Here's a map of all of the major oil and gas rigs and wells in and around the Gulf of Mexico courtesy of Scott Hanold of RBC Capital Markets. The shaded beige area was the expected path of ...

BP's reputation at risk after oil rig explosion (The Telegraph / United Kingdom) BP's Gulf of Mexico Plans Unlikely to Be Set Back by Rig Blast (Bloomberg Businessweek) Sunken Drilling Rig in Gulf ...

A massive operation is under way in and around the Gulf of Mexico to halt a leak from a blown-out oil well and prevent the spread of the ... to be leaking from the site of the Deepwater Horizon rig ...

The active number of drilling rigs continues to grow thanks to increasing activity in Texas and the Gulf of ... New Mexico is next with 89 rigs. Despite this week's jump, the oil rig count is ...

On the surface, offshore oil rigs are ... heard about the Rigs to Reefs program.” Hazelwood estimates that there are between 500 and 600 reefed rigs in the Gulf of Mexico alone.

Oil wells in the Gulf of Mexico supply about 2 million barrels of oil a day, or 15 percent of US production. (Bloomberg) -- Inside more than a thousand offshore drilling rigs and oil production ...