29 Aug 2012 This represents respectively 84.4% and 64.5% of all platforms and rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. All of these add up to a drop in supply of 1.29 million 20 Jun 2012 Are dormant oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico hulking, rusty relics that should be emanate from these old oil rigs or storms could knock them down. 8 Apr 2011 After the BP oil spill last year, Obama shut down all offshore oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, idling 78,000 jobs and cutting off billions of dollars 19 Apr 2011 How Science Stopped BP's Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill that have emerged in the year since the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded and set pipe-shearing rams had not fully slammed shut, allowing oil to continue spewing. Cables wrapped in yellow tape snaked down from the ceiling, sprawling onto 1 Jun 2010 oil-rig The size of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is hard to conceive. Just one Louisiana's shrimp industry already is shut down. As of May 18, 7 May 2010 Senator Inhofe released a statement on Gulf oil rig accident. the federal waters in the Gulf where fishing is shut down because of the spill.
Every day in the offshore Gulf of Mexico, production facilities extract, process, and the cost of deferred production alone for a Gulf-wide production shut-down might be Weather related events which effect drilling operations include tropical moratorium, shutting down all deepwater drilling rigs, including those not implicated in the BP spill. Indeed, the centrality of oil and gas exploration to the Gulf
Obama Shuts Down All Gulf Rigs There are 33-deep water oil rigs under US jurisdiction in the Gulf of Mexico and president Obama has just shut them all down. Operations are over, suspended, for six months or until a presidential commission into the Deepwater Horizon disaster has completed its work. Reports out of the US suggest Chevron, Shell, BP and Exxon have also started evacuating oil rigs in the gulf and shutting down production. Natural gas production. Shell has shut down drilling at a deepwater rig in the Gulf of Mexico after a leak of "base oil", just 26 miles from the site of last year's disastrous oil spill at BP's Macondo well. The leak was reported at Shell's Appomattox discovery, just 26 miles from the site of last year's disastrous spill from BP's Deepwater Horizon rig. The Coast Guard was working with BP, with which the rig is under contract, to shut down the fire's fuel source: the rig's well that can produce 13,000 gallons of raw crude oil an hour.
26 Aug 2017 Oil companies shut down operations in parts of Texas and the Gulf of Mexico as they braced for the imminent arrival of Hurricane Harvey. 6 Aug 2014 The difference is that if you look down through the metal grate under your feet, you can see the bright blue Gulf of Mexico a few hundred feet Oil rigs are being shut down as Tropical Storm Isaac bears down. Isaac threatens Gulf oil production. By Chris Isidore August 27, 2012: 3:22 PM ET. Tropical
Shell has shut down drilling at a deepwater rig in the Gulf of Mexico after a leak of "base oil", just 26 miles from the site of last year's disastrous oil spill at BP's Macondo well. The leak was reported at Shell's Appomattox discovery, just 26 miles from the site of last year's disastrous spill from BP's Deepwater Horizon rig. The Coast Guard was working with BP, with which the rig is under contract, to shut down the fire's fuel source: the rig's well that can produce 13,000 gallons of raw crude oil an hour. While it's life-threatening for residents, the Gulf Coast's refineries -- which turn crude oil into gasoline, heating oil and jet fuel -- were mostly out of the storm's path. Shutting down the oil and gas wells also is a complicated procedure. “Those wells don’t just turn off like a light switch,” Smith said. Offshore oil fields often comprise several wells. Both benchmarks jumped earlier in the session as more oil producers pulled employees out of Tropical Storm Gordon’s path and shut-in 9 percent of U.S. Gulf of Mexico oil and gas production on Tuesday. But the storm, expected to make a nighttime landfall as a category 1 hurricane, Offshore oil and gas production in the Gulf shut down for weeks. “The overall damage caused by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita has shown them to be the greatest natural disasters to oil and gas