And in Venezuela, Hugo Chavez just recently nationalized 11 oil rigs belonging to a U.S. company.
In 2005, Katrina and Hurricane Rita destroyed 109 oil platforms and five drilling rigs.
But oil rigs aren't the only thing you can expect to see being built offshore.
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Hence, nearby rigs could have to shut down if the oil spreads to them.
As the oil slick expands, however, other rigs in the Gulf could face this problem.
Many Louisianans fret that Gulf-based drilling rigs will decamp for West Africa or Brazil.
I'll be visiting one of those rigs and one of those pipelines this week.
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There were virtually no spills when Hurricane Katrina blew away offshore oil rigs in 2005.
Both of those rigs actually have lower costs of ownership than many smaller vehicles.
We're passing small mounds of waste, oil rigs and miles of brown, patchy wetlands.
Falsified safety inspections of Gulf oil rigs were reported in another government study.
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If 29 rigs are idled at the end of October, that comes to 14, 500 jobs affected.
After taking a degree in mechanical engineering, she wanted to work on oil rigs.
About the same amount of horsepower used by 3-4 OTR 18 wheel diesel rigs.
Some make and sell expensive kit for use on drilling rigs or the seabed.
This means a huge increase in the number of rigs supplied by the oil-services firms.
What concern is there at the White House about other rigs possibly doing this?
Erick climbed into the rigs, with their rooms full of dials and levers in the sky.
His father told him to revive or dump a Tulsa company that made equipment for oil rigs.
Weatherford has half its 50 drilling rigs in the Middle East and operates dozens more for clients.
In the future, it will take more rigs to recover hydrocarbons at the same rate as now.
He went to see the rigs for himself and took a cameraman to film what he saw.
This trend is quite encouraging since these rigs also have the highest day rates within the fleet.
In Katrina's aftermath a lot of attention has gone to restoring the Gulf of Mexico's oil rigs.
"We stopped spending money on stuff, whether drilling rigs or refineries or terminals or pipelines, " he says.
About 125 offshore rigs are operating now, down from 200 in early 2001, but that could change.
The company controls 48 deep water drilling rigs and currently has about a 7.5% dividend yield.
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The 3.2 million big rigs on U.S. roads today burn some 25 billion gallons of diesel annually.
These are highly mobile land rigs that can be easily moved, which reduces drilling costs for producers.
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