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We're getting murdered out there right now, especially in the last six months. Just in the Permian Basin, about two rigs a week are hit.

Brad Roberts

The U.S. is spending a lot of money getting these rigs back up and running. We could see prices pull back to $64.

Ashok Sekar

As many as 4,000 oil rigs in the gulf coast are most likely impacted by this storm.

Martha Rowe Mitchell

When I drive home to Longmont, I can see drilling rigs in every direction. Do we want to drill in everyone's backyard?

Jim Martin

We can reduce the effect of future disruptions by reducing our dependence on oil, not putting up more rigs and drilling our special places. The fact is, we cannot drill our way to oil independence.

Carl Pope

I continue to like oil service plays and this one fits that bill real good. I think they're in a good spot in which they have relatively high horsepower rigs. With drilling demand currently, those are more likely to be in demand.

Robert Ford

Right now we have a supply picture that is fully utilized, even with record wells drilled, record rigs.

Chris Mcgill

The decision is made, but since it's such a big project, it has to go through the formal process. The way the market is for equipment and drilling rigs, we are going to work everything simultaneously.

Ali Moshiri

We have confirmed at least 20 rigs or platforms missing, either sunk or adrift, and one confirmed fire where a rig was.

Robert Reed

We need to see greater predictability and certainty before the stock would look attractive again. I think earnings estimates are going to come down substantially this year and probably next year if, in fact, they go ahead with the de-mothballing of two rigs.

Philip Dodge

I know that there were a number of deepwater rigs that were directly in the path and when they conducted flyovers that did not appear to have damage.

Sara Banaszak

I don't want to go to sea, ... We'd have to find a course to steer through those oil rigs - some of them were damaged in Katrina and haven't been repaired and still don't have any lights. I don't want to be out there playing around with those rigs.

Larry Wade

We have oil prices that will definitely have an impact on the markets. Oil prices are up this morning as some rigs are evacuated, so that could cause some supply fears.

Terry Milne

We have secured the rigs necessary to complete our program, a program that focuses on more development activity and less risk. The current forecasted activity level calls for 391 wells, with increased activity in each region including expanded drilling on each of the acquisition plays purchased in 2005.

Dan O. Dinges

The drilling rigs that we have in the Gulf have basically ceased operations ... and moved to a safe location.

Jeff Moore

We don't need to spoil what we have with a bunch of oil rigs.

Chris Moore

We observed smoke from the Chinese rigs and we believe that production started on Tuesday.

Akira Chiba

This article reaffirms the fact that there is a shortage of drilling rigs especially in Colorado and we are in a position to help satisfy that demand.

David Alexander

We have a very active conservation program. We've had speakers who talk to us about milfoil. We clean our rigs before and after putting them in. If we get caught (with milfoil fragments), it's a fine.

Charlie Wilson

Until divers go down and actually examine the rigs and engineers can make estimates on the repair times, we just won't know.

Jason Alderman

The market is still very cautious about the damage caused by Hurricane Rita, and they're just digesting new information filtering in about damage to oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico.

Mark Pervan

We have an extremely high demand. We have over 800 wells in which we cannot currently assign rigs to which would be in the order of four times larger than anything this time of year.

Gene Stahl

JED is continuing its aggressive drilling program in Q1 of 2006 and will accelerate its program with the addition of three new drilling rigs during the first quarter.

Al Williams