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unusual facts about rig


Rig-e Jenn

The Austrian geographer Alfons Gabriel crossed the southern 'tail' of it on his way from Ashin to Aroosan in the 1930s.


1988 British International Helicopters Sikorsky S-61N crash

The helicopter left the Safe Felicia semi-submersible oil rig in the Forties oilfield at 13:45 with 2 pilots and a full load of 19 passengers for the one hour flight to Sumburgh Airport on the Mainland of Shetland.

1988 in Scotland

6 July - Piper Alpha disaster oil rig in the North Sea explodes and results in the death of 167 workers.

Blowout preventer

Documents discussed during congressional hearings June 17, 2010, suggested that a battery in the device's control pod was flat and that the rig's owner, Transocean, may have "modified" Cameron's equipment for the Macondo site (including incorrectly routing hydraulic pressure to a stack test valve instead of a pipe ram BOP) which increased the risk of BOP failure, in spite of warnings from their contractor to that effect.

Buddhism and Hinduism

According to "Hinduism and Buddhism An Historical Sketch", Sir Charles Elliot who was a British diplomat mentioned that this correlates with the Rig Veda of Hinduism.

Cle Newhook

He was best known for being the director of the Ocean Ranger Families Foundation, a non-profit foundation established after the 1982 oil rig disaster that killed 84 men.

Crystal Rig Wind Farm

Crystal Rig Wind Farm is an operational onshore wind farm located on the Lammermuir Hills in the Scottish Borders region of Scotland.

Devi

She has been repeatedly mentioned in the Rig Veda, and has been identified with the Saraswati River.

Donald Evans

In 1975, Evans moved to Midland, Texas from Houston and began working on an oil rig for Tom Brown Inc., a large independent energy company now based in Denver.

Douglas Thayer

Thayer’s early work experience included helper on a uranium drill rig, construction laborer, railroad section hand, janitor, restaurant dishwasher, insurance salesman, and seasonal ranger in Yellowstone National Park.

Drsadvati River

While Saraswati had flown from north to south during Rig Vedic period, the Drishadwati had flown from south to North in Aravalies from pot of Lord Brahma, Pushkar Lake, near Ajmer, to Nangal Chaudhery in South Haryana and took a left turn to reach Satnali to meet Saraswati coming from North to move to Didwana Lake and further south.

DWH

Deepwater Horizon, oil drilling rig destroyed in an incident that resulted in a large oil spill

Edward Robert Armstrong

However, Mr Armstrong's efforts with DuPont and Sun Ship Building, owned by Sun Oil, led his ideas and basic designs to be used by the oil industry to create the Semi-submersible off shore oil rig.

Energold

Originally purchasing one IngersollRand TH60 drilling rig for coring work, over the years Company has added 11 more TH60 rigs, plus 4 other units that double as geothermal drilling rigs.

Fallout 2

The player frees both his fellow villagers from Arroyo and the Vault 13 dwellers from Enclave control and subsequently destroys the Enclave's oil rig, killing the President of the United States Richardson as well as a genetically-modified Secret Service enforcer Frank Horrigan.

Fender Telecaster

Clayton Orr "Doc" Kauffman, built a crude wooden guitar as a pickup test rig, local country players started asking to borrow it for gigs.

Fig Rig

Fig Rig is a camera stabilization device for smaller film cameras/video cameras, designed by film director Mike Figgis.

Fire at Rig 15

"Fire at Rig 15" is the 20th episode of the Supermarionation television series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons.

Flash Film Works

John Dykstra hired Flash Film Works for work on the Warner Brothers motion picture Batman and Robin, creating a digital matte painting of an ice-laden Gotham City, as well as performing some rig and wire removal work on the film.

Gambler's Lament

Moriz Winternitz considered the poem to be "most beautiful among the non–religious poems of the Rig Veda".

Hec Ramsey

He still carried a firearm, but had traded his low-slung "gunfighter" rig for a Single Action Army-type revolver with a short barrel, carried in a Cavalry draw holster.

Jane and Louise Wilson

Jane and Louise Wilson's work together includes multiscreen video installations and photo-pieces; their artworks often feature institutional spaces, for example an oil rig, the archives of the Stasi in East Berlin (the building had previously been used by the Nazis and Stalin's Russia), The Houses of Parliament, and the Apollo Pavilion in Peterlee designed by Victor Pasmore.

Japanese warship Kanrin Maru

The ship was built by the shipyard of Fop Smit at Kinderdijk in the Netherlands, where the virtually identical screw-steamship with schooner-rig Bali of the Dutch navy was also built in 1856.

John Konrad

John Konrad is the author, along with journalist Tom Shroder, of Fire on the Horizon: The Untold Story of the Gulf Oil Disaster, which chronicles the initial construction, crewmembers' existence, and eventual disaster aboard the oil rig Deepwater Horizon.

Libya–Malta relations

In 1980 an oil rig of the Italian company Saipem commissioned by Texaco to drill on behalf of the Maltese government 68 nautical miles south-east of Malta had to stop operations after being threatened by a Libyan gunboat.

Maponos

Maponos (“Great Son”) is mentioned in Gaul at Bourbonne-les-Bains (CIL 13, 05924) and at Chamalières (RIG L-100) but is attested chiefly in the north of Britain at Brampton, Corbridge (ancient Coria), Ribchester (In antiquity, Bremetenacum Veteranorum) and Chesterholm (in antiquity, Vindolanda).

Mikko Paananen

Currently Mige's rig consists of a Fender American Deluxe Jazz Bass with Seymour Duncan Basslines pickups, Fender Super Bassman heads, Fender Bassman 6x10 cabinets, various effect pedals, and an Avalon U5 DI preamp.

My Country, My Name

In the game, Johann and Yohahn are two friend who build their own country in an old oil rig, and after a big discussion, while they were choosing the country name, a small war begun to take the control of their little country.

Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 1986

Seven juries decided the winner: four regional juries (Oslo, Lillehammer, Trondheim and Vadsø), the studio audience in Stavanger, a jury composed of newspaper, radio and television journalists, and the inhabitants of the Statfjord A oil rig in the North Sea.

Oil Strike North

Eschewing the corporate power struggles of Mogul / The Troubleshooters and concentrating on more personal storylines, Oil Strike North was essentially a character study of how workers faced life on the rig and the impact it had on the lives of their families and loved ones.

OSC OSCar

Ultravox used one for the solo on Love's Great Adventure, and it is used for the bass on Stevie Wonder's Skeletons, Jean-Michel Jarre's Revolutions Overture, Seaweed (British musician) of Ozric Tentacles used one in his rig and perhaps most notably on Do They Know It's Christmas.

Proa

The sloop rig only begins to show an advantage with small angles of attack, such as encountered when close-hauled.

The traditional sail used on the proa was the crab-claw sail, which generates far more lift than the more common triangular sloop rig used on small boats, particularly when reaching.

Reinsurance

This resulted in the same loss going around the market thereby artificially inflating market loss figures of big claims (such as the Piper Alpha oil rig).

STABO

The STABO rig served two main functions: it was itself an extraction harness and also served as the base for the operator's load bearing equipment in the field.

The Electric Co.

Six days prior to the Red Rocks performance, 23-year-old Bono scaled a 50-foot lighting rig holding a white flag during "The Electric Co." at the US Festival near San Bernardino, California on Memorial Day 1983, broadcast on MTV.

Thunderhorse

Thunder Horse PDQ, a semi-submersible oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico

TS State of Maine

State of Maine was called into active duty by the Maritime Administration (MARAD) following Hurricane Katrina and provided living quarters for oil rig workers, who were working to repair damaged rigs, and for Federal Law Enforcement Officers assisting in New Orleans.

Ultimate Soccer Manager

Other well-known features were to bung an opposing team for preferential market treatment, rig or betting on the outcome of the players' team matches.

Underground rocket

According to Soviet geologist Lev Derbenev, this version of the rocket, "jet drilling device", weighs 17 times less than a comparable drilling rig, requires 3 times less fuel, and has 6 to 9 times greater productivity; a single device would provide cost savings of up to 42,000 roubles

When Time Ran Out

Hank's oil-rig workers include Tiny Baker (Alex Karras), who has a wager going with cockfighting rival Sam (Pat Morita) with a prized rooster that has just been delivered to him.

Yagnopaveetham

The bearer of the yagnopaveetham is supposed to be engaged in the study of at least one Veda, with each strand representing one of the three Vedas, namely the Rig, Yajur and Saama Vedas of the Trayi Veda system (Atharva Veda was not included in the Trayi Veda system when it was in vogue).


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