With Off Shore Drilling Moratorium In Gulf Of Mexico Idled Oil Rigs Are Moving To Brazil

As pointed out previously, now that Obama has implemented his ‘moratorium‘ on offshore oil drilling, many of the idled oil rigs are being moved to other locations that are allowing oil exploration. One such place is Brazil.

Brazil is looking to become a major player in the oil industry and will gladly accept the oil rigs and the tens of thousands of jobs that go with them. Via Gateway Pundit:

Barack Obama’s oil drilling moratorium will cost tens of thousands of American jobs. But, not everyone will suffer.

Oil companies are planning on moving their rigs from the Gulf of Mexico to South America off the coast of Brazil where the government is more friendly to energy corporations.

Reuters reported, via Free Republic:

Brazil could benefit from the BP Gulf of Mexico spill as a U.S. moratorium on offshore drilling boosts available rigs for the country’s deep water oil exploration program.

Even as an ecological catastrophe makes the future of U.S. offshore drilling less certain, Brazil is plowing ahead with a $220 billion five-year plan to tap oil fields even deeper than BP’s (BP.L) ill-fated Gulf well, which is still leaking crude.

With an estimated 35 rigs idled in the Gulf of Mexico, Brazil is already receiving inquiries from companies looking to move their rigs here, where vast discoveries in recent years may soon turn the country into a major crude exporter.

Once the rigs move to Brazil, they won’t return any time soon.