Here's today's document (change the number in the date for tomorrow...
http://www.electricity.doe.gov/documents/gulfcoast_report_092605.pdf
Browse through this interesting pdf from the DOE that the MSM seems to completely miss the point of...it lays out explicitly refinery damage, oil shut in, and other interesting energy stats (found this at peakoil.com)
100% of GOM oil out (and look at the percentage figures for the past month below), 20% of the country's refineries down, NG Henry Hub down, lots of lives displaced, things feeling amok...in a nutshell, virtually 3/4 of the script for the 'Oil Storm' is playing out, and prices go down...must be one hell of a recession looming one wonders...
just to make the point:
Date -------- % of GOM Oil Shut-in --- % of GOM Gas Shut-in
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August 30 ------- 95.20 ---------------- 87.99
August 31 ------- 91.45 ---------------- 83.46
September 1 ---- 90.43 ---------------- 78.66
September 2 ---- 88.53 ---------------- 72.48
September 3 ---- 78.98 ---------------- 57.80
September 4 ---- No data reported No data reported
September 5 ---- 69.57 ---------------- 54.13
September 6 ---- 58.02 ---------------- 41.06
September 7 ---- 57.37 ---------------- 40.36
September 8 ---- 60.12 ---------------- 40.20
September 9 ---- 59.88 ---------------- 38.29
September 10 --- 59.84 ---------------- 38.21
September 11---- No data reported -- No data reported
September 12 --- 57.38 ---------------- 37.84
September 13 --- 56.45 ---------------- 37.20
September 14 --- 56.25 ---------------- 35.18
September 15 --- 56.14 ---------------- 34.11
September 16 --- 56.06 ---------------- 33.84
September 19 --- 55.84 ---------------- 33.75
September 20 --- 58.49 ---------------- 34.82
September 21 --- 73.16 ---------------- 47.13
September 22 --- 91.93 ---------------- 65.95
September 23 --- 99.13 ---------------- 72.04
September 24 --- 100 ------------------ 74.88
September 25 --- 100 ------------------ 80.47
September 26 --- 100 ------------------ 78.43
(perspective: The GOMEX produces 1.5 MBOPD (oil) and 10 BCFPD (NG). Overall US consumption is 20ish MBOPD for oil and 62.4 BCFPD for NG. (thanks marek))
I'll say this the easy way: WTF?
Something is terribly awry.