Offshore

Offshore may refer to:

Finance and law

  • Offshoring, active movement of companies to offshore centers
  • Offshore financial centre, jurisdictions which transact financial business with non-residents
  • Offshore investment, relates to the wider financial services industry in offshore centers
  • Offshore bank, relates to the banking industry in offshore centers
  • Offshore company
  • Offshore Stock Broker, relates to stock brokers in offshore centers
  • Offshore fund, collective investment in offshore centers
  • Offshore trust, trust arranged in offshore jurisdiction
  • Technology

  • Offshore drilling, discovery and development of oil and gas resources which lie underwater through drilling a well
  • Offshore (hydrocarbons)
  • Offshore construction, construction out at sea
  • Offshore powerboat racing, powerboat racing
  • Offshore hosting, server
  • Offshore wind power, wind power in a body of water
  • Arts

  • Offshore (novel), a 1979 British novel by Penelope Fitzgerald
  • "Offshore" (song), a 1996 song by British electronic dance music act Chicane
  • Offshore (novel)

    Offshore (1979) is a novel by Penelope Fitzgerald. It won the Booker Prize for that year. It recalls her time spent on boats on the Thames in Battersea. The novel explores the liminality of people who do not belong to the land or the sea, but are somewhere in between. The epigraph, "che mena il vento, e che batte la pioggia, e che s'incontran con si aspre lingue" ("whom the wind drives, or whom the rain beats, or those who clash with such bitter tongues") comes from Canto XI of Dante's Inferno.

    List of Characters and Their Boats (in order)

    Lord Jim

  • Richard Blake, husband, aged 39
  • Laura Blake, wife, also known as Lollie
  • Maurice

  • Maurice
  • Harry, Maurice's acquaintance, who uses the boat for his own purposes but does not live on board
  • Grace

  • Nenna James, mother
  • Martha James, Nenna's teenage daughter.
  • Tilda (Matilda) James, Nenna's younger daughter, who is six years old
  • Edward James, estranged father and husband, who visits the boat only once
  • Stripey (the cat)
  • Dreadnought

  • Willis, painter, widower, 65 years old
  • Offshore (hydrocarbons)

    "Offshore", when used relative to hydrocarbons, refers to an oil, natural gas or condensate field that is under the sea, or to activities or operations carried out in relation to such a field. There are various types of platform used in the development of offshore oil and gas fields, and subsea facilities.

    Offshore exploration is performed with floating drilling units.

    References

  • Petroleum industry glossary from Saipem Spa.
  • Petroleum industry glossary from Anson Ltd
  • Wreck

    Wreck may refer to:

  • Wreck, a ceremony of initiation into the 40 et 8 club
  • Wreck (band), an American indie rock band
  • A collision of an automobile, aircraft or other vehicle
  • Shipwreck, the remains of a ship after a crisis at sea
  • Receiver of Wreck, an official of the British government whose main task is to process incoming reports of wreck
  • Rambling Wreck, a car that leads the Georgia Tech football team onto the field prior to every game in Bobby Dodd Stadium
  • WREK (FM), a radio station at Georgia Tech, named after the car
  • In ornithology, an event where large numbers of seabirds are driven inland due to adverse weather
  • "Wreck", a song by Gentle Giant from their album Acquiring the Taste
  • See also

  • All pages beginning with "Wreck"
  • All pages with titles containing Wreck
  • Wreckage (disambiguation)
  • Reck (disambiguation)
  • Wreck (album)

    Wreck is the seventh album by Unsane, released on March 20, 2012 through Alternative Tentacles.

    Track listing

    All songs written and composed by Unsane, except "Ha Ha Ha" by Flipper. 

    Personnel

  • Dave Curran bass guitar, additional vocals, design
  • Vincent Signorelli drums
  • Chris Spencer vocals, guitar, photography
  • Carl Saff mastering
  • Andrew Schneider production, mixing, recording
  • Unsane – production
  • Jammi York photography
  • References

    External links

  • Wreck at Discogs (list of releases)
  • Wreck (band)

    Wreck was an indie rock band formed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1988, and later based in Chicago. After releasing three albums the band split up in the mid-1990s, with singer/guitarist Dean Schlabowske going on to found The Waco Brothers.

    History

    The band was formed in Milwaukee in 1988, and comprised Dean Schlabowske (later of the Waco Brothers) on electric guitar and vocals, Bart Flores on drums, and Keith Brammer (from Die Kreuzen and Boy Dirt Car) on bass guitar.

    The band's first release was a self-titled EP on the Play It Again Sam label in 1989, in association with Wax Trax!, with Steve Albini producing. The Milwaukee Journal's Thor Christensen described the EP: "Guitars sound like drums, drums sound like machine guns, and vocalist Schlabowske sounds like he's just swallowed napalm". Debut album Soul Train followed in 1990, also produced by Albini, and described by Allmusic as "abstract, difficult songs...the work of a band that had no desire to compromise its creative vision". The band released second album House of Boris in 1991, by which time Kurt Moore (The Won't, Primasonic) had joined on bass guitar.

    Podcasts:

    PLAYLIST TIME:
    ×