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Ben on September 28, 2005 - 3:44pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I know the MMS guys had to close an office for the evacuation, but can this number be right?  Nobody in the gulf is pumping right now?  After nearly a week?

Their web site is down as I'm typing this, don't know if they have any more information posted about why so slow to recover.  We saw improvement 3 days after Katrina / Ivan.

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mw on September 28, 2005 - 4:45pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
The stats are not a reporting issue; all companies operating in the gulf have to report their status. Why is it still shut down? Off-shore, on-shore pipelines and facilities would seem to be the major issue.

Financial markets - the big picture folks not focussed on energy - so far have not clued in that there may be a much more serious outage than 'normal' facing us.

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Ben on September 28, 2005 - 4:50pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Maybe they're waiting for the President to tell us all if this was a "normal" hurricane.

I understand they need to report stats, and somebody compiles them, I was wondering (aloud) if the data was accurate given that they have so many things going on.  I think you are right, that there are pipeline problems (or similar) that either need to be checked or repaired before they can start production.  They don't seem to be in a very big hurry to get their $67 / barrel...

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