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As of Tuesday, November 1, 3:00 pm

Shut-in Status

Date	Shut-in Oil (bbl/d)	% of Total Federal GOM	Shut-in Gas (mmcf/d)	% of Total Federal GOM
11/1/2005	1,000,092	63.5%	5,269	52.2%
10/31/2005	1,015,859	64.5%	5,427	53.7%
10/28/2005	1,017,551	64.6%	5,504	54.5%
10/27/2005	1,022,313	64.9%	5,559	55.0%
10/26/2005	1,022,515	64.9%	5,563	55.1%
10/25/2005	1,033,621	65.6%	5,582	55.3%
10/24/2005	1,018,478	64.6%	5,472	54.2%
10/21/2005	986,805	62.6%	5,337	52.8%
10/20/2005	967,734	61.4%	5,196	51.4%
10/19/2005	973,084	61.7%	5,242	51.9%
10/18/2005	982,011	62.3%	5,346	52.9%

source: Minerals Management Service


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On October 31, EIA released the weekly Gasoline and Diesel Fuel Update. The average weekly retail gasoline price decreased to 248.0 cents per gallon (down 12.3 cents from the previous week). The average national weekly diesel fuel price decreased 28.1 cents to 287.6 cents per gallon.

Refinery shutdowns in the Gulf of Mexico region total 804,000 barrels per day as of October 31, 2005. Please consult the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability's Situation Report for specific information on the refineries.

A number of processing plants in Louisiana and Texas, with capacities equal to or greater than 100 million cubic feet per day, are not active. These plants have an aggregate capacity of 7.93 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d), and they had a total pre-hurricane flow volume of 4.60 Bcf/d. A number of non-operating plants with a total capacity of 1.17 Bcf/d are operational, but are not active owing to upstream or downstream infrastructure problems or supplies being unavailable. These plants had flowed 0.41 Bcf/d before the hurricanes. A number of the inactive plants are expected to be operating within 4 weeks. Based on updated data, the incremental available capacity at that time would be 2.88 Bcf/d with pre-hurricane flow of 1.38 Bcf/d. Based on updated company information, pre-hurricane flow volumes indicate that the average utilization of the non-operating plants was roughly 58 percent.

As of November 1, the Louisiana Office of Conservation has received reports indicating 959.4 million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) of onshore and offshore (in State waters only) natural gas production has been restored, which is 42.9 percent of total production before the hurricanes. Overall, 2,738 oil and gas wells, or 46 percent of the wells in the region, reportedly remain shut-in. However, the Office has not received information on approximately 15.4 percent of the oil and gas wells in the region. The daily gas production capacity of the 38 parish region is estimated to be approximately 2,235 MMcf/d, based on the average production reported to the Office for the period January 2005 to May 2005.