Posted on 07/20/2011 6:09:18 PM PDT by radioone
Ten oil rigs have left the Gulf of Mexico since the Obama Administration imposed a moratorium on deepwater oil and gas drilling in May 2010, according to documentation the Pelican Institute obtained from Sen. David Vitter’s (R-La.) office.
The ten rigs named in the document are: Marinas, Discover Americas, Ocean Endeavor, Ocean Confidence, Stena Forth, Clyde Bourdeaux, Ensco 8503, Deep Ocean Clarion, Discover Spirit, and Amirante. The rigs have left the Gulf for locations in Egypt, Congo, French Guiana, Liberia, Nigeria and Brazil.
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Each valued at?
With ?? dollars of proprietary US technology?
And how many skilled personnel?
But... But...
The whacko libs keep screaming that Obama is APPROVING OIL LEASES?
HOW CAN THIS BE??
Oh wait.. He’s approving LEASES, but not the actual DRILLING.
I understand that the licenses from these rigs give ‘DC’ a lot of money - second only to FICA.
When the Noble rig went to Brazil (if I remember correctly) the US lost $276,000/day in fees. I wonder how much more our POTUS has ‘helped’ the rich save money and keep “rich peoples’” money out of our country.
The value of them is the oil wells they can drill. Obastard’s plan to destroy the US marches on.
Ten huh? Funny... that was the exact number GBeck said would leave
Yea... He’s a crazy nut job... Unlike president peas prize... He’s soooo supah smaht
The all-in rate to operate one of those rigs each day is about $1 million. A typical deepwater well costs $125 to $150 million.
10 rigs, $1mm/day each, 365 days/year economic loss for the US economy.
That is approaching $4 billion reduction in annual US GDP due to loss of these rigs, not to mention loss of all the ancillary businesses and services that thrive from the related industrial activity. Related GM pickup truck sales alone would be a very significant loss.
Dick Omullah is intentionally wrecking the economy of the USA.
But we have to depend on other countries for our oil.
Weekly Rig Count July 15, 2011
New jackup increase offshore rig supply
The supply of worldwide mobile offshore drilling units has increased by one to 804 following the delivery of a newbuild jackup. However, the contracted rig count is unchanged at 622, leading to a slightly lower global fleet utilization rate of 77.4 percent.
The US Gulf of Mexico offshore drilling rig supply is unchanged at 122 units, while the contracted rig count has decreased by one to 63. As a result, the fleet utilization rate is now 51.6 percent.
Today Last Week Month Ago Year Ago
Total Rigs in Drilling Fleet 122 122 122 122
Rigs Under Contract 63 64 67 70
Rigs Without Contract 59 58 55 52
Fleet Utilization Rate 51.6% 52.5% 54.9% 57.4%
http://www.ods-petrodata.com/odsp/weekly_rig_count.php
As I read that the rigs moved were surplus.
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