The crane of this derrick barge holds a steam driven pile driver to sink pilings for a support jacket for a new oil and gas production platform in the gulf. The jackup drilling rig to the left is drilling new directional wells at the same Gulf of Mexico site. The new platform waits on a supply barge, alongside (right foreground). Estimates indicate the gulf's oil production will reach over 2.2 million barrels of oil and 13.4 billion cubic feet of gas per day by the year 2012.

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