Oil and natural gas explorers in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico and Louisiana refineries have shut production as Hurricane Ida crashes ashore.
Based on the latest forecast by the National Hurricane Center, Ida will make landfall near New Orleans Sunday afternoon. About 1.74 million barrels a day, or 95.7% of crude production, and 93.8% of gas output was shut-in as of Sunday, according to the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement. About 2.11 million barrels a day of refining capacity — approximately 12% of the U.S. total — was being shut or brought to reduced rates at plants along the Mississippi River.
Here is a list of major oil and gas production sites, refineries, pipelines and ports being shut and their capacity in barrels per day, or barrels of oil equivalent a day.
| PLATFORMS |
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| BP Plc |
- Atlantis, 200,000 b/d
- Mad Dog, 100,000 b/d
- Na Kika, 130,000 b/d
- Thunder Horse, 250,000 b/d
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| Royal Dutch Shell Plc |
- Turritella (including Stones field) 50,000 boe/d (at peak), Stones working to resume partial production
- Mars, 60,000 boe/d
- Olympus, 100,000 boe/d
- Appomattox, 175,000 boe/d
- Ursa, 150,000 boe/d
- Auger, 130,000 boe/d
- Enchilada/Salsa, capacity not specified
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| Equinor SA |
- Titan, 2,000 boe/d (producing rate in the second quarter)
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| BHP Group |
- Shenzi, 100,000 b/d and 50 mmcf/d gas
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| Murphy Oil Corp. |
- Shutting in production, up to 4,100 boe/d
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| Chevron Corp. |
- Shutting all oil and natural gas platforms; volume not specified
- Average net daily output in 2018 was 186,000 barrels of crude, 105 million cubic feet of natural gas and 13,000 barrels of NGLs: website
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| Exxon Mobil Corp. |
- Began evacuating personnel from its Hoover platform; minimal impact on production
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Ports
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| LOOP |
- Pauses deliveries until after storm
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| New Orleans |
- Coast Guard set condition Zulu
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Refineries
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| Valero |
- Shut 215k b/d St. Charles, 125k b/d Meraux
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| PBF Energy |
- Reducing rates at 190k b/d Chalmette
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| Shell |
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| Exxon Mobil |
- Baton Rouge (520k b/d) running at 50% capacity
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| Phillips 66 |
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| Marathon |
- Shut production at 578k b/d Garyville
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Pipelines
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| Colonial |
- Shuts lines 1 & 2, main gasoline and distillate pipes running from Houston to Greensboro NC. Colonial system can distribute up to 2.5m b/d of gasoline, diesel, jet fuel across southeast and Mid-Atlantic
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