**Shut-in production rates do not include production lost
due to the destroyed platforms.
These evacuations are equivalent to 5.10% of 764 manned platforms
and 1.71% of 117 rigs currently operating in the GOM.
This shut-in oil production is equivalent to 28.85% of daily
production of oil in GOM which is approximately 1.7 million BOPD.
This shut-in gas production is equivalent to 19.03% of the daily
production of gas in the GOM which is approximately 12.3 BCFPD.
The cumulative (9/13/04-9/28/04) shut-in oil production is
11,767,727 bbls which is equivalent to 1.945% of the yearly production
of oil in the GOM which is approximately 605 million barrels.
The cumulative (9/13/04-9/28/04) shut-in gas production is 52.383
BCF which is equivalent to 1.177% of the yearly production of gas in
the GOM which is approximately 4.45 TCF.
These cumulative numbers reflect updated production numbers from
all previous 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.