Mr. Beisner, who will help the oil-rig owner fend off civil litigation, didn't respond to requests for comment.
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The Capsule Hotel, also in the Netherlands, has its guests sleep within bright-orange, 133-square-foot oil-rig survivor pods moored in the Hague.
The wife of a laid-off oil-rig worker, who's used to him being away for weeks at a time, can't get a reprieve.
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The decision came in a case concerning the physical and verbal abuse directed at Joseph Oncale, an oil-rig roustabout, by fellow male workers.
Its revenue and profit are rising, but the Deepwater Horizon oil-rig disaster in 2010 has resulted in greater government oversight and regulations, it warns.
Regulatory reforms and policy changes are urgently needed to prevent drilling disasters, ensure oil-rig safety in the Gulf and elsewhere and guarantee rapid response and cleanup when accidents happen.
To pay for disasters like the Piper Alpha oil-rig fire of 1988, and then 1989's Exxon Valdez shipwreck off Alaska, unprecedented wads of money were now required from the names' own pockets.
In the weeks after the BP-chartered oil rig exploded shares of St.
At the same time, a massive Chinese-built semi-submersible oil rig has been dispatched from Singapore to a position off northwest Cuba, about 50 miles from Key West.
Those fears were heightened recently by the Kulluk accident - a Shell oil rig that ran aground in Alaska.
The bad news is much of this is already priced into the stocks of some oil-service companies, including BJ Services and Transocean (nyse: RIG - news - people ), both selling for more than 30 times this year's expected earnings.
Although the world's largest oil rig finally stopped sinking yesterday--four days after three explosions left it lurching more than 30 degrees--the accident could cost Brazil's Petrobras , which owns the 40-story platform, half a billion dollars.
The U.S. official said two further Americans survived the four-day crisis at an insecure oil rig at the facility.
The Rig 421 oil drill, so-called Plan C, is currently at 265 meters and en route to the roof of the tunnel at Level 150 (150 meters above sea level).
An oil rig is due to arrive in mid-February, in microcosm of the fleet of ships sent to carry soldiers and munitions to wage war against the Argentines almost three decades past, but in this case to explore 100 miles north of the archipelago, where a geological survey has indicated there may be 60 billion barrels of oil.
He was seen as a old-school oil man, happier having a beer with rig workers than, like Lord Browne, drinking fine wine with prime ministers and presidents.
When an offshore oil rig is outdated, or can no longer cost-effectively pump oil, most countries require that the oil rigs be wholly decommissioned.
From those meetings came heartbreaking and moving portraits of desperate people needing the truck a man who lost his job after falling off an oil rig, an Iraq war veteran, and a Texas-born Latino who needs the truck so he can sell it and pay for veterinary school.
The civil lawsuit was brought against the UK oil firm - as well as other companies involved in the accident, including rig-owner Transocean and cement-provider Halliburton - by the US Justice of Department and the US states affected by the oil slick.
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In 1979, the worlds's worst oil spillage occurred as a result of a marine blow-out beneath the drilling rig Ixtoc 1 in the Gulf of Mexico.
But when the Spanish oil firm, Repsol, wanted to explore for oil in Cuban waters it had to bring a rig from China with less than 10% US-made parts.
Transocean ( RIG - news - people ), says the safety device that was supposed to cut oil flow on the ocean floor in the event of a well blowout did not perform its function.
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