More US oil and gas producers in Texas are preparing for restart after shutting down because of Hurricane Harvey.
ExxonMobil's shale subsidiary XTO Energy, which had shut in production that was in the direct line of the storm, has crews assessing the impact to those operations and are beginning to resume production.
ExxonMobil joins ConocoPhillips, Marathon Oil and others, who continue to assess their operations in the path of the hurricane and gradually ramp up output.
Oilfield services company Schlumberger is reopening key facilities that are deemed secure and ready while the bulk of its greater Houston area facilities will stay closed through today. Yesterday, peer Baker Hughes began critical operations in the greater Houston area.
In the offshore US Gulf of Mexico, ExxonMobil's Hoover and Galveston 209 platforms remain shut in, and personnel are assessing operations.
"Systems are safe and operational at the Hadrian South subsea production system in the Gulf, and production startup operations are underway," it said.
The status with Anadarko offshore operations remains unchanged. Similarly others producers who had shut or pared back operations, including Shell and BP, haven't updated their plans for their US Gulf operations.
Overall, in the Gulf, as much as 236,100 b/d of oil output, representing 13pc of the total from the region, and 568mn cf/d of natural gas, also about 18pc of the total, were shut in as of yesterday, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE). In all, 94 platforms and five rigs have been evacuated.
That compares with 323,800 b/d of oil output and 611mn cf/d of natural gas shut in, with 102 platforms and five rigs evacuated as of 30 August.
