Hurricane Frances Evacuation and Production Shut-in Statistics
as of Tuesday, September 7, 2004

Final Report

For Information Concerning the Storm Click on www.gomr.mms.gov

*** This survey is reflective of 9 companies’ reports as of 10a.m. Central Time.

This is a summary for September 3-7, 2004.  All operations were reported back online as of 09/07.

These evacuations are equivalent to 2.09% of 764 manned platforms and 14.53% of 117 rigs currently operating in the GOM.

The cumulative (9/3/04-09/07/04) shut-in oil production is 61,896 bbls which is equivalent to 0.01% of the yearly production of oil in the GOM which is approximately 605million barrels.

The cumulative (09/03/04-09/07/04) shut-in gas production is 118.42 MMCF which is  equivalent to 0.003% 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.