My company owns seven of them. I'm not sure we'll look that hard for them. They're located a couple hundred feet from their previous location, except they're now artificial reefs.
So if a platform goes, what is the environmental consequence? Will a large amount of oil leak into the Gulf?
thank you for the interjection of a little 'silver lining'. I've heard so much gloom and doom it makes me nuts (or at least nuttier than usual). Yes this was a tragedy, but there will be some positives that result. Your artificial reefs are one. They will be a boon to sportfishing eventually. There will also be a boom for those people in the construction business rebuilding all the lost homes. Another boost for the steel industry manufacturing the materials needed to replace the lost oil rigs and rebar for all the bridge repairs. It makes me nuts that the MSM focuses entirely on the negative and the loss as if their assumption is that everyone is going to stand around and wallow in self-pity. Yeah, gas pricies will go up for awhile, but the market will bring them back. Yeah, people are homeless right now, but most of them won't choose to stay that way. Yeah, it is definately a tough time for those folks down there, but life will go on, and my wager is that the positive after affects will outweigh the negative in the long run.
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.--Theodore Roosevelt"