About half of the daily oil and natural-gas production that had been shut down by Tropical Storm Don had resumed by Sunday, a sign that producers are sending workers back to sea and that facilities were likely not damaged by the relatively weak storm, federal regulators said.
About half of the daily oil and natural-gas production that had been
shut down by Tropical Storm Don had resumed by Sunday, a sign that producers
are sending workers back to sea and that facilities were likely not damaged by
the relatively weak storm, federal regulators said.
About 6% of oil production and 3.5% of natural-gas production in the U.S. Gulf
remained shut down Sunday after Tropical Storm Don blew ashore in south
Texas
late
Friday, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement said.
Don, a storm that had maximum sustained winds of about 50 miles per hour,
weakened significantly when it approached land south of Corpus Christi, Texas,
the National Hurricane Center said.
Royal Dutch Shell (RDSA) said late Sunday that production at its
ultra-deep-water Perdido platform has resumed. "It will ramp up through
tomorrow," a company spokeswoman said by email.
Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) said it had completed "extensive post-storm
assessments" of western Gulf facilities that had been evacuated ahead of
Don and was returning employees to those platforms to resume normal operations.
Some 8,000 barrels of oil per day and 50 million cubic feet of natural gas
remained shut down, however, the company said.
Chevron Corp. (CVX) and Apache Corp. (APA) also said Sunday that their
employees were returning to work in the
Gulf of Mexico
and
that shut-in production had resumed.
Oil companies, including Anadarko Petroleum Corp. (APC) and Shell, were among
those that said Saturday that they were deploying workers to restart offshore
production in the western Gulf. BP PLC (BP) and BHP Billiton Ltd. (BHP) sent
workers back to deep-water operations Friday.
Production of about 84,072 barrels per day of oil and 186 million cubic feet of
gas remained curtailed as of
11:30
am CDT
. That compares with 152,785 barrels a day of oil and 349.5 million
cubic feet of gas that were shut in a day earlier.
The
Gulf of Mexico
accounts for 30% of all
U.S.
oil
production and about 7.4% of
U.S.
natural-gas production.
Personnel from seven operating platforms, equivalent to 1.1% of all the manned
platforms in the Gulf and down from 62 on Saturday, remained evacuated from
those facilities. All of the 62 drilling rigs currently operating in the Gulf
are now manned, the government agency said. On Friday four rigs had been
evacuated.
Estimated energy production from the
Gulf of Mexico
as of
March was 1.6 million barrels of oil a day and 6.4 billion cubic feet of gas a
day, the Bureau said in a press release.
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement oversees oil
and gas drilling in federal waters.
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