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[Ray]

Originally Posted by Raymond

Ray, please tell us how many deepwater rigs there are in existence? How many are in our gulf and what the average build time per rig is? The same thing happened in the 80's and our drilling programs were crippled for quite some time. Remember the left said it would take 5-10 years to bring ANWAR and ultra deepwater online,now it will be 20yrs!

http://rigzone.com/data/

[Ray]

Originally Posted by Big Ridge

Ray, we loaded 2 TLP's in Korea that we sent to Africa on that vessel very cool to see that being done. Have some pictures somewhere.

I have watched a couple jack-up's being loaded in Cameron on those types of vessels.

[toodeep]

do you know any angelettes or ulous smith

[Ray]

Don't know them...

[swamp snorkler]

I work in fabrication on rigs like and to build a rig that size would take ate 2 years. currently we are waiting on 2 customers to receive there permits so we can start the biggest deck that has ever been built in our yard. Some past decks we built that were pretty big just to give you an Idea we Kerr-McGee Constitution, Murphy Frontrunner, Chevron Tahiti,