Then the gigantic oil platforms of the North Sea beckon.
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The division provides equipment and services to offshore oil platforms.
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Oil platforms, many of them abandoned, stud the lake's surface.
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He paints oil platforms from the North Sea to Azerbaijan.
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"And now they're going to work the [oil] platforms?" he scoffed.
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The government has been investing heavily in the oil platforms throughout these waters.
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Industrial action on French oil major Total's North Sea oil platforms on Sept.
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But it has said it took action against the Iranian oil platforms as retribution.
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That means new offshore drilling is likeliest in areas that already have offshore oil platforms.
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They said it would sink the national shipbuilding industry that makes off-shore oil platforms.
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The ship was being operated by the Italian firm Micoperi, which services offshore oil platforms.
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Marek Chmielarski, that painter of oil platforms, will go, although his wife, a teacher, worries.
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As oil platforms move farther into Iceberg Alley, he and other ice-wranglers will cheerfully follow.
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The U.S. swiftly destroyed multiple Iranian oil platforms, sea bases and ships, sending oil prices upward.
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Energy companies have pulled workers from offshore oil platforms and halted onshore drilling in south Texas.
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Oil platforms are usually removed piece by piece and taken to the shore using complex vessels.
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The 1988 offensive, dubbed Operation Praying Mantis, swiftly destroyed multiple Iranian oil platforms, sea bases and ships.
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Oil and gas companies scaled back production and evacuated some offshore oil platforms as the storm approached.
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In response, U.S. warships set Iranian oil platforms ablaze and sank or damaged half of Iran's fleet.
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"This means some delays in replacing people on the oil platforms, but production hasn't been affected," he added.
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Oil platforms and refineries The Gulf of Mexico and its coastline are hotbeds of oil drilling and refinement.
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President Ronald Reagan ordered retaliatory strikes against Iranian oil platforms and naval vessels, U.S. officials said at the time.
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Impacts from Hurricanes Rita and Katrina together destroyed 22019 offshore oil platforms in the Gulf and damaged 52 others.
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A lot of people in Santa Barbara or Los Angeles can see those oil platforms right from their beach chair.
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Unite said it has 2,500 members covered by the OCA and the decision would affect 106 North Sea oil platforms.
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It is one of several companies trying new ideas to win business in the market for dismantling disused oil platforms.
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"The usual period of summer maintenance of North Sea oil platforms also failed to materialise for a second month running."
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Hundreds of workers on eight oil platforms operated by Norway's Statoil would also strike but output would be maintained, NOG said.
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It even gives fixed facilities like off-shore oil platforms and ocean-based wind power farms warning of incoming inclement conditions.
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Conditions were so serious that inspectors moved nine times to shut down entire oil platforms, not simply broken components they found.
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Today, the bridge's lights no longer shine and broken down oil platforms span the lake with downwind shores soaked in oil.
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If this summer brings any major hurricanes hitting oil platforms or refineries along the Gulf Coast, that can cause a price shock.
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It's an unexpected victory for environmentalists and coastal residents who had feared oil platforms could dot the Atlantic Ocean for the first time.
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When wells dry up, these oil platforms have the potential to provide a unique environmental benefit not usually associated with offshore oil drilling.
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Around 40 rig workers started a 24-hour strike on three North Sea oil platforms operated by Total, curbing gas flows to shore.
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Energy companies shut coastal refineries, pulled workers from Gulf of Mexico offshore oil platforms and halted onshore drilling in south Texas on Thursday.
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Four days later, US warships tasked with taking out Iranian oil platforms in retaliation exchanged missile fire with and sank an Iranian ship.
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From dredging and land reclamation to offshore construction of oil platforms, costs have dropped even as the speed and quality of work have increased.
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Trucks sometimes disappear across the border, where thieves sell the fuel and pocket the cash, and militants keep blowing up oil platforms and pipelines.
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For decades, Edward Heerema, head of Allseas, the Swiss-based energy services company, dreamed of building a giant vessel to install oil platforms offshore.
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That followed Anadarko Petroleum Corp's decision on Monday to evacuate staff and shut production at two oil platforms in the northern Gulf of Mexico.
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For Statoil, this has meant calling time on giant oil platforms and instead looking to build more modest installations and, where possible, revamp existing infrastructure.
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The closure has no impact on Nigeria's economically crucial oil exports, which are shipped out almost entirely via the nation's seaports and offshore oil platforms.
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AJ: In the Gulf of Mexico, Rigs to Reefs is accepted because they have thousands of oil platforms and the public really understands the program.
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Greenpeace, which is taking the Norwegian government to court over Arctic drilling plans, said any permanent oil platforms in the region would be particularly risky.
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The Mississippi Delta region of the Gulf of Mexico is crisscrossed by hundreds of miles of oil pipelines and dozens of still-producing oil platforms.
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The project, which includes five oil platforms, is at the mouth of the eastern end of the Strait of Magellan in Argentina's Santa Cruz province.
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Retreating glaciers and ice sheets on land are already calving off an increased number of icebergs that drift south, threatening shipping lanes and offshore oil platforms.
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In April 1988, United States naval forces sank three Iranian warships and destroyed two oil platforms after an American frigate was struck by an Iranian mine.
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In a separate development, Unite was balloting 2,500 offshore oil service workers for another possible strike over pay, which would affect 106 North Sea oil platforms.
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U.S. crude futures were up 0.83 percent at $70.38 a barrel, following the evacuation of two Gulf of Mexico oil platforms in anticipation of a hurricane.
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And in 1992, Iran initiated proceedings against the US at the ICJ after the US launched strikes against several Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf.
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However, the court found in 2003 that neither actions by the United States against Iranian oil platforms nor Iranian attacks on American shipping violated the treaty.
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In 1988, U.S. Navy ships destroyed two Iranian oil platforms in retaliation for damage to the USS Samuel B. Roberts from an Iranian mine in the Gulf.
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"Occupied" goes for big dramatic strokes — assassinations, gun battles on oil platforms, escapes into the safety of the United States Embassy (where the Americans aren't very helpful).
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Mexican national oil company Pemex said on Wednesday night it was monitoring Earl but had not evacuated workers at oil platforms concentrated in the southern Gulf of Mexico.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell said on Tuesday that production at four oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico has been shut in the wake of a Nov.
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On top of that, producers plan to scrap nearly 150 oil platforms in the North Sea over the next 10 years, according to various reports, including the BBC.
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As old-school industries like oil and gas increasingly network entities like oil platforms, they become more vulnerable to hacking attacks that were impossible when they were stand-alone.
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Pemex, struggling financially with high debt costs and flagging oil production, has come under scrutiny for mismanaging and overspending on contracts for everything from oil platforms to safety films.
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Oslo-listed Kvaerner, which builds large structures like oil platforms, will suspend dividend payments in the first half of this year despite posting better-than-expected earnings on Tuesday.
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HOUSTON (Reuters) - BP Plc said on Monday that its offshore oil platforms in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico and its Texas City chemical plant remain online during Tropical Storm Harvey.
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In search of a competitive advantage, Exxon has established oil platforms in the Arctic Ocean, natural-gas fields in the jungles of Indonesia, and drilling platforms in Iraq's Euphrates Valley.
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The company, which makes foundations for offshore structures including wind turbines and oil platforms, had originally planned to list in February but postponed the offering due to poor market conditions.
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Oil prices had posted gains early in the week as the approach of Gordon forced the closure of Gulf of Mexico oil platforms and threatened refineries on the Gulf Coast.
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These assets include gasoline-burning cars and trucks, natural gas power plants, fossil-fueled cement plants and other factories, not to mention oil refineries, coal mines, pipelines and offshore oil platforms.
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Details: Patients who enter Cenikor's program — sometimes via a court order — are put to work doing physical labor, often in warehouses or on oil platforms for companies like Exxon and Walmart.
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Digitizing industrial assets can also mean fewer people need to be offshore, less downtime for oil platforms, more targeted maintenance and better analysis of information such as geological data and valve pressures.
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In commodity markets, U.S. oil prices rose past the $70 per barrel mark, with production coming under pressure as two Gulf of Mexico oil platforms were evacuated in preparation for a hurricane.
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The Detector mainly diverts icebergs not to protect shipping but to shield five offshore oil platforms on the Grand Banks, 300km (200 miles) east of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
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On previous passages through the North Sea, the carrier has deliberately operated jets and aircraft close by Norwegian oil platforms, an act of intimidation that forced nearby civilian helicopters to be grounded.
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The decision to stop the flights meant Statoil's workers were left stranded on oil platforms as the S-92 is the only model used by the company to transport people offshore Norway.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A 12-hour strike by 45 workers that shut down production at three of Total's British offshore oil platforms ended as planned at midnight, a spokesman for Unite said on Tuesday.
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Statoil said in February said new types of offshore installations could reduce capital spending by 30 percent and operating costs by 50 percent compared to conventional oil platforms - meaning less money for suppliers.
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Four years into the tanker war, after an American-flagged ship was struck by an Iranian mine, America conducted its largest ever attack on Iran, destroying two oil platforms and sinking a frigate.
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This was the latest in a string of attacks claimed by the Niger Delta Avengers, a new group taking out pipelines and oil platforms in the southern, oil-pumping part of the country.
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SOCAR said earlier a fire had broken out at the well on one of the Guneshli oil platforms, which belongs to the company, but then said that it was just the gas leakage.
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A commercial ship that supplies oil platforms off the coast of Libya pulled 66 migrants to safety on Monday, but it was told not to bring them to Italy, an Interior Ministry source said.
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ViaSat-3, the third part in the exciting ViaSat-1 and -2 trilogy, plans to make internet usably fast for anyone relying on satellites—mostly rural customers, offshore oil platforms, and yes, airplane passengers.
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The deal will strengthen Det norske's position as the biggest independent operator of Norwegian oil platforms behind state-controlled Statoil, which is responsible for 60 percent of the Nordic country's oil and gas output.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Scottish marine salvage group Ardent is adapting the tanks it used to refloat the Costa Concordia, the cruise ship wrecked off the Italian coast in 2012, to decommission North Sea oil platforms.
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Uses: Originally developed to ferry people and cargo to offshore oil platforms, S-21991 helicopters are now widely used for executive and V.I.P. passenger transportation, for search-and-rescue work and as air ambulances.
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U.S. oil producer Anadarko Petroleum evacuated workers and shut production at two offshore oil platforms on Monday, and other companies with production and refining operations along the Gulf Coast said they were securing facilities.
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LONDON, July 31 (Reuters) - A 12-hour strike at three of Total's British offshore oil platforms that started at midday on Monday ended as planned at midnight, a spokesman for Unite said on Tuesday.
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"To be a part of a high-tech offshore vessel, almost as a crew, and get the experience to go to the oil platforms and see them for real, that was very amazing," Nergaard said.
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Some are hoping that the job of taking apart oil platforms will provide an economic boost to the region but many cash-strapped companies are delaying shutting down operations to avoid heavy up front costs.
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Boats towing lines with up to 40 seismic airguns will detonate them to map potential oil and gas deep below the ocean's floor – a precursor to oil platforms and related infrastructure lining East Coast communities.
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U.S. oil producer Anadarko Petroleum Corp on Monday evacuated workers and shut production at two offshore oil platforms, and other companies with production and refining operations along the Gulf Coast said they were securing facilities.
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The virus outbreak could postpone deliveries of oil platforms and other equipment from yards by at least three to six months, due to shortages of staff or supplies, as well as travel bans, it added.
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HOUSTON (Reuters) - Hurricane Nate was heading on Saturday toward refineries, offshore oil platforms and other energy facilities in the central U.S. Gulf Coast that largely were spared by Hurricane Harvey's wrath nearly six weeks ago.
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And the developments around Lofoten would be much closer to the coast—and therefore more visible—than most of Norway's oil platforms, which are hundreds of miles offshore, says Joseph Dutton of the think-tank E3G.
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Norway's Oil and Gas Association said the rules could raise the cost of supplying electricity to offshore oil platforms, as well as for grid upgrades planned at onshore facilities, such as the Nyhamna gas processing plant.
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Louisiana officials declared a state of emergency and ordered some people to evacuate coastal areas and barrier islands ahead of its expected landfall early Sunday, and evacuations began at some offshore oil platforms in the Gulf.
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OSLO (Reuters) - Equinor will receive a 2.33 billion Norwegian crown ($260 million) subsidy for its planned construction of floating wind turbines to supply power to North Sea oil platforms, Norwegian state investment agency Enova said on Thursday.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Brazil's Petroleo Brasileiro SA will build its own oil platforms again from 2023, regardless of who wins the presidential election next month, an executive at the state-run oil company said.
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Anadarko Petroleum Corp said on Monday it had evacuated and shut production at two oil platforms in the northern Gulf of Mexico ahead of the approach of Gordon, which is expected to come ashore as a hurricane.
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Mr. Schneiderman disagrees, and cited the industry's own extensive climate research and the actions it has taken in response, including exploration in the melting Arctic and raising the decks of offshore oil platforms to compensate for rising sea level.
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OSLO, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Equinor will get a 2.33 billion Norwegian crowns ($260 million) subsidy for its planned construction of floating wind turbines that will supply power to North Sea oil platforms, Norwegian state investment agency Enova said on Thursday.
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Nenchev said the cost for the two ships, which could be used for the defense of other vessels, oil platforms and convoys and have a helicopter on board, could be cut by about 30 percent if built in shipyards in Bulgaria.
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But even if it were a paradise on oil platforms, Newton said he still thinks workers off the coast of California should be paid for their on-call time because everyone else who works in the state is paid for it.
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"People here have been waiting for these oil platforms to go away," said Linda Krop, an environmental lawyer with the Environmental Defense Center, an advocacy group based in Santa Barbara, where several offshore rigs can be easily seen from shore.
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A quick survey of Huel's and Soylent's Reddit and Instagram communities reveals that these products are being consumed by office workers, retail workers, people in the military, people on offshore oil platforms, bodybuilders, hikers, college students, medical students, and more.
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HOUSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Anadarko Petroleum Corp said on Monday that it had evacuated workers and shut production at two oil platforms in the northern Gulf of Mexico ahead of the approach of Gordon, which is expected to come ashore as a hurricane.
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CALGARY, Alberta/HOUSTON (Reuters) - At least two offshore oil platforms halted operations on Tuesday in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico after a fire at a natural gas processing plant in Mississippi shut a crucial pipeline that brings output onshore, several companies said.
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A state-owned company, China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation, is planning to build a fleet of the vessels to provide electricity to remote locations including offshore oil platforms and the contentious man-made islands, the state-run newspaper Global Times reported on Friday.
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I've worked for a well-known Lebanese businessman, for the owner of a bunch of oil platforms in Norway and for an American who was part of a family that owned almost all the licenses to import beer into the United States.
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It builds projects of enormous scale: CCC builds or is a partner on projects such as the giant 60-kilometer Riyadh Metro in Saudi Arabia, a giant expo center in Kazakhstan, and — in the near future — oil platforms off the East Africa, Khoury said.
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Nate is currently off the coast of Nicaragua and heading northwest into a region of the Gulf of Mexico populated by offshore oil platforms which pump more than 1.6 million barrels of crude per day (bpd), about 17 percent of U.S. output, according to government data.
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"The presented mist generator can be applied in motorway and railway tunnels, coal mines exposed to the threat of methane explosion, land- or sea-based oil platforms, other petrochemical plants and long superstructures with limited cross-sections that could be [vulnerable to] gas or dust explosions," the scientists wrote.
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During its Tuesday morning session, the Parliament cited examples such as the U.S involvement in the coup of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh in 1953, America's support of Iraq in its war with Iran from 1980 to 503, and the destruction of oil platforms in the late '80s.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Workers at three of French oil company Total's North Sea oil platforms will meet the company on Thursday for further negotiations over working conditions and are considering strike action on six different dates in August, September and October, union Unite said in a statement on Tuesday.
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Likely changes would include an end to strict local purchasing laws for ships and oil platforms, new layoffs to add to the tens of thousands already imposed nationwide, an end to minimum Petrobras involvement in key offshore oil developments and a wholesale selloff of Brazilian oil assets to foreigners.
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"There's a lot of new-generation technology in the offshore wind industry, but when I'm out there, I still know the nuts and bolts," said Anders Noer Christensen, a former superintendent engineer on oil platforms, who now works as a development manager for Vattenfall's wind projects in the North Sea.
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Storm Nate, which the U.S. National Hurricane Center said could intensify into a hurricane, is off the coast of Nicaragua, heading into a region of the Gulf populated by offshore oil platforms that pump more than 1.6 million barrels of crude per day (bpd), or about 553 percent of U.S. output.
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Per WaPo: "In pursuit of that agenda over the past two years, the administration has sought to reverse dozens of regulations aimed at making oil platforms safer, reducing carbon dioxide and methane released into the atmosphere, and protecting the habitats of endangered animals and those on the verge of an endangered status."
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Chevron Corp, the second-largest U.S.-based oil and natural gas producer, said it has begun evacuating non-essential personnel from two oil platforms in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico and has begun supplying "as much fuel as possible in advance of the storm" to its retail fuel outlets in the U.S. Southeast.
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Now, a coalition of powerful trade associations and companies—including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers, and ExxonMobil—and the federal government are urging the Supreme Court to reverse the lower court's ruling in favor of the workers, and hold that only federal wage law can apply to oil platforms located on the Outer Continental Shelf, the area of ocean that surrounds the United States, but that is not technically part of any state.
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