They buy boats that look as if they were extruded from the same hunk of plastic and gather at events like Antigua Sailing Week to brag about how they've cut a few pounds out of their rig by switching to carbon-fiber composites from aluminum.
During the three hours it took to move the rig out of the way, the debris fell back to the bottom of the hole and clogged up the perforations.
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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 post Macondo, Uncle Sam made MMR roll the rig back out of the way and close off the well before a flow test could be completed (No longer a requirement).
Fresh off unveiling its BlackBerry 10 operating system and two new phones, the company tried to keep its badly needed momentum going with a 30-second spot in which a guy uses the new BlackBerry Z10 to set himself on fire, grow elephant legs and magically turn an out-of-control big rig into an exploding pile of rubber duckies.
The rig came trotting out of the twilight, bouncing on the rough road, until it reached us and the driver slowed his team to a walk.
We may need to evacuate a drilling rig out in the Gulf of Mexico such as McMoRan, Energy XXI did with the approach of Hurricane Isaac earlier this summer.
People drilling the hole with a giant rig were just able to pull it out of the way and get to safety when the steam exploded and dug a crater that's more than 100 feet deep and about as wide.
Naturally, having such a mammoth rig sitting in the middle of the street brought out hordes of gawkers clicking away with their smartphones.
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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.
But the cost will be steep: Wal-Mart's customers aren't the kind of big spenders who will splash out for a high-margin gaming rig.
Chevron sunk an offshore oil rig in 1937 in 14 feet of water and by 1947 drillers were working on rigs out of sight of land.
The judge also agreed to rule out punitive damages against Cameron International, the manufacturer of the blowout preventer on the ill-fated Deepwater Horizon rig, which was rocked by an explosion and fire in 2010 that killed 11 workers and touched off the enormous spill.
Where Scalia wrote that Oncale had been "physically assaulted...in a sexual manner, " she'd spell out that the young man had been pinned in the oil rig's shower and assaulted with a bar of soap.
Before she ruled, the judge heard an apology from a BP executive and emotional testimony from relatives of the 11 workers who died when BP's blown-out Macondo well triggered an explosion on the rig and started the spill.
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