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).
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When an offshore oil rig is outdated, or can no longer cost-effectively pump oil, most countries require that the oil rigs be wholly decommissioned.
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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