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The oil rigs are clustered around the gulf of Mexico, extracting oil from under the sea floor.
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There is not one, but there numerous oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. Their purpose is to pump the oil from the oil deposits located deep within the sea bed in that region.
There are numerous oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. If you are referring to the rig that suffered the recent disaster on April 20, 2010, it was called the Deepwater Horizon.
Oil and natural gas are the most important of such resources.
BP British Petroleum is responsible for the oil spill, which occurred when one of the oil rigs blew up and ripped open a pipe, which led to oil flowing into the Gulf of Mexico.
One example: July 2008 - $325/day (Gulf of Mexico, Texas)
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Of course. Haven't you heard about the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico?
The offshore oil rigs for Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas produce over 480,000,000 barrels per year. That is about 1.3 million barrels a day.