Gulf of Mexico Oil Rigs: 1942-2005

A chronology of oil and gas rig installations in the Gulf of Mexico, showing the increased number of rigs and the greater installation depths over time, ending by displaying the location of BP's Deepwater Horizon explosion.

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[Tim Sinnott]

crud?

[SPAGHETTIMONSTER1]

crud!

[Tim Sinnott]

crud?

[crackerwv]

There are underwater ruins of past civilizations all around where these wells are and all throughout the Gulf of Mexico, in Florida, off the coast of Cuba and Jamaica. We will know about this soon in full detail.

[SPAGHETTIMONSTER1]

, yeah, that can't be good at all,.. crud! Anyways, I saw that. I was trying to see how many wells there are,(talking to friends on facebook) I thought there were about 4000 max.

crud, crud, crud, crud, crud! < better?

BTW thanks for posting! it kinda made me speechless. this looks like way more than the other one map I looked at today, and it said at that time there were over 6000 wells. do you know how many all together? and do you have a link?

[ittlebite]

Wow, What a demo!!!

[mikecorbeil]

This is a good, informative clip, but how many of this huge number of oil rigs have had accidents causing serious leaks or spills? If many have, then this information should be added and the clip would then be far more frightening for [most] people, sane people anyway. If there've been few accidents and not much oil spilled or leaked, then people can interpret the clip and few leaks as meaning that offshore oil rig operations are very seldom dangerous.

[medini2]

i have heard there are 130,000 oil rigs in the gulf of mexico...all in danger of sinking because the sea floor bed is shifting/sinking . it's all about post glacial rebound and it is a geo fragile zone.

[skybirdbird]

holy cow...

[msnelson42]

Excelent demo. Of just how serious the problem is just because we can't see them from the coastline doesn't make them go away