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It operates one semi-submersible rig and 12 land rigs under its oilfield services business and manages a fleet of 5,000 buses under its logistics business.
Essar Shipping Gets SEBI's OK for Share Listing Anirban Chowdhury of Dow Jones Newswires 2011
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"First came the semi-submersible, now the fully-submersibles ... and next will be remote-controlled subs."
Colombia Finds Drug-Smuggling Sub Dan Molinski 2011
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It operates one semi-submersible rig and 12 land rigs under its oilfield services business and manages a fleet of 5,000 buses under its logistics business.
Essar Shipping Gets OK for Share Listing Anirban Chowdhury 2011
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This month, one year since the Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, the Noble Clyde Boudreaux—an ultra-deepwater semi-submersible drilling rig—will start operations off the coast of Brazil.
Time for a Cease-Fire in the War on Oil Joseph Mason 2011
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Mexican drug traffickers have already been caught using remote-controlled planes, rail cars in ventilated tunnels, semi-submersible vessels, and hidden compartments in vehicles to smuggle drugs into the United States.
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"First came the semi-submersible, now the fully-submersibles...and next will be remote-controlled subs."
Colombia Captures Smugglers' Submarine Dan Molinski 2011
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Cairn confirmed that members of the organization had breached the exclusion zone and scaled the Leiv Eriksson semi-submersible drilling vessel earlier
Greenpeace Again Scales Oil Rig Alexis Flynn 2011
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Cairn confirmed that members of the organization had breached the exclusion zone and scaled the Leiv Eriksson semi-submersible drilling vessel earlier
Greenpeace Again Scales Oil Rig Alexis Flynn 2011
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Mexican drug traffickers have already been caught using remote-controlled planes, rail cars in ventilated tunnels, semi-submersible vessels, and hidden compartments in vehicles to smuggle drugs into the United States.
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A controlled burn is seen in the distance behind the Seadrill West Sirius platform, an ultra-deepwater semi-submersible rig assigned by Devon Energy and Seadrill to operate for BP, near the source of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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