Power, Grid & Data Centers
Gulf of Mexico production shutdowns declined to 29.63% of daily oil output and 24.81% of daily natural-gas output.
· ComputeLabs Research · from the October 12, 2026 edition
The supplied operational update reports that 29.63% of Gulf of Mexico daily oil production and 24.81% of daily natural-gas production were shut in. Separate messages give approximately 604,503 barrels per day of oil and 531 million cubic feet per day of gas, with rounded shutdown shares of 30% and 25%, respectively.
Personnel had been evacuated from five production platforms, representing 1.35% of 371 staffed platforms. One non-dynamically positioned drilling rig had also been evacuated, representing 9.09% of the 11 such rigs operating in the region; production platforms and drilling rigs are separate equipment categories.
The source messages establish the reported shutdown levels but provide no earlier comparable figures that verify the digest’s word “declined.” They also do not identify an associated change in electricity generation, data-center power availability, or a timetable for restoring the remaining production.

