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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 ...
Searches for oil rig work reached a five-year high, surging particularly especially in the southern states of Mississippi, Alabama, Texas and Arkansas, which abut the Gulf of Mexico and its 6,000 ...
A look how Texas Tech's oil rig and center is impacting and changing how petroleum engineering is being taught through hands-on experience.
Black Gold is a reality-documentary television series that chronicles three oil drilling rigs in Andrews County, Texas, [1] 30 miles northwest of Odessa. It was partly produced by Thom Beers, [2] creator of Deadliest Catch and Ice Road Truckers. [3] The Black Gold theme song was sung by country music star Trace Adkins. The title "Black Gold ...
Inspector on offshore oil drilling rig. Offshore oil spill prevention and response is the study and practice of reducing the number of offshore incidents that release oil or hazardous substances into the environment and limiting the amount released during those incidents. [1] [2] [3]
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill began on April 20, 2010 when an explosion struck the rig, it occurred in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect.Killing eleven people, it is considered the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry and sources estimated that between 134–206 million barrels of oil was released into the gulf.
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 ...
A U.S. Navy crewman stands atop the cabin of a PB Mark III patrol boat tied up to the oil rig service barge Wimbrown VII in the northern Persian Gulf. From lower to upper right, the barge is armed with a .50-caliber M2 machine gun , an 81 mm Mark 2 mortar, and a 40 mm Mk 19 grenade launcher .