Hurricane Frances Evacuation and Production Shut-in Statistics
as of Friday, September 3, 2004

Next report will be issued Tuesday, September 7, 2004 at 2:00 p.m. CDT
For Information Concerning the Storm Click on www.gomr.mms.gov

*** This survey is reflective of 3 companies’ reports.

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.