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  2. Offshore oil and gas in the United States - Wikipedia

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    For this reason, most US offshore drilling has taken place offshore Louisiana, Texas, California, and Alaska, areas with coastal onshore oil and gas fields. "Possibly in some future age, when all known petroleum fields shall have been drained of their richness, oil men may seek refuge in King Neptune's realm." - Oil & Gas Journal, 24 June 1915 [6]

  3. Offshore oil and gas in the Gulf of Mexico (United States)

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    The state of Louisiana issued its first offshore oil and gas lease in 1936, and the following year the Pure Oil Company discovered the first Louisiana offshore oil field, the Creole Field, 1.2 miles (1.9 km) from the shore of Cameron Parish, from a platform built on timber pilings in 10-to-15-foot-deep (3.0 to 4.6 m) water.

  4. Louisiana Offshore Oil Port - Wikipedia

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    The Louisiana Offshore Oil Port (LOOP) is a deepwater port in the Gulf of Mexico 29 kilometers (18 nautical miles) [1] off the coast of Louisiana near the town of Port Fourchon. LOOP provides tanker offloading and temporary storage services for crude oil transported on some of the largest tankers in the world.

  5. Offshore drilling on the Atlantic coast of the United States

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    Although no oil or gas have been produced from beneath U.S. Atlantic waters, there are active offshore fields to the south in offshore Cuba and to the north in offshore Canada. Each US state along the Atlantic coast owns as territorial waters out to three nautical miles (3.45 statute, or land miles) from the shore at mean low tide, and has ...

  6. Mad Dog oil field - Wikipedia

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    Mad Dog Oil Field is an offshore oil field located along the Sigsbee Escarpment at Green Canyon blocks 825, 826 and 782, Western Atwater Foldbelt, Gulf of Mexico. The field is located about 190 miles (310 km) south of New Orleans and 150 miles (240 km) southwest of Venice, Louisiana, United States. It is in the depth of 5,000 to 7,000 feet ...

  7. Thunder Horse Oil Field - Wikipedia

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    The field is being developed by BP plc and 25% partner ExxonMobil [1] It is the largest offshore production platform in the Gulf, with a processing capacity of 250 thousand barrels per day (40 × 10 ^ 3 m 3 /d) of oil and 200 million cubic feet per day (5,700,000 m 3 /d) of natural gas, and the field is believed to hold in excess of 1 billion barrels (160 × 10 ^ 6 m 3) of oil. [2]

  8. Offshore drilling - Wikipedia

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    Offshore oil well drilling platform, Continental Oil Co., Gulf of Mexico, 1955. Around 1891, the first submerged oil wells were drilled from platforms built on piles in the fresh waters of the Grand Lake St. Marys in Ohio. The wells were developed by small local companies such as Bryson, Riley Oil, German-American and Banker's Oil. [2]

  9. Offshore oil and gas in California - Wikipedia

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    The federal investigation, headed by the BSEE, will review oil facilities and platforms off of the Southern California coast and, subsequently, direct future action towards these offshore oil platforms. The oil platforms are surrounded by various species of fish and wildlife, topical to California, that could be impacted by the complete removal ...