The US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) said offshore crude oil production in the US-regulated northern Gulf of Mexico was down 13 percent or 242,681 bpd four days after Tropical Storm Cristobal came ashore.
After the storm, natural gas output from the offshore Gulf of Mexico remained cut back by 9 percent (241 million cfd). The federal agency also said 3 percent or 20 production platforms remained evacuated in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Since Saturday, the storm has shut in 4.4 billion cfd of natural gas production.
Formed on the first day of June, the tropical storm struck the Mexican coast on Sunday and then passed north to make landfall in southeast Louisiana. The storm dissipated over Canada on Wednesday.
