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Today's shut-in oil production is 898,161 BOPD. This shut-in oil production is equivalent to 59.88% of the daily oil production in the GOM, which is currently approximately 1.5 million BOPD.
Today's shut-in gas production is 3.829 BCFPD. This shut-in gas production is equivalent to 38.29% of the daily gas production in the GOM, which is currently approximately 10 BCFPD.
The cumulative shut-in oil production for the period 8/26/05-9/9/05 is 16,223,825 bbls, which is equivalent to 2.963% of the yearly production of oil in the GOM (approximately 547.5 million barrels).
The cumulative shut-in gas production 8/26/05-9/9/05 is 80.411 BCF, which is equivalent to 2.203% of the yearly production of gas in the GOM (approximately 3.65 TCF).
It's curious to compare the cumulatives with yesterday's - cumulative oil shut in is up 1.7 million barrels, while cumulative gas is up 4.7 BCF, both of which are quite a bit higher than yesterday's claimed shut in. Someone needs to hire an accountant.
Seriously, now we have 2 major discrepancies in the numbers, with yesterday's out-of-the-blue "increase" in shut-in oil because some company had forgot to report in for all these days (even though MMS guidelines assume no news is bad news, i.e. equals shut-in), and today with the increase in cumulative greater than the shut-in reported yesterday.
Does anyone trust these guys any more? Personally, I'm suspicious of every government report these days.
And I've seen this question asked around here before, but does recovery of shut-in production=flow of product to the coast? Or does it just mean that the platform is producing again, but can't ship the product back because we have no idea what the condition of the undersea pipes are?