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Release: #3302
Date: July 13, 2005
Hurricane Dennis Damage is
Slight says Federal Agency
The Minerals Management
Service announced today that the damage caused by Hurricane Dennis to
oil and gas operations in the Gulf of Mexico was extremely light.
MMS Gulf of Mexico Regional Director Chris Oynes
noted that “our preliminary report is that the damage from Hurricane
Dennis was extremely light. This was much lighter than Hurricane Ivan
was last year. The eye of the hurricane was about 120 miles farther
east than Ivan’s was in the deeper water sections of the Gulf and thus
the impact to the platforms and rigs was minimal. The path of the
hurricane carried it mostly over open water with no oil and gas
operations.”
The damage that was noted was small amounts of
missing handrails and steel grating from the lower levels of the
platforms. There was no reported damage to the transportation
pipelines and a very small number of damage reports to infield
flowlines.
At the present time no link has been established
between the hurricane and the damage to the Thunder Horse facility,
however, an investigation is underway.
MMS, part of the U.S. Department of the Interior, oversees 1.76
billion acres of the Outer Continental Shelf, managing offshore energy
and minerals while protecting the human, marine, and coastal
environments through advanced science and technology research. The
OCS provides 30 percent of oil and 21
percent of natural gas produced domestically, and sand used
for coastal restoration. MMS collects, accounts for, and disburses
mineral revenues from Federal and American Indian lands, with Fiscal
Year 2004 disbursements of approximately $8 billion and more than $143
billion since 1982. The Land and Water Conservation Fund, which pays
for cooperative conservation, grants to states, and Federal land
acquisition, gets nearly $1 billion a year.
Relevant Web Sites:
Media Contacts:
Debra Winbush (504)
736-2595
Caryl Fagot (504)
736-2590
MMS: Securing Ocean Energy & Economic Value for
America
U.S. Department of the Interior
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