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Transocean Ltd. Transocean Ltd. is an American drilling company. [2] It is the world's largest offshore drilling contractor based on revenue and is based in Vernier, Switzerland. The company has offices in 20 countries, including Canada, the United States, Norway, United Kingdom, India, Brazil, Singapore, Indonesia, and Malaysia.
Deepwater Horizon was a fifth-generation, RBS-8D design (i.e. model type), deepwater, dynamically positioned, column-stabilized, [4] semi-submersible mobile offshore drilling unit, designed to drill subsea wells for oil exploration and production using an 18.75 in (476 mm), 15,000 psi (100,000 kPa) blowout preventer, and a 21 in (530 mm ...
Deepwater Horizon was a floating semi-submersible drilling unit —a fifth-generation, ultra-deepwater, dynamically positioned, column-stabilized drilling rig owned by Transocean and built in South Korea. The platform was 396 feet (121 m) long and 256 feet (78 m) wide and could operate in waters up to 8,000 feet (2,400 m) deep, to a maximum ...
July 3. Unified Command issues press release which says, "The risk of weathered oil and tar balls from the Deepwater Horizon /BP oil spill coming to the Florida Peninsula and the Florida Keys remains low under current ocean and wind conditions. NOAA's long-term projection model released yesterday focused on the possible long-term shoreline ...
1946. Commenced operations. 1946. Ceased operations. 1960. Operating bases. Oakland, California. Transocean Air Lines was an airline based in the United States that operated from 1946, when it was established as ONAT (Orvis Nelson Air Transport Company), until its bankruptcy in 1960. It was based in Oakland, California.
Chevron Corporation is an American multinational energy corporation predominantly specializing in oil and gas. The second-largest direct descendant of Standard Oil, and originally known as the Standard Oil Company of California (shortened to Socal or CalSo ), it is headquartered in San Ramon, California, and active in more than 180 countries.
The following is a timeline of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill (also referred to as the BP oil spill, the Gulf of Mexico oil spill or the Macondo blowout). It was a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the largest offshore spill in U.S. history.
Transocean News Service (also Trans-Ocean News Service) was a wireless German news agency headquartered in Berlin, Germany. It was closed by the Allied occupation government after the German capitulation in May 1945. The agency was founded in 1914 in response to Britain ’s cutting of transatlantic cables to Germany during the World War I.