act of class war.

The cement works at Hope is the largest single employer within the Park.

This building fell into ruin when the cement works closed, and when it was eventually restored its appearance was radically altered, the ingenious original staircase being replaced with a simpler metal one.

Transocean pointed the finger at Halliburton, which was in charge of the cement work to stabilise the rig.

According to BP, the cement work took longer than normal, and there were concerns that the quality of the cement might have been compromised by contamination with mud.

Halliburton, the contractor for the cement work on the well, was not named as a defendant, but Mr. Holder said the complaint could be amended later.

The cement work on the well was carried out by Halliburton, while a Swiss-American firm, Transocean, was contracted to operate the Deepwater Horizon platform.

Halliburton carried out the cement work on the Macondo well, which spilled more than four million barrels of oil after an explosion destroyed the Deepwater Horizon rig and killed 11 workers.

But he said that commission investigators would present further evidence on the cement work and other factors that led to the explosion and the spill when the panel next meets in public on Nov. 8 and 9.

Jesse Gagliano, a Halliburton technical adviser, told federal investigators in Houston in August that the company was confident of the cement job and said that BP's decision to use six well-stabilizing devices known as centralizers contributed to the failure of the cement work.

For example, Representative Nick J. Rahall II, Democrat of West Virginia and the chairman of the committee, said BP executives would face questions about why they let workers from Schlumberger, a drilling-services contractor, leave the morning of the accident without conducting a special test on the quality of the cement work.