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Originally Posted by TheDoc
Job ratio wise, a platform has what, 15 people on it? Even opening a few 1000 of them, and even if everyone hired was American (which is never the case), we still would not put a dent in job numbers.
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Actually, a deep water well at any given time will have 90 to 140 employees at any one time (2 shifts per day), so 180 to 280 for 2 2-week shifts that most all rigs run on. Now, that doesn't include all the 100's of others on shore skilled labor of which are required. A single deep water rig will easily account for 1200-1400 jobs each and that doesn't include pre-process, geologists, etc or post process refineries, etc...
So there could be a large number of jobs that come from allowing our companies to drill in their waters, at least for the people in Texas and Louisiana who have the skills.
