Less than an hour from downtown Houston, the world’s petroleum capital, the Offshore Energy Center (OEC) operates its facility, the Ocean Star. This totally unique museum and learning center is located on Galveston’s Pier 19, at Harborside Drive and.
[pdf] The Navy's current well-drilling rig is the ITWD (ISO/Air Transportable Water-Well Drill) manufactured by Ingersoll-Rand (see Figure 3). The ITWD top-head drive rig is mounted on a 4 x 4 chassis and is capable of drilling up to 1,500 feet.
[pdf] Federal and state authorities are investigating the cause of the deadly explosion and fire at a natural gas drilling rig in southeastern Oklahoma on Monday. Five workers died in what appears to be one of the country’s deadliest onshore drilling accidents.
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