Rigs

Infrastructure ● 2 rigs for development and appraisal wells 25 Barrels of Oil Per Day (000's) 4 20 # of Rigs 3 15 2 10 1 5 Conversion Process 0 0 Mar-04 May-04 Mar-05 May-05 Mar-06 May-06

Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2010

Rigs in the Gulf provide habitat and structure for invertebrates and fish, according to the LDWF.

Susan Buchanan: Louisiana Reef Fund Plundered During Budget Balancing Susan Buchanan 2011

And … the Rigs needed to get at this deep oil are just not available in any significant numbers.

Think Progress » Drilling Is Not The Solution To Create Jobs And Reduce Reliance On Foreign Oil 2010

And to get to the Patricia Cornwells at the airport's WH Smith you must first squeeze past shelves of books on all things crude, from Deepwater Horizon to a memoir called Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs subtitle: She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse.

Can Scotland pay its own way? 2011

Rigs in Norway and Brazil are equipped with the remote-control devices, which can trigger the blowout preventers from a lifeboat in the event the electric cables connecting the valves to the drilling rig are damaged.

Leaking Oil Well Lacked Safeguard Device 2010

It takes an addict's will to deny the obvious: Rigs like this will break, and break catastrophically.

Wendy Gordon: The Gulf Spill: Hitting Bottom in Our Addiction to Oil 2010

Rigs registered in other countries, such as the Marshall Islands-flagged Deepwater Horizon, get a six-hour review.

Oil spill shows difficulty the Coast Guard faces as it balances traditional tasks with post-9/11 missions 2010

Rigs in Norway and Brazil are equipped with the remote-control devices, which can trigger the blowout preventers from a lifeboat in the event the electric cables connecting the valves to the drilling rig are damaged.

Leaking Oil Well Lacked Safeguard Device 2010

It takes an addict's will to deny the obvious: Rigs like this will break, and break catastrophically.

Wendy Gordon: The Gulf Spill: Hitting Bottom in Our Addiction to Oil 2010

Rigs won't wait idly for six months, they'll move overseas to places like West Africa or Brazil and take jobs with them.

Bobby Jindal Asks Obama To End Moratorium On Deepwater Drilling 2010