[radioone]

Obama's plan for energy to "necessarily skyrocket" is proceeding right on schedule.

[combat_boots]

Each valued at?
With ?? dollars of proprietary US technology?
And how many skilled personnel?

[Logical me]

We will never get these rigs back. King Obama is destroying our oil industry.

[tcrlaf]

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.

[PastorJimCM]

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.

[sten]

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

[Sun]

But we have to depend on other countries for our oil.

[tlb]

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.