Charles, in the comments of a couple of posts back asks a very good question:

I'm wondering if anyone else caught today's shut-in statistics at http://www.mms.gov/ooc/press/2005/press0908.htm.  It seems that there's actually more oil shut-in today than there was yesterday; 60.12% as opposed to 57.37% yesterday.

Also, they've stopped reporting the 'good news' of production improvement.  No surprise there.  The data that I have look like this:

Oil shut-in:  9/5 - 69.57%, 9/6 - 58.02%, 9/7 - 57.37%, 9/8 - 60.12%

Gas shut-in:  9/5 - 54.13%, 9/6 - 41.60%, 9/7 - 40.36%, 9/8 - 40.20%

Also, let's not forget about the GOMEX predictions of 85.6% shut-in for <10days, 50.1% for 10-30 days, and 26.1% for 30-60 days and 21.1% for >60 days.  (NG was 59-29-12-4 over the same intervals).