Shut In

Goldman said in a note that the scenario "illustrates how difficult it is to bring the shut-in Libyan production and exports back online, especially given the absence of foreign engineers." ❋ Guy Chazan (2011)

The net production impact of the shut-in is expected to be around 26,700 barrels of oil equivalent per day, the company said. ❋ Alexis Flynn (2011)

Companies were returning workers to offshore rigs that had been evacuated in recent days as a precaution and were beginning to restart some shut-in oil and natural gas output. ❋ David Bird (2011)

That's why we tracked down O'Brien to talk about what it was like trying to neck with Elijah Wood, how to spend an SNL summer break, and why Patricia Clarkson has forced him to become a shut-in. ❋ Hulu.com (2011)

Government data showed a little more than 87,000 barrels of oil is still shut-in, about one-tenth of the volume at the peak impact from the storm. ❋ David Bird (2011)

This statement, however, seemed as outrageous as a shaft of sunlight in a shut-in's shade-drawn room. ❋ Robert Koehler (2011)

A mischievous comic tone is also set right away, so that by the time we meet eccentric shut-in heiress Penelope Stamp (a luminous Rachel Weisz), it fits right in. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Transocean's failed blowout preventer failed to shut-in the well after they lost control. ❋ Robert L. Cavnar (2011)

The next shows us a crazy shut-in obsessed by TV yet discovering romance (this is the second-best tale in the book), followed by another drawn metaphor, about a boy chained to a stone of worries, and then an abused child. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Analysts estimate that more than half of Libya's almost 1.6 million barrels per day in production is being shut-in, and the disruption in exports has sent global oil prices skyrocketing. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The real solution will be for such low prices to encourage more demand or, more immediately, for gas producers to shut-in some production, like Chesapeake Energy did last week. ❋ Liam Denning (2012)

Enter shut-in Welton, a plague infected "dragger" who lives (barely) in the basement as a cog in that mysterious wheel. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Doug, too, is a runaway, fleeing a home life that has collapsed after his 15-year-old daughter's death, a trauma that has left his wife Lois (Melissa Leo) an anxiety-ridden shut-in. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Later tonight the Democrats will have a shut-in where they can all share their most favored quotes from the book given to Obama from Hugo Chavez, "Open Veins of Latin America" and boast about ramming through Sotomayer. windrider ❋ Unknown (2009)

Also, the survey doesn't count informal volunteer work, such as when a neighbor cares for a shut-in by purchasing groceries and doing other errands, he says. ❋ Unknown (2011)