-- ExxonMobil on Oct 21 acknowledged some of its service stations
in central and southern Florida may run out of gasoline ahead of
Hurricane Wilma and said it was adding eight tanker trucks to its
fleet supplying gasoline to the region to help boost supplies. Four
of the eight additional tankers are from out of state, ExxonMobil
said. Additional ExxonMobil drivers have been flown in from Chicago,
California and Texas to assist in gasoline deliveries, the major
said. The company's fleet size in the region is normally 28 trucks.
-- Senior Pemex executives early on Oct 21 ruled out taking
immediate emergency measures in Mexico's main oil-producing area,
the Sound of Campeche, but they maintained a state of alert on the
progress of Hurricane Wilma, a source at the state company said.
-- Anadarko Petroleum the morning of Oct 21 evacuated 35
non-essential workers from the company's Gulf of Mexico operations
as a precautionary measure ahead of Wilma. No production has been
shut-in on the exploration and production company's sole USG
platform. A staff of 15 have remained on the Marco Polo platform, a
spokeswoman said.
-- The Louisiana Dept of Natural Resources on Oct 21 said
operators of onshore and shallow-water wells in a 38-parish region
had restored 63,289 b/d of oil production, or 31.2% of the region's
output of roughly 203,139 b/d before Katrina and Rita hit the Gulf
Coast. The agency put the amount of restored natural gas production
at 876,300 Mcf/d, or 39.2% of the region's pre-storm total of 2.235
Bcf/d. The numbers on Oct 21 showed a continued, though slow,
increase in both oil and gas production. DNR on on Oct 20 reported
that producers had restored 62,803 b/d of oil production and 874,700
Mcf/d of gas production.
-- The US Minerals Management Service, in its daily production
update in the wake of Katrina and Rita, and now Hurricane Wila, said
crude and natural gas production shut-ins in the Gulf of Mexico
reversed their slow pace of recovery and increased slightly on Oct
21. The agency said oil shut-ins in the Gulf as of 11:30 a.m. CDT
Oct 21 were 986,805 b/d, or 65.787% of normal production of 1.5-mil
b/d. That compares with 967,734 b/d, or 64.52%, on Oct 20. Gas
shut-ins rose to 5.337 Bcf/d, or 53.37% of typical production of 10
Bcf/d. On Oct 20, shut-ins were 5.196 Bcf/d, or 51.96 Bcf/d. MMS
also said the cumulative oil production shut in since Aug 26 ahead
of Katrina is now 64,547,816 bbl, equivalent to 11.79% of yearly US
Gulf output of roughly 547.5-mil bbl. Cumulative gas shut-ins of
326.521 Bcf is equivalent to about 8.946% of yearly Gulf output of
some 3.65 Tcf.
-- The following refineries are down in the wake of Rita:
ConocoPhillips: Lake Charles, Louisiana, (239,000 b/d), power
restored, mid-October restart; BP: Texas City, Texas, (446,500 b/d),
restart within a month, but may not produce until end of October due
to regulatory scrutiny, sources told Platts; Calcasieu: Lake
Charles, (30,000 b/d), power restored.
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