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A drilling rig is seen near Kennedy, Texas, Wednesday, May 9, 2012. A UTSA report says South Texas's Eagle Ford Shale oil and gas bonanza supported nearly 48,000 jobs last year while creating overnight boom towns cashing in on a $25 billion economic windfall. The energy rush that started in 2008 mushroomed into nearly 1,700 wells last year.
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  • A drilling rig is seen near Kennedy, Texas, Wednesday, May 9, 2012. A UTSA report says South Texas's Eagle Ford Shale oil and gas bonanza supported nearly 48,000 jobs last year while creating overnight boom towns cashing in on a $25 billion economic windfall. The energy rush that started in 2008 mushroomed into nearly 1,700 wells last year.
  • A drilling rig is seen near Kennedy, Texas, Wednesday, May 9, 2012. A UTSA report says South Texas's Eagle Ford Shale oil and gas bonanza supported nearly 48,000 jobs last year while creating overnight boom towns cashing in on a $25 billion economic windfall. The energy rush that started in 2008 mushroomed into nearly 1,700 wells last year.
  • A drilling rig is seen near Kennedy, Texas, Wednesday, May 9, 2012. A UTSA report says South Texas's Eagle Ford Shale oil and gas bonanza supported nearly 48,000 jobs last year while creating overnight boom towns cashing in on a $25 billion economic windfall. The energy rush that started in 2008 mushroomed into nearly 1,700 wells last year.
  • A drilling rig is seen near Kennedy, Texas, Wednesday, May 9, 2012. A UTSA report says South Texas's Eagle Ford Shale oil and gas bonanza supported nearly 48,000 jobs last year while creating overnight boom towns cashing in on a $25 billion economic windfall. The energy rush that started in 2008 mushroomed into nearly 1,700 wells last year.
  • A drilling rig is seen near Kennedy, Texas, Wednesday, May 9, 2012. A UTSA report says  South Texas's Eagle Ford Shale oil and gas bonanza supported nearly 48,000 jobs last year while creating overnight boom towns cashing in on a $25 billion economic windfall. The energy rush that started in 2008 mushroomed into nearly 1,700 wells last year.
  • FILE - In this May 7, 2012 file photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, CNOOC 981, the first deep-water drilling rig developed in China, is pictured at 320 kilometers (200 miles) southeast of Hong Kong in the South China Sea. The China National Offshore Oil Corp's sixth-generation semi-submersible rig operates at a water depth of 1,500 meters (yards), Xinhua said. The drill is ready to start production in the South China Sea Wednesday, May 9, 2012 amid an ongoing standoff with the Philippines in another section of the contested waters.
  • A Transocean Ltd. offshore oil rig is titled to one side in the Guanabara Bay in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, April  29, 2012. Rio de Janeiro's port captain says that an inclination of three degrees prompted a Saturday night evacuation of about 100 workers from the oil platform. The port captain's office released in a statement that stated no petroleum has leaked from the platform owned by the U.S. firm, no one was hurt and navigation has not been affected.
  • The Turkish (R) and break-away Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (L) flags hand in front of an oil rig platform during a ground-breaking ceremony in the village of Sygkrasi, near Famagusta, where the state-run Turkish Petroleum Corporation (TPOA) bored their first onshore probe on April 26, 2012. Turkey began its first exploratory oil and gas drilling in the breakaway northern sector of the divided Cyprus on April 26, amid a dispute over rights to the island's minerals.
  • Turkey's Energy Minister (2L) Taner Yildiz points as he stands next to Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu (3R) and Turkish-Cypriot Prime Minister Irsen Kucuk (L), on an oil rig platform during a ground-breaking ceremony in the village of Sygkrasi, near Famagusta, where the state-run Turkish Petroleum Corporation (TPOA) bored their first onshore probe on April 26, 2012. Turkey began its first exploratory oil and gas drilling in the breakaway northern sector of the divided Cyprus on April 26, amid a dispute over rights to the island's minerals.
  • Turkey's Energy Minister (2R), Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu (4R) and Turkish-Cypriot Prime Minister Irsen Kucuk (R), attend a ceremony an oil rig platform during a ground-breaking ceremony in the village of Sygkrasi, near Famagusta, where the state-run Turkish Petroleum Corporation (TPOA) bored their first onshore probe on April 26, 2012. Turkey began its first exploratory oil and gas drilling in the breakaway northern sector of the divided Cyprus on April 26, amid a dispute over rights to the island's minerals.
  • Turkey's Energy Minister (3L) Taner Yildiz points as he stands next to Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu (4R) and Turkish-Cypriot Prime Minister Irsen Kucuk (L), on an oil rig platform during a ground-breaking ceremony in the village of Sygkrasi, near Famagusta, where the state-run Turkish Petroleum Corporation (TPOA) bored their first onshore probe on April 26, 2012. Turkey began its first exploratory oil and gas drilling in the breakaway northern sector of the divided Cyprus on April 26, amid a dispute over rights to the island's minerals.
  • Turkey's Energy Minister (3L) Taner Yildiz waves as he stands next to Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu on an oil rig platform during a ground-breaking ceremony in the village of Sygkrasi, near Famagusta, where the state-run Turkish Petroleum Corporation (TPOA) bored their first onshore probe on April 26, 2012. Turkey began its first exploratory oil and gas drilling in the breakaway northern sector of the divided Cyprus on April 26, amid a dispute over rights to the island's minerals.
  • A man waves the Venezuelan national flag atop an oil rig during an opposition protest on the 39th day of a general strike 09 January 2002 in Caracas. With a partial shutdown of banks and new protests, two government supporters were shot and wounded 09 January. The Venezuelan opposition wants to pressure President Hugo Chavez into resigning or calling snap elections.
  • In this picture taken April 5, 2012 Piotr Puacz, a jobless electrician, speaks, saying that shale gas is a good alternative to coal and oil running short and expensive, in his vegetable garden just 300 meters (yards) from a shale gas exploration rig of the Talisman Energy Inc. in Szymkowo, Poland. Talisman is one among some two dozen international firms exploring shale gas deposits in Poland, which is hoping the fossil fuel will help cut 70-percent dependence on expensive Russian imports.
  • A layer of oil is seen in the water near the French energy giant Total's Elgin rig, 150 miles (240 kms) from Aberdeen in eastern Scotland, in the North Sea on April 2, 2012. Total plans to send a helicopter to inspect the platform in the next few days to ensure it is safe before beginning work to cap a well that has leaked explosive gas for more than a week, two industry sources close to the matter said on April 2. Officials from the French operator of the oil and gas platform were due to meet Britain's health and safety executive on April 2 to discuss the risks involved in sending humans to the platform.
  • Greenpeace activists work aboard the Koningin Juliana boat near the French energy giant Total's Elgin rig, 150 miles (240 kms) from Aberdeen in eastern Scotland, in the North Sea on April 2, 2012. Total plans to send a helicopter to inspect the platform in the next few days to ensure it is safe before beginning work to cap a well that has leaked explosive gas for more than a week, two industry sources close to the matter said on April 2. Officials from the French operator of the oil and gas platform were due to meet Britain's health and safety executive on April 2 to discuss the risks involved in sending humans to the platform.
  • A Greenpeace flag is seen aboard the Koningin Juliana boat near the French energy giant Total's Elgin rig, 150 miles (240 kms) from Aberdeen in eastern Scotland, in the North Sea on April 2, 2012. Total plans to send a helicopter to inspect the platform in the next few days to ensure it is safe before beginning work to cap a well that has leaked explosive gas for more than a week, two industry sources close to the matter said on April 2. Officials from the French operator of the oil and gas platform were due to meet Britain's health and safety executive on April 2 to discuss the risks involved in sending humans to the platform.
  • A journalist films near the French energy giant Total's Elgin rig, 150 miles (240 kms) from Aberdeen in eastern Scotland, in the North Sea on April 2, 2012. Total plans to send a helicopter to inspect the platform in the next few days to ensure it is safe before beginning work to cap a well that has leaked explosive gas for more than a week, two industry sources close to the matter said on April 2. Officials from the French operator of the oil and gas platform were due to meet Britain's health and safety executive on April 2 to discuss the risks involved in sending humans to the platform.
  • Chemical and Toxic expert, Manfred Santen of Germany takes air samples aboard the Greenpeace boat, ''Koningin Juliana'' near the French energy giant Total's Elgin rig, 150 miles (240 kms) from Aberdeen in eastern Scotland, in the North Sea  on April 2, 2012. Total plans to send a helicopter to inspect the platform in the next few days to ensure it is safe before beginning work to cap a well that has leaked explosive gas for more than a week, two industry sources close to the matter said on April 2. Officials from the French operator of the oil and gas platform were due to meet Britain's health and safety executive on April 2 to discuss the risks involved in sending humans to the platform.
  • Chemical and Toxic expert, Manfred Santen of Germany takes air samples aboard the Greenpeace boat, ''Koningin Juliana'' near the French energy giant Total's Elgin rig, 150 miles (240 kms) from Aberdeen in eastern Scotland, in the North Sea  on April 2, 2012. Total plans to send a helicopter to inspect the platform in the next few days to ensure it is safe before beginning work to cap a well that has leaked explosive gas for more than a week, two industry sources close to the matter said on April 2. Officials from the French operator of the oil and gas platform were due to meet Britain's health and safety executive on April 2 to discuss the risks involved in sending humans to the platform.
  • Greenpeace activists hold a banner on a boat near the French energy giant Total's Elgin rig, 150 miles (240 kms) from Aberdeen in eastern Scotland, in the North Sea on April 2, 2012. Total plans to send a helicopter to inspect the platform in the next few days to ensure it is safe before beginning work to cap a well that has leaked explosive gas for more than a week, two industry sources close to the matter said on April 2. Officials from the French operator of the oil and gas platform were due to meet Britain's health and safety executive on April 2 to discuss the risks involved in sending humans to the platform.
  • A photo taken on April 2, 2012, shows French energy giant Total's Elgin rig, 150 miles (240 kms) from Aberdeen in eastern Scotland, in the North Sea. Total plans to send a helicopter to inspect the platform in the next few days to ensure it is safe before beginning work to cap a well that has leaked explosive gas for more than a week, two industry sources close to the matter said on April 2. Officials from the French operator of the oil and gas platform were due to meet Britain's health and safety executive on April 2 to discuss the risks involved in sending humans to the platform.
  • A photo taken on April 2, 2012 shows French energy giant Total's Elgin rig, 150 miles (240 kms) from Aberdeen in eastern Scotland, in the North Sea. Total plans to send a helicopter to inspect the platform in the next few days to ensure it is safe before beginning work to cap a well that has leaked explosive gas for more than a week, two industry sources close to the matter said on April 2. Officials from the French operator of the oil and gas platform were due to meet Britain's health and safety executive on April 2 to discuss the risks involved in sending humans to the platform.
  • A photo taken on April 2, 2012 shows French energy giant Total's Elgin rig, 150 miles (240 kms) from Aberdeen in eastern Scotland, in the North Sea. Total plans to send a helicopter to inspect the platform in the next few days to ensure it is safe before beginning work to cap a well that has leaked explosive gas for more than a week, two industry sources close to the matter said on April 2. Officials from the French operator of the oil and gas platform were due to meet Britain's health and safety executive on April 2 to discuss the risks involved in sending humans to the platform.
  • A picture taken on March 24, 2012 shows cranes on the oil rig of the petrol firm Repsol, on the coast of the Spanish Canary island of Tenerife. Spain's deficit-laden government approved on March 16, 2012 oil exploration by Repsol YPF SA off the Canary Islands despite opposition by the archipelago, which fears deterring tourists. Repsol, exploring the area in a consortium with Australia's Woodside Petroleum Ltd. and RWE AG of Germany, has said it hopes to begin drilling within two years. The regional government of the Canaries has already stated its opposition to the project, fearing damage to the tourism industry. The archipelago is Spain's second most popular tourism destination after Catalonia.
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A drilling rig is seen near Kennedy, Texas, Wednesday, May 9, 2012. A UTSA report says South Texas's Eagle Ford Shale oil and gas bonanza supported nearly 48,000 jobs last year while creating overnight boom towns cashing in on a $25 billion economic windfall. The energy rush that started in 2008 mushroomed into nearly 1,700 wells last year.
Credit: Eric Gay/AP Date: May 09, 2012
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