(Here's a lot of good information that I posted at
SoapBlox/Chicago for Illinois and the Midwest. But it's pretty relevant for the whole country.)
First here's a graph from mms.gov's data showing how fast they are bringing the oil and gas back on line. The lines represent how much oil and gas are "shut-in" which means the spiggot is turned off. We want to see the lines all the way down to the bottom. They didn't report on Sunday 9/4. The numbers on the left are meaningless as I've rounded the different ways of measuring oil and gas to fit together in one graph. ArchPundit has not published a barge update but the Office of Energy Assurance says the Mississippi is open to ships with a draft of 35 feet during daylight hours.
Unpumped and Unextracted Oil and Gas over Time
Again from mms.gov:
...evacuations are equivalent to 27.83% of 819 manned platforms and 27.61% of 134 rigs currently operating in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM). The number of manned platforms that are evacuated declined 25 percent from yesterday.
Today's shut-in oil production is 1,043,681 BOPD. This shut-in oil production is equivalent to 69.57% of the daily oil production in the GOM, which is currently approximately 1.5 million BOPD. This represents a 5 percent improvement from yesterday's figures.
Today's shut-in gas production is 5.225 BCFPD. This shut-in gas production is equivalent to 54.13% of the daily gas production in the GOM, which is currently approximately 10 BCFPD. This represents a 2 percent improvement from Sunday's figures.
From the Office of Energy Assurance:
Midwest Refineries:
SPR is the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
They say that the Mississippi is open to ships with a draft of 35 feet during daylight hours.
And they tell us that the Capline Pipeline, which supplies Chicago/Midwest is running at 80% at 960,000 barrels a day.