I was a-wonderin'

I saw an article on Drudge that 109 oil platforms had been destroyed in the Gulf of Mexico by the two recent hurricanes. I thought 109 seemed like a lot of oil platforms so I tried to find out how many oil platforms existed in the Gulf of Mexico. So far I've been able to fin in a 2004 Houston Chronicle article that "more than 100 companies operate the thousands of oil and gas platforms in the Gulf."

More information as I gather it...