If the job came open, the one that was left standing was the driller.
But he was responsible for making the white plaster figure of the driller.
The driller's face has been transformed into a helmet, and another astonishing element is the mysterious unborn child installed between his ribs.
The drill itself was sold, and Epstein cut off the driller's legs and hands, transforming him into a vulnerable victim before casting the torso in bronze.
With this the driller can create 4-D images (three dimensions plus time) of oil reservoirs via a seismic vibration sensor attached to the end of a fiber-optic cable pushed down into a well.
That portends a good year for Dallas-based Ensco International (nyse: ESV - news - people )--42 of its 53 rigs are jackups, making it the driller most levered to the trend.
Development Driller II, the rig drilling a second relief well as a redundancy measure, is completing preparations for its blowout preventer to be used on the Macondo well, while the Development Driller III -- the rig drilling the relief well expected to intercept the main well -- is standing by until that's done.
They have been the largest driller for years, and they have a very explicit strategy in terms of rig deployment, production, and prices.
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Petrobras has 200 oil drilling blocs in the Gulf of Mexico, and it was banned from drilling just as every other deep water driller in the Gulf following the BP oil spill last year.
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Shafts from old mines lie under the region, said Butler County commissioner William L. McCarrier, who worked as a water well driller in the area during the 1970s.
Regarding the relief wells, Development Driller III now is at a distance of 11, 641 feet below the seafloor.
Houston-based Grey Wolf is a contract driller, operating primarily along the Gulf Coast and into Oklahoma.
Houston-based Grey Wolf (amex: GW - news - people ) is a contract driller, operating primarily along the Gulf Coast and into Oklahoma.
Development Driller II is 6, 720 feet below the seafloor and is making progress as well.
Petrobras is majority owned by the Brazilian government and is a major deep water oil driller.
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As the pitch noted: Transocean, a contract-driller, may have experienced an overblown concern for liabilities from an oil spill.
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They showed the most enthusiasm for shares of Houston-based independent oil and gas driller Petrohawk Energy.
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San Antonio-based Pioneer Drilling is a contract driller, but does its business on land in Oklahoma and throughout Texas and the Rocky Mountains.
San Antonio-based Pioneer Drilling (amex: PDC - news - people ) is a contract driller, but does its business on land in Oklahoma and throughout Texas and the Rocky Mountains.
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn owns a small stake in offshore driller Transocean and is looking for regulatory approval to buy up nearly 5% of the company.
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Late last year Chevron and deepwater driller Transocean incurred a relatively minor spill of a couple thousand barrels of oil-laced drilling mud at the Frade prospect they were drilling off the coast of Brazil.
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