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There are currently 785 operating offshore oil rigs throughout the world, and another 709 rigs that are being built, or are not currently operating.

This company, for example, has 7 new offshore rigs being built currently.

This is the Ocean Nugget, a rig operated by Diamond.

First built in 1975, this one rig can produce around 1,170 barrels of oil per day. That’s a lot of barrels.

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In 2013, the world as a whole consumed more than 3,500,000,000 tons of oil. This is about a 14% increase since the year 2000.

The united states led all other nations in 2013, with 759,000,000 tons consumed.

 

Year: 2013	Unit: Mt
United States 759
China 456
Japan 189
India 166
Russia 149
Brazil 119
Germany 98
Saudi Arabia 95
Canada 92
South Korea 90

MT= megatons, or a million tons

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As I mentioned earlier, the Deepwater Horizon spill dumped 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.

4.9 Million barrels, or…

 

1,160,755 trans-Atlantic flights

 

 

Provide gasoline for the entire U.S for 3 and a half months

 

Fuel 1000 of the largest container ships for about 90 days

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And remember these guys?

 

They are probably full of iPad’s, or IBM computer chips, maybe Canon cameras, or Volcom jeans.

 

             

 

Apple to ring in 71.5M iPhone sales in holiday quarter — analyst

 

Apple’s Sales Figures Prove A Sad Fact: There’s Still No PC As Desirable As A Mac

Mac sales make up just a tenth of Apple’s AAPL -1.59%revenue, but they’ve received a significant amount of attention following the company’s quarterly report yesterday, both from analysts and from the CEO Tim Cook himself.