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Bubba on December 28, 2005 - 11:49pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
A rough approximation of the impact of the two hurricanes in terms of decreasing global production is about 250,000 BOPD average for all of 2005.  This assumes about 750,000 BOPD shut in (on average) since September.  This is probably an overestimate of pure crude, but I am not sure how much condensate or NGL's come from the Gulf, and a lot of natural gas is still shut in.  

This rough forecast also does not take into account any additional production that would have been brought on if the hurricanes had not happened (e.g. starting up Thunderhorse).

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Dave Cohen on December 29, 2005 - 12:10am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
As for your "rough approximation", Bubba, I'll buy that and it seems to be reflected in IEA's Figure 1 in my post. It seemed too hard (in other words, I was too lazy) to figure out the actual effect on world non-OPEC production resulting from the hurricanes.

However, I think this relatively small "oil shock" hardly changes my analysis of the IEA forecasts and revisions over the last 5 years. And, as peakearl implies, perhaps the IEA ought to factor in the risk of such Gulf of Mexico production disruptions each year in making their forecasts.
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peakearl on December 29, 2005 - 12:32am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Thanks. Seems pretty reasonable to me.
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