- •Unit 5 Companies and Individuals Involved in Drilling1 Text 1. Companies involved in Drilling Process
- •Operating Companies
- •Introductory exercises
- •Express the same in English:
- •Say whether the following statements are true or false.
- •Answer the questions.
- •Tell the class what you have learned from the text, using the outline:
- •Role play
- •Service and Supply Companies
- •Introductory exercises
- •Complete the sentences:
- •Text 3. Drilling Crew
- •Introductory exercises
- •Complete the sentences:
- •Say whether the following statements are true or false. Correct the wrong ones:
- •4. Answer the questions:
- •Text 4. Other Rig Workers
- •Introductory exercises
- •2. Say whether the following statements are true or false. Correct the wrong ones:
- •Practicing in translation
- •Give written translation of the text. Rig personnel
- •3. Give sight-translation of the text. The International Association of Drilling Contractors
Introductory exercises
Match the words with their definitions:
1. [ ] company representative |
A) a general worker on the rig whose duty includes unloading supplies from boats to the rig.
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2. [ ] drilling contractor |
B) a self-propelled floating offshore drilling unit, which permits a well to be drilled from it.
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3. [ ] area drilling superintendent |
C) a blowout preventer, placed on the seafloor for use by a floating offshore drilling rig.
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4. [ ] offshore installation manager |
D) an employee on the drill site, who supervises interests of the operating company.
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5. [ ] roustabout |
E) an employee on a semi-submersible rig whose main duty is to monitor and control the stability of the rig.
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6. [ ] drill ship |
F) a scientist who gathers and interprets data pertaining to the rocks of the earth’s crust.
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7. [ ] subsea blowout preventer |
G) a qualified and certified person with marine and drilling knowledge who is in charge of all operations on a MODU
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8. [ ] barge control operator |
H) an employee, whose job is to manage and coordinate the activities of rigs
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9. [ ] geologist |
I) an individual or group that owns a drilling rig or rigs and contracts services for drilling wells.
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2. Say whether the following statements are true or false. Correct the wrong ones:
The operating company has an employee on the drill site to supervise its interests.
The company representative and the rig superintendent usually work separately.
The job of an area drilling superintendent is to manage and coordinate the activities of the many rigs the drilling company has working in a particular area or region.
The contractor requires more personnel on land than offshore.
Roustabouts are general workers on the rig whose duties include unloading supplies from boats to the rig.
Crew members place the equipment on the seafloor and operate it from the rig on the water’s surface.
Operating companies, drilling contractors, and service and supply companies hire geologists, accountants, bookkeepers, sales personnel, and trainers.
3. Say what you have learned from the text using the outline:
A company representative
An area drilling superintendent
Offshore personnel
Office personnel
Make up a plan of the text and report on it in brief.
ROLE PLAY
Imagine that you work in a foreign company, which requires specialists of different profile. Your task is to say what vacancies there are at the personnel department and what duties must perform all workers.
Practicing in translation
Translate the following word combinations as fast as possible.
operating company, drilling contractor, буровое долото, to supervise the company’s interests, area drilling superintendent, to fill out the proposal, Международная Ассоциация Буровых Подрядчиков, растворители, turnkey job, огнетушитель, service and supply companies, поставщик провизии, a casing crew, первая медицинская помощь, to keep the rig stable, обсадная труба, subsea equipment supervisors, roustabouts, expendable items