Sentence examples for working on the rig from inspiring English sources

It was expected that a number of BP executives and managers, including those working on the rig the night of the explosion, would be charged.

It is clear that those working on the rig were under great pressure and many shortcuts were taken to get the oil out of the ocean bed as fast as possible.

Congressional investigators and news accounts have suggested that the decision to begin removing drilling mud was a subject of intense discussion — and perhaps even disagreement — among engineers working on the rig that day.

The possible provision in the final oil spill settlement protocol requiring people to waive their right to sue companies other than BP that were working on the rig is also expected to face protest, legal experts said.

Correspondingly, these new insights were troubling, because given modern business demands, how can organizations afford to not have employees focus both narrowly and broadly at once? Consider, for example, an engineer working on an oil rig, whose job it is to monitor the safety of employees working on the rig.

Chinese coast guard vessels used water cannon against Vietnamese ships investigating the rig and Chinese officials complained Vietnamese vessels had rammed Chinese ships working on the rig project endangering the lives of Chinese workers.

"The incident rate for a real estate agent is higher than someone working on the rigs," he said.

"These guys working on the rigs, they get laid off, then they work, then they get laid off.

Despite all that, there was a brittleness to his delivery; here was the character singer inhabiting the vet who is still jumpy in car parks, who's endlessly travelling the country end to end, working on the rigs  and flying choppers when he could – the PTSD sufferer desperate for the last plane out of Sydney so he might whore away his haunting dreams on a Hong Kong mattress.

She told VICE that people working on the rigs used to make $80,000 or sometimes more a year, and now the only jobs left are at the area's massive chicken processing plants, where wages are low.

When I look at some of the photos of working on the rigs, I often think of a tv show called Dirty Jobs hosted by Mike Rowe and the podcast he made about how people doing horrible dirty jobs are financially secure and happy, even though they are not following their passion.