Ink Industry Hopeful, Despite Adversities

As of Dec. 29, 2005, almost 20 percent of the yearly production of oil (approximately 547.5 million barrels) and more than 15 percent of the yearly production of gas (approximately 3.65 Tcf—trillion cubic feet) in the Gulf was shut-in, according to the Mineral Management Service, an agency of the U.S. Department of the Interior.