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It does a thriving business in directional-drilling equipment used, among other things, to lay fiber-optic cable.
He retired 20 years ago after a prosperous couple of decades running an oil drilling equipment business.
His employees worked around the clock to manufacture the necessary drilling equipment, and Brandon left for Chile.
This is raising demand for oil and gas drilling equipment manufactured by GE.
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To power the thrusters and drilling equipment, the ship generates 37 megawatts of power, enough for a city of 35, 000.
Katrina crushed Mars with 90-foot waves that toppled the drilling equipment stationed on deck and damaged vital pumping and processing gear.
His employees worked around the clock to manufacture the necessary drilling equipment.
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The natural gas glut has caused natural gas drilling to be curtailed, making drilling equipment and workers available to shift to going after the oil.
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In the case of Yukos, which is a holding company, the main assets are shares in the subsidiaries which own oil licences, drilling equipment and so on.
The tractor-trailer was hauling a housing for drilling equipment southbound when the top right front corner of the load struck several trusses on the north end of the bridge, the patrol said.
The soldiers disbanded groups of farmers protesting against local officials who had allegedly pocketed compensation money paid by a foreign oil company drilling near the coast, and evacuated drilling equipment from the area under armed escort.
Onshore production means all well drilling and other equipment used in the onshore production, extraction, recovery, lifting, stabilization, separation or treating of petroleum and natural gas (including condensate).
Drilling a 2 or 3 foot hole can be done with normal equipment, while drilling a ten, fifty, or one hundred foot diameter vertical hole would require an entirely new invention.
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Lapindo Brantas disavows any responsibility, despite claims that it had failed to use appropriate safety equipment while drilling.
Long lead times persist for oil drilling rigs, mining equipment and some other specialized machinery, but generally companies face no supply limitations when considering expansion.
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Oilfield services companies provide the tools and equipment required in the exploration of oil including drilling rigs, offshore rigs and transport equipment.
There are some reports that international drilling companies may move some equipment out, taking advantage of this moratorium.
Now, he's been able to buy better and more fuel-efficient equipment and says the drilling hasn't caused any problems.
On the day this disaster began, even as we launched a search and rescue effort for workers on the drilling rig, we were already staging equipment in the event of a larger-scale spill.
Whether or not the administration puts a temporary stop to deep-water drilling, we can only imagine what effect the added cost of higher premiums for drilling rig insurance and more sophisticated safety equipment is going to be in the months and years ahead.
Recently announced tax breaks for expensive fields are having an impact, but it will take more fiscal effort to encourage drilling and to retain the value in old equipment being kept in service.
And as one who doesn't do valve design, drilling bits, precision flow monitoring or pigging equipment, lots of the kit on display at the Offshore Europe exhibition in Aberdeen this week leaves me a bit cold.
Two years later, they founded Yantai Jereh, which grew into a major supplier of oilfield equipment and services for oil and gas drilling, natural gas liquefaction and environmental control.
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The fuel on board the rig is used to power equipment and is not the result of the drilling operations Shell conducted off the North Slope, on the opposite side of the vast state from where the Kulluk now rests.
With equipment and crew constraints being resolved because of a decline in gas production, drilling activity in North Dakota is set to rise even further.
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The loss of the hi-tech equipment has focused attention on the data gathered by the tried-and-tested method of drilling through the ice by hand.
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