Damage to Gulf oil rigs mounts

[jpak]

http://www.smh.com.au/news/business/damage-to-gulf-oil-rigs-mounts/2005/09/02/1125302739885.html

Houston: Hurricane Katrina has damaged or displaced an estimated 58 Gulf of Mexico oil platforms and drilling rigs, the American Petroleum Institute has announced. Thirty of the rigs have been reported lost. No company breakdown was available, said Tim Sampson, an API spokesman.

One of the more significant reported losses of production equipment came from Houston's Apache Corp.

On Friday, Apache said it lost eight platforms that had produced 7158 barrels of oil and 12.1 million cubic feet of natural gas a day.

That is about 10 per cent of the lost oil production and 2 per cent of the shut-in gas reported earlier this week, company spokesman Bill Mintz said.

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[Syncronaut Seven]

1. Did they cap the wells and shut down the pumps

Or is the Gulf just one big oil slick right now?

[bemildred]

2. It was my understanding that things were shut down before the storm hit.

Of course Katrina might have had some ideas of her own about it.
But I don't think things were left running.