In California, an offshore drilling rig stained the coast of Santa Barbara with more than 3 million gallons of crude oil.
Visitors to an offshore drilling rig or production platform receive safety training and are outfitted with steel-toed boots, safety goggles, gloves, hearing protection, and a helmet.
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Furthermore, the average offshore drilling rig is 20 years old.
As of March 28, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcment (BOEMRE) of the Department of the Interior had received 31 deepwater drilling permit applications for offshore drilling activities like water injection wells and drilling from a fixed rig that were still allowed under the moratorium.
The Senate became consumed with health care and then immigration, then only weeks after President Obama announced plans to increase offshore drilling in the U.S. the Deepwater Horizon rig blew.
The explosion in April of that year of a drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico triggered the largest offshore oil spill in the country's history.
The London-based company has lost more than a third of its stock-market value since April 20, when one of its gulf wells blew out, destroying the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, killing 11 men and triggering the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history.
On May 27, President Barack Obama ordered a six-month offshore drilling moratorium in the wake of the April explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon rig, which killed 11 workers and started oil gushing into the Gulf.
Bankston, nominated by the United States of America, for placing their own lives at risk while rescuing survivors from the Deepwater Horizon Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit, in the Gulf of Mexico, following a devastating explosion on the rig in April 2010.
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Transocean Sedco Forex (44, RIG), Santa Fe International (34, SDC) and Diamond Offshore Drilling (40, DO) are deploying huge fleets of long-idled semisubmersibles.
John McCain touts offshore drilling as a solution to producing more oil, and recently held a press conference on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico to make his point.
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