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.
It was not immediately known who owns the 154-foot oil barge.
Beset by scarce credit, falling asset prices and costly food, developed-country households are hardly well-equipped to foot the oil bill.
But the lengthy delays that have characterized negotiations over other Kazak oil and gas deals (usually due to Russian foot-dragging) are unlikely in this case.
First, though, he had to dive through a 40-foot vertical patch of murky, water-oil mixture that began 20 feet below the surface.
He recently finished a home for an oil executive that included a 1, 000-square-foot trophy room for the exotic animals he'd shot in Africa.
Gliding across Prince William Sound by kayak, you can't imagine that the 986-foot Exxon Valdez ever spewed a drop of crude oil, let alone 11 million gallons.
Twenty-three years ago, amid an oil crisis and a world economic slump, the territory still had one foot in poverty.
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For example, some 1, 000 barrels of crude oil, water and gas mixture poured onto the tundra after a 2-foot gash formed in a pipeline in November 2009.
For nine months the ship Transocean Discoverer Spirit used 360-degree rotating propellers to hold itself steady in the 3, 500-foot-deep water as diamond-tipped bits cut the deepest oil well ever--6.5 miles down.
Germans had to foot a higher import bill, the statistics office said, no doubt because of higher oil prices.
That has allowed the Russians to place a foot in other countries of the continent, looking to expand its market for its military and oil industries, as evidences the Russian delegation that recently visited Argentina.
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Oil-company project manager Ken Christie, 52, says he was excited to find a rare, 40-foot Airstream trailer from 1962 that was designed originally to serve as living quarters for railway workers.
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