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2. Offshore drilling - Wikipedia

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   Offshore drilling is a mechanical process where a wellbore is drilled below the seabed. It is typically carried out in order to explore for and subsequently extract petroleum that lies in rock formations beneath the seabed.

3. Offshoring - Wikipedia

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   The number of jobs lost to offshoring is less than 1 percent of the total US labor market. [49] The total number of jobs lost to offshoring, both manufacturing and technical represent only 4 percent of the total jobs lost in the US. Major reasons for cutting jobs are from contract completion and downsizing. [50]

4. Outsourcing - Wikipedia

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   If the offshore workplace is a foreign subsidiary, owned by the company, then the offshore operation is a § captive, [215] sometimes referred to as in-house offshore. [216] Offshore outsourcing – combines outsourcing and offshoring; is the practice of hiring an external organization that is in another country to perform a business function ...

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. List of abbreviations in oil and gas exploration and production

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   MOPU – mobile offshore production unit (to describe jack-up production rig, or semi-submersible production rig, or floating production, or storage ship) MOT – materials/marine offloading terminal MOV – motor operated valve

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

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   Historically, offshore drilling began by extending known coastal oil- and gas-producing trends out into the ocean. For this reason, most US offshore drilling has taken place offshore Louisiana, Texas, California, and Alaska, areas with coastal onshore oil and gas fields.

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9. Drillship - Wikipedia

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   A drillship is a merchant vessel designed for use in exploratory offshore drilling of new oil and gas wells or for scientific drilling purposes. In recent years the vessels have been used in deepwater and ultra-deepwater applications, equipped with the latest and most advanced dynamic positioning systems.