oil platform
noun
: a structure above an oil well on land or in the sea that has special equipment attached to it for drilling and removing oil from the ground
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Big dollars at stake Oil company BP agreed to pay $4 billion in penalties to settle criminal charges, including felony manslaughter charges, related to the explosion and oil spill at its Deepwater Horizon oil platform in 2010.
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Chris Isidore, CNN, 29 June 2024
Such errors can be expensive: the 1991 collapse of the Norwegian oil platform mentioned earlier caused damages amounting to more than $1.6 billion in today’s dollars.
—Manil Suri, Scientific American, 25 June 2024
After the Deepwater Horizon oil platform blew up in the Gulf of Mexico, for example, the Democratic political strategist James Carville grew frustrated.
—Joe Klein, Foreign Affairs, 13 June 2017
Even so, error estimation, had it been used, almost certainly would have alerted engineers about the problem with their FE model for the Norwegian oil platform.
—Manil Suri, Scientific American, 25 June 2024
What a bigger budget gave us, in the last seasons of Money Heist, was being able to put our characters on an oil platform, or to make a meteor shower.
—Josef Adalian, Vulture, 9 Feb. 2024
Shell is demanding $1 million in damages plus legal costs after six protestors occupied a moving oil platform in the Atlantic for 13 days in January and February last year.
—Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 24 Jan. 2024
Usually, though, Berkshire Hathaway spreads the risk among oil platform explosions, wind storms, earthquakes and other disasters.
—Matt Schifrin, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
Beta Offshore, the company operating the ocean oil platform where 28,000 gallons of crude oil spilled in 2021, racked up $1.5 million in fees.
—Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2023
Chris Isidore, CNN, 29 June 2024
Such errors can be expensive: the 1991 collapse of the Norwegian oil platform mentioned earlier caused damages amounting to more than $1.6 billion in today’s dollars.
—Manil Suri, Scientific American, 25 June 2024
After the Deepwater Horizon oil platform blew up in the Gulf of Mexico, for example, the Democratic political strategist James Carville grew frustrated.
—Joe Klein, Foreign Affairs, 13 June 2017
Even so, error estimation, had it been used, almost certainly would have alerted engineers about the problem with their FE model for the Norwegian oil platform.
—Manil Suri, Scientific American, 25 June 2024
What a bigger budget gave us, in the last seasons of Money Heist, was being able to put our characters on an oil platform, or to make a meteor shower.
—Josef Adalian, Vulture, 9 Feb. 2024
Shell is demanding $1 million in damages plus legal costs after six protestors occupied a moving oil platform in the Atlantic for 13 days in January and February last year.
—Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 24 Jan. 2024
Usually, though, Berkshire Hathaway spreads the risk among oil platform explosions, wind storms, earthquakes and other disasters.
—Matt Schifrin, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
Beta Offshore, the company operating the ocean oil platform where 28,000 gallons of crude oil spilled in 2021, racked up $1.5 million in fees.
—Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2023
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