Heard yesterday that there are some 5,000 oil rigs in the Gulf which represent 1/3 of our US oil.
I heard 1,000,000 barrels of production is offline due to the storm
For those interersted.
Here is a link to a pdf document showing all of the current oil and gass assets in the Gulf. There are over 5000 production platforms today.
http://www.gomr.mms.gov/homepg/lsesale/Visual1.pdf
It's a must see.