The map's red, green and blue lines marked the locations of the oil drills and rigs in the gulf — or ... The oil operations off the Louisiana and Mississippi coast supply about 18 percent ...

Texas was at 287 oil and gas rigs after dropping three in the last week, Baker Hughes reported. Oklahoma had the third-highest rig count at 43 rigs, records show, followed by Louisiana at 41 rigs.

An oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Holly Beach, Louisiana. The Gulf is one of ... energy companies use loud air guns to create seismic maps. Once a large deposit is found, rigs ...

The number of rigs targeting crude oil fell by 14, while those targeting natural gas dropped by 19. Louisiana’s drilling activity saw even steeper losses. The report shows just 32 rigs operating ...

Federal authorities are investigating a leak from an underwater oil pipeline off the coast of Louisiana that may have ... the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, killing 11 people and releasing ...

Louisiana. Eleven workers died on the rig in what would become the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history. Oil flowed from the damaged Macondo well over 87 days, before it was finally capped ...