The nations single most important oil field?

[liberal N proud]

Didn't that says something like that last September when Katrina hit the Louisiana coast?

[Ready4Change]

1. No, I think that ones in Saudi Arabia.

You must be hearing about some other field. ;)

[petronius]

2. I think technically the Gulf of Mexico is a basin,

which contains many individual fields. So even the GOM produces a lot of oil in total, the field in question (Prudhoe Bay) is the largest single field...

[Selatius]

3. The Gulf of Mexico holds the largest reserves of oil in the US, I believe

But many states have made drilling off their shores off-limits. You have to go into international waters in the path of all those damn hurricanes to get at the oil.