07 Sep 2021 | 19:22 UTC

1.44 million b/d of oil still offline in US Gulf of Mexico, more than a week after Ida's landfall

Highlights

79% of oil, 78% of natural gas still offline: BSEE

79 producing platforms remain evacuated

More than a week after Hurricane Ida made landfall, 1.44 million b/d of oil was still offline in the US Gulf of Mexico, the US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement said Sept. 7.

That amounts to about 79% of the roughly 1.8 million of the US Gulf's pre-storm average oil production, and was down from 1.53 million b/d, or 84%, on Sept. 6, BSEE said in its daily storm statistics update.

Also, 1.74 Bcf/d or 78% of natural gas was offline Sept. 7, of the roughly 2.2 Bcf/d of production pre-storm. A day earlier, 1.8 Bcf/d of gas was offline, or 81%.

In addition, US Gulf upstream operators had restored 20 more production platforms by noon Sept. 7 than were active 24 hours earlier. Total platforms still evacuated totaled 79, or 14% of all platforms in the US Gulf, compared to 99 the previous day.

Hurricane Ida hit the Louisiana Gulf Coast Aug. 29, packing winds of 150 mph and even higher gusts. It was one of the strongest storms to hit the region in years.