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located in close proximity dangerous

6 Say whether the following statements are true or false.
1 Area drilling superintendents often travel from rig to rig, so they
usually do not have an office in a town or city in the area.
2 Supply companies sell expendable and nonexpendable equipment
and material to the operator and the drilling contractor.
3 A logging crew runs sophisticated instruments into the hole.
These instruments sense and record formation properties.
4 A casing crew runs special pipe, casing, into the well to line, or
case, it after the rig drills a portion of the hole.
5 Floating rigs, whose pontoon-shaped hulls are submerged just
below the water's surface, require barge engineers to keep the rig
stable and trim while it is at work or being moved.
6 Drilling crews call their shifts "routes".
7 The derrickman has an escape device, so that he or she can
quickly exit the monkeyboard in an emergency.
8 A drilling contractor is an individual or a company that owns from
one to dozens of drilling rigs.
9 Floating offshore rigs use anchors or dynamic positioning, which
involves advanced computer-assisted equipment and special
propellers (thrusters) to hold them in position on the water's
surface.
10 The monkeyboard is a large platform in the bottom of drilling rig.

7 Fill in the gaps.

a) offshore rigs d) roustabouts g) offshore installation manager
b) rig superintendent e) radio gear h) crane operator

c) radio operators f) floating rigs i) semisubmersibles

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