It's just the shallow-water parts of the Gulf of Mexico. They have become less and less competitive for continued investment in our global portfolio, and we will continue to operate in the deep water.

There isn't the spare capacity to make up for the missing production in the Gulf of Mexico. OPEC used to have 4 to 5 million barrels of spare capacity. That's down to about 1.5 million barrels a day this year.

Once the storm gets in the Gulf of Mexico, there's no telling where it's going to go,

There may be more cycles of hyperventilation yet to come as Hurricane Rita blows through the Gulf of Mexico, but the DOE data for last week was a calming influence.

Almost all of the Gulf of Mexico off of the state of Florida is restricted airspace; it's where we train our military, ... The ace up my sleeve is, at this time in our nation's history, you don't want to fool around with training our military to be the absolute best - and you can't be doing those joint exercises if you've got oil rigs down there on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico.

In Southern California we are more prepared for disasters than they were in the Gulf (of Mexico) area.