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Usually, a fly-in fly-out job involves working a long shift (e.g., 12 hours each day) for a number of continuous days with all days off spent at home rather than at the work site. As the employee's work days are almost entirely taken up by working, sleeping, and eating, there is little need for any recreation facilities at the work site.
The Fateh Oil Field (Arabic: حقل فتح) is an area of offshore oil production approximately 60 miles (97 km) from Dubai and within emirate of Dubai territorial waters in the Persian Gulf. The oil field is managed by Dubai Petroleum.
The rig is expected to begin drilling this month in Lebanese waters near the border with Israel after the two countries reached a deal last year on their maritime border. Lebanon and Israel have ...
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.
The Leviathan gas field is a large natural gas field in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Israel, [2] 47 kilometres (29 mi) south-west of the Tamar gas field. [3] The gas field is roughly 130 kilometres (81 mi) west of Haifa in waters 1,500 metres (4,900 ft) deep in the Levantine basin, a rich hydrocarbon area in one of the largest offshore natural gas field finds.
Oil reserves in the United Arab Emirates, according to its government, are about 107 billion barrels, almost as big as Kuwait's claimed reserves. [1] Of the emirates, the Emirate of Abu Dhabi has most of the oil with 92 billion barrels (14.6 × 10 ^ 9 m 3) while the Emirate of Dubai has 4 billion barrels (640 × 10 ^ 6 m 3) and the Emirate of Sharjah has 1.5 billion barrels (240 × 10 ^ 6 m 3 ...
At least one contractor was killed after a fire struck an offshore platform operated by Mexico's national oil company Pemex, the firm said in a statement on Sunday, adding that two others were in ...
Lebanon is one of the only seven countries in the world in which the value of the stock market increased in 2008. [48] The Lebanese economy experienced continued resilience, growing 8.5 percent in 2008, 7 percent in 2009 and 8.8% in 2010. However, Lebanon's debt to GDP ratio remained one of the highest in the world. [49]