Traders brushed off any impact from the massive earthquake off the coast of Indonesia, where the government oil company and Exxon Mobil Corp., which produces and process natural gas there, said operations and exports were continuing as normal after brief power outages.
This is quite a bit different from the Gulf of Mexico production -- there were still plenty of problems in November trying to get all of the Gulf of Mexico back online.
I think in late October or early November, 87% of the Gulf of Mexico production was back online.
This was caused by the many, many hurricanes. Some people may have heard of some fast food restaurtants not putting tomatoes on hamburgers -- at least on the East Coast -- because the tomato harvest was devastated for December delivery.
Deep water wells would not have problems -- you are either able to seal off the well underwater or not. And they would probably run tests, after the earthquake, to check for damage.
Deep water platforms are meant to survive nasty hurricanes, let alone earthquakes [probably not as much a problem as a hurricane/typhoon].
This would be quite a bit different than if a nuke went off any where near a hi technology area, and fried all the electronics -- probably cars, stereos, cell phones, phones, radios, etc -- would all be fried by the EMP.
Is for me. The high prices changed what I did with my F-250.