The US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) said that the tropical storm Cristobal shut down around 24% or 435,767 bpd of crude oil production in the offshore US-regulated Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday.
After the storm’s passage ashore on Sunday, around 23% or 619 mcfd of natural gas output remained shut in the US Gulf while on Tuesday, 31% of crude production and 33% of natural gas output were shut.
Roughly 9.5% or 61 production platforms are still evacuated in the northern Gulf of Mexico.
The storm has shut about 2.9 million bpd of oil and 4.2 bcfd of natural gas outputs since Saturday in total.
The US Gulf of Mexico waters makes up about 15% of the country’s total production of crude and 5% of natural gas output.
