{"id":532,"date":"2026-10-09T20:04:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T20:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/?p=532"},"modified":"2026-10-09T20:05:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T20:05:41","slug":"hurricane-isaias-gulf-oil-shut-in-71-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/?p=532","title":{"rendered":"HURRICANE ISAIAS SHUTS IN 71% OF GULF OIL! | MMA\/BSEE says ~71.51% of Gulf oil is offline (~1.46M bpd) and ~58.84% of gas, with 129 platforms evacuated \u2014 and landfall is aimed at the northern Gulf late Friday or early Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Gulf just hit the off switch. As of <strong>11:00 a.m. CDT Friday<\/strong>, the Marine Minerals Administration estimated that about <strong>71.51%<\/strong> of current daily Gulf of America oil production \u2014 <strong>1,458,814 barrels per day<\/strong> \u2014 had been shut in ahead of Hurricane Isaias, along with about <strong>58.84%<\/strong> of natural-gas output (<strong>1,259.2 million cubic feet per day<\/strong>), per the agency\u2019s update posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bsee.gov\/newsroom\/latest-news\/statements-and-releases\/press-releases\/mma-monitors-gulf-response-isaias3\">BSEE.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Crews are clearing out. Personnel had been evacuated from <strong>129<\/strong> of <strong>371<\/strong> manned production platforms (34.77%) and from <strong>8<\/strong> of <strong>11<\/strong> non-dynamically positioned rigs (72.73%). Two of 17 dynamically positioned rigs had moved off location out of the storm\u2019s path, the MMA said. Shut-in is the safety drill: close subsea valves so oil and gas stay in the rock instead of the water.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/energynow.com\/2026\/10\/about-71-5-of-us-gulf-oil-production-shut-in-ahead-of-hurricane-isaias\/\">EnergyNow<\/a> relayed the same Friday figures via Reuters. On Thursday the agency had still been closer to <strong>~63%<\/strong> oil shut-in; operators keep ratcheting up as the track firms. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/business\/energy-oil\/bp-curbs-production-at-two-platforms-in-gulf-of-mexico-due-to-hurricane-isaias-d582fc67\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a> reported BP had already curbed production and pulled everyone off its Na Kika and Thunder Horse platforms, with landfall expected on the northern Gulf Coast late Friday or early Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>After the storm, facilities get inspected before undamaged wells come back. Damaged ones take longer. The MMA said it will keep updating evacuation and shut-in stats around <strong>1 p.m. CDT<\/strong> as needed \u2014 and Friday\u2019s snapshot already reflects reports from a dozen companies.<\/p>\n<p>Translation: a huge chunk of U.S. offshore crude just sat down for the hurricane. Pump prices and oil traders will notice before the beaches do.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bsee.gov\/newsroom\/latest-news\/statements-and-releases\/press-releases\/mma-monitors-gulf-response-isaias3\">BSEE \/ Marine Minerals Administration<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/energynow.com\/2026\/10\/about-71-5-of-us-gulf-oil-production-shut-in-ahead-of-hurricane-isaias\/\">EnergyNow (Reuters)<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/business\/energy-oil\/bp-curbs-production-at-two-platforms-in-gulf-of-mexico-due-to-hurricane-isaias-d582fc67\">Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MMA\/BSEE says ~71.51% of Gulf oil is offline (~1.46M bpd) and ~58.84% of gas, with 129 platforms evacuated \u2014 and landfall is aimed at the northern Gulf late Friday or early Saturday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/bb-isaias-gulf-oil-shut-in-1009.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":534,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions\/534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}