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2. Offshore oil and gas in the United States - Wikipedia

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   State offshore seabed in California produced 37,400 barrels (5,950 m 3) of oil per day, and federal offshore tracts produced 66,400 barrels (10,560 m 3) of oil per day in November 2008. State and federal offshore tracts together made up 16% of the state's oil production. [ 10 ]

3. Oil platform - Wikipedia

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   The Lun-A (Lunskoye-A) platform, located off the north eastern coast of Sakhalin Island and is a concrete gravity base substructure (CGBS).. An oil platform (also called an oil rig, offshore platform, oil production platform, etc.) is a large structure with facilities to extract and process petroleum and natural gas that lie in rock formations beneath the seabed.

4. Don’t have a college education and want to make bank and take ...

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   Not many on-the-ground jobs that offer a salary over $55,000 for just half a year’s work. But that’s the money for those who opt for the rigor of an oil rig, a hot topic on people’s tongues ...

5. Tool pusher - Wikipedia

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   A tool pusher (sometimes toolpusher, pusher, or The Push) is an occupation within the oil drilling industry.. On a land drilling rig the tool pusher may be rig manager and responsible for all operations, but on drillships and offshore oil rigs, tool pushers are department heads in charge of the drilling department and reporting to the Master or Offshore Installation Manager depending on the ...

6. Highly paid oil rig worker merits overtime, U.S. Supreme ...

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   An oil rig supervisor who earned more than $200,000 a year working for Houston-based Helix Energy Solutions Group Inc is entitled to overtime pay, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday in a ...

7. US tightens some offshore oil rig safety rules that had been ...

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   The Biden administration on Tuesday finalized tighter rules for complex devices meant to prevent catastrophic blowouts on offshore oil and gas drilling rigs, reversing some Trump administration ...

8. HRG Group - Wikipedia

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   In 1990 the oil drilling company proposed selling its entire fleet of offshore drilling rigs to focus solely on fishing. The company had not had a profitable quarter in more than five years. In 1990, Zapata Offshore sold 12 of its drilling rigs to Arethusa Offshore, which a few years later merged with Diamond Offshore .

9. Offshore drilling - Wikipedia

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   In 1937, Pure Oil and its partner Superior Oil used a fixed platform to develop a field 1 mile (1.6 km) offshore of Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana in 14 feet (4.3 m) of water. In 1938, Humble Oil built a mile-long wooden trestle with railway tracks into the sea at McFadden Beach on the Gulf of Mexico, placing a derrick at its end – this was ...