Drilling for Offshore Oil
Overview
Although the first "offshore" oil drilling took place in the mid-1890s, the first true offshore oil rig, out of sight of land, was not built until 1947...
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Oil Drilling Equipment
Before 1859, people drilled wells in search of water, salt, or brine (saltwater). Salt was especially important to early settlers in America because it was used to preserve food...
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At least 18 oil workers were killed when a drilling rig hit an oil platform in stormy weather, spilling gas and oil into the Gulf of Mexico, the state-owned oil company said Wednesday. Seven worker...
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An oil platform leak that has spilled thousands of barrels of crude into the Gulf of Mexico could take several months to repair, state oil monopoly Petroleos Mexicanos said.Since a drilling rig sla...
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A powerful floating radar that will be part of the national missile defense system will return to Hawaii this month for maintenance and upgrades.BAE Shipyards at Pearl Harbor won a contract for the...
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Rescue crews clinging to a mountainside struggled Wednesday to drill two narrow holes _ one just 2 1/2 inches across, the other less than 9 inches _ in a painfully slow effort to bring air and food...
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Grant Prideco has been on a roll lately, fueled by the stepped-up pace of oil and gas drilling.The Houston-based company provides products used for oil and gas production and exploration. For 11 st...
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Gas and electric company Dominion Resources Inc. said Monday it will sell most of its U.S. onshore oil and gas exploration and production operations through two transactions for a combined $6.5 bil...
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Gunmen attacked an oil rig Wednesday in Nigeria's restive southern oil heartland and seized five expatriate workers, officials said.Rivers state Police Commissioner Felix Ogbaudu said the attack ca...
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Oil prices edged up in quiet trading Wednesday as another attack on an oil facility in Nigeria lent support to the market.The most recent rally, which has boosted prices above the $71 level for the...
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Minsk (dpa) - A Belarusian energy company was on Wednesday to sign
an agreement worth 450 million dollars to develop two Iranian oil
fields, the Interfax news agency reporte...
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London (dpa) - Ten crew members of a Norwegian-registered oil rig
support vessel which capsized in the North Sea Thursday have been
rescued but five are still missing, feare...
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Drilling for Offshore Oil
Oil Drilling Equipment
Mexico oil rig accident kills 18
