At least one wind atlas covers the globe, and other wind atlases cover the EU12 countries and the European offshore regions.

Additional marine warnings were also issued for offshore regions that could be potentially affected by the hurricane, and boats were evacuated into Gulf Coast ports.

These new-generation rigs have allowed oil companies to push out into the gulf's deep offshore region.

Typically, the gulf's offshore region produces 1.5 million barrels of oil a day, or 27 percent of the nation's domestic production.

In response, the government of Newfoundland and Labrador laid claim to mineral rights in its offshore regions.

The company has operations in all major offshore regions and currently owns and operates 23 Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessels.

A huge mass of India's natural gas production comes from the western offshore regions, particularly the Mumbai High complex.

Continuing south into the offshore region beneath the Santa Barbara Channel, the Cozy Dell is found in oil wells at Molino field some 13,000 feet below the sea floor.

Information for offshore regions and tropical waters is more scarce, but widespread, if not frequent, sightings indicate the killer whale can survive in most water temperatures.

Mobil struck oil in the area, an offshore region off southern Vietnam in 1975, before the Communist victory.