HOUSTON (Dow Jones)--U.S. Gulf of Mexico oil and gas volumes shut-in as a result of recent storms continued their slow recovery Friday, according to the Minerals Management Service.
The agency expects recovery to occur in small increments over the next several months, an MMS release said. Therefore, shut-in statistics will be published twice a week, on Mondays and Thursdays, instead of the current daily schedule, starting next week, the MMS said.
Some 447,425 barrels of oil a day, or 29.8% of daily oil production, remained off-line, down from 31% on Thursday.
Shut-in gas production decreased to 2.35 billion cubic feet a day, or 23.5%, down from 24.4% on Thursday, an improvement of approximately 900 million cubic feet a day.
Cumulative lost oil production since Aug. 26 - when Hurricane Katrina triggered the first wave of evacuations in the Gulf - reached 100.4 million barrels of oil on Friday, or 18.3% of yearly Gulf crude output.
Total lost natural gas production amounted to about 519.2 billion cubic feet, or 14.2% of the region's annual gas output.
About 126 platforms remained evacuated, five fewer than Thursday.
Full recovery of oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico won't occur until the summer of 2006, Energy Secretary Sam Bodman told reporters on Thursday. "The infrastructure of our country took a real blow with hurricanes Rita and Katrina," he said.
Gulf Of Mexico Production Outage Volumes Since Hurricane
Katrina
DATE OIL SHUT IN GAS SHUT IN
(B/D) (BCF/D)
Dec 09 447,425 2.35
Dec 08 464,858 2.44
Dec 07 476,035 2.48
Dec 06 503,187 2.65
Dec 05 509,270 2.72
Dec 02 539,074 2.94
Dec 01 547,074 2.96
Nov 30 547,223 2.97
Nov 29 564,229 2.99
Nov 28 594,421 3.06
Nov 23 615,623 3.20
Nov 22 621,233 3.22
Nov 21 633,064 3.27
Nov 18 702,556 3.62
Nov 17 717,807 3.65
Nov 16 725,218 3.71
Nov 15 725,423 3.71
Nov 14 727,054 3.74
Nov 10 736,279 4.02
Nov 09 737,136 4.03
Nov 08 738,617 4.12
Nov 07 773,097 4.48
Nov 04 780,633 4.57
Nov 03 790,610 4.72
Nov 02 957,978 5.04
Nov 01 1,000,092 5.27
Oct 31 1,015,859 5.43
Oct 28 1,017,551 5.50
Oct 27 1,022,313 5.56
Oct 26 1,022,515 5.56
Oct 25 1,033,621 5.58
Oct 24 1,018,478 5.47
Oct 21 986,805 5.33
Oct 20 967,734 5.19
Oct 19 973,084 5.24
Oct 18 982,011 5.35
Oct 17 996,291 5.50
Oct 14 1,008,909 5.65
Oct 13 1,031,261 5.67
Oct 12 1,046,462 5.92
Oct 11 1,062,530 6.04
Oct 07 1,162,913 6.44
Oct 06 1,202,364 6.63
Oct 05 1,299,928 6.89
Oct 04 1,349,617 7.17
Oct 03 1,391,926 7.50
Sep 30 1,467,577 7.94
Sep 29 1,478,780 7.98
Sep 28 1,511,715 8.03
Sep 27 1,512,937 7.86
Sep 26 1,512,937 7.84
Sep 23 1,486,877 7.20
Sep 22 1,379,000 6.59
Sep 21 1,097,357 4.71
Sep 20 877,275 3.48
Sep 19 837,648 3.38
Sep 16 840,921 3.41
Sep 15 842,091 3.52
Sep 14 843,725 3.72
Sep 13 846,720 3.78
Sep 12 860,636 3.82
Sep 10 897,605 3.82
Sep 09 898,161 3.83
Sep 08 901,726 4.02
Sep 07 860,568 4.04
Sep 06 870,374 4.16
Sep 05 1,043,681 5.23
Aug 30 1,427,969 8.80
Source: U.S. Minerals Management Service |
