Tropical Storm Bonnie Evacuation and Production Shut-in Statistics
as of Thursday, August 12, 2004

Next report will be issued Friday, August 13, 2004 at 2:00 p.m. CDT
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*** This survey is reflective of 41 companies’ reports.

These evacuations are equivalent to 20.16% of 764 manned platforms and 27.35% of 117 rigs currently operating in the GOM.

This shut-in oil production is equivalent to 28.29% of daily production of oil in GOM which is approximately 1.7 million BOPD.

This shut-in gas production is equivalent to 9.06% of the daily production of gas in the GOM which is approximately 12.3 BCFPD.

Statistics as of Wednesday, August 11, 2004

*** This survey is reflective of 33 companies’ reports.

The cumulative (08/10/04-08/12/04) shut-in oil production is 941,780 bbls which equivalent to 0.156% of the yearly production of oil in the GOM which is approximately 605 million barrels.

The cumulative (08/10/04-08/12/04) shut-in gas production is 3,194.0 MMCF which is equivalent to 0.072% of the yearly production of gas in the GOM which is approximately 4.45 TCF.

The Minerals Management Service is the federal agency in the U.S. Department of the Interior that manages the nation’s oil, natural gas, and other mineral resources on the Outer Continental Shelf in Federal offshore waters.  The agency also collects, accounts for, and disburses mineral revenues from Federal and American Indian lands.  MMS disbursed more than $8 billion in FY 2003 and more than $135 billion since the agency was created in 1982.  Nearly $1 billion from those revenues go into the Land and Water Conservation Fund annually for the acquisition and development of state and Federal park and recreation lands.