1.   The steady hum of the drilling rigs and the rough growls of heavy machinery moving on the road smear the coastal quiet.

2.   Moving the drilling rig offshore was a costly enterprise.

3.   Only he knew what an effort it cost him to climb down from a helideck onto a drilling rig.

4.   But she added that she feared it would not be possible to impose planning controls below the low-water mark, where the drilling rigs would be established.

5.   Another was the Sea Rex Project, for building four offshore drilling rigs at Ingalls Shipbuilding, where the American Classic ships are being made.

6.   As an oil-refinery inspector trained to work on offshore drilling rigs, he was an expert swimmer and diver.

7.   At the time of his injury, Robison was an oil worker permanently assigned to a drilling rig mounted on a barge in the Gulf of Mexico.

8.   Bertoli and the three engineers asserted that most of the dozen Soilmec drilling rigs in Libya were outfitted with Cummins engines.

9.   Both companies own boats that deliver supplies and equipment to offshore drilling rigs and production platforms.

10.   A month into the position as a marketing communications manager for a company that maintains a database of drilling rigs worldwide, Ball said he is still adjusting.