About 13.5% of US Gulf Oil Output Still Shut in by Harvey
About 13.5 percent of oil production in the Gulf of Mexico was shut in on Thursday due to Tropical Storm Harvey, the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement said.
That equates to some 236,115 barrels of oil per day, out of roughly 1.75 million barrels pumped daily from the Gulf, down from 323,760 barrels of oil per day that were shut on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, 17.6 percent of natural gas production in the region, or 568.09 million cubic feet per day has been shut in, BSEE said, down from 611.09 million on Wednesday.
BSEE tabulated the data by polling 31 Gulf operators.
(Reporting by David Gaffen; Editing by James Dalgleish)
(Reporting by David Gaffen; Editing by James Dalgleish)