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.
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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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).
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.
One danger is that, as the oil slowly oozes out, it might leak into the ground water before a drilling rig can pump it out.
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Under a new owner, the site is creating jobs to carry out oil rig refits and handle renewable energy contracts.
The generals must fear retribution from Mrs Zia, whom they disobeyed when it became clear that her party was out to rig the January 2007 poll.
To end cronyism we must end government's ability to dole out favors and rig the market.
She paused to tell stories about the trail and the area, pointing out an old rig that tried drilling for oil in the 1970s and describing the way the native plants have developed.
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.
The drillers lost control and the well blew out, igniting the rig in a fireball that burned for days and killed two workers.
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.
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.
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
The investigation did discover that BP's rig supervisors and crew members from Transocean had not carried out a crucial safety test properly, missing an important early warning that the pressure was too high and the well was about to rupture.
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AMD's latest should be available right now for an undisclosed price, but we'd wait for a few hands-on opinions before rushing out and skipping over a dedicated GPU in your next rig.
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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.
They were unable to force him out, because the recent FSA investigation into how Barclays attempted to rig the important Libor interest rates did not find him personally culpable.
Will Honeybourne, a First Reserve managing director in Houston who helped spearhead the deal--and beat out rival buyout shop Candover--notes that Abbot's rig-building and operating subsidiaries Bentec and KCA Deutag are particularly strong in Russia, West Africa, the Middle East and Libya.
British oil company BP, one of the firms operating the rig, has not been able to activate a device known as a blow-out preventer, designed to stop oil flow in an emergency.
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.
This is an appealing characteristic to the new Bureau of Ocean Energy Management as it strives to work out rules for future drilling in the Gulf that will provide safety and security for both rig workers and the environment.
Let Democrats have what they want, in a decade when it has brought us to Soviet Union Style growth rates and people cannot figure out what went wrong THEN we can help them understand the difference between real growth and this regulatory rig-a-morel that is going on.
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