NEW ORLEANS — More than three fourths of oil production and more than half of natural gas production remained halted in the Gulf of Mexico nine days after Hurricane Ike slammed into Texas.
About 76.6 percent of oil production and 65.5 percent of natural gas production in the Gulf is on pause, the U.S. Minerals Management Service said today.
About 1.3 million barrels of oil and 7.4 billion cubic feet of gas are produced every day in the Gulf, according to MMS estimates.
The oil and gas industry is still sending personnel back to rigs and platforms that were evacuated for Ike.
As of 11:30 a.m. today, personnel were still evacuated from a 225 production platforms, or 31.4 percent of the 717 manned platforms in the Gulf, and seven rigs, or 5.8 percent of the 121 rigs operating in the Gulf.
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