HOUSTON: Shut offshore crude oil production in the US-regulated northern Gulf of Mexico fell to about 8% on Friday, one week after Hurricane Delta made landfall in southwest Louisiana, the US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) said on Friday.

The shut crude oil production on Friday is 146,866 barrels per day (bpd). Shut natural gas output slid to 6%, or 160.6 million cubic feet per day (mmcfd), BSEE said.

On Thursday, 439,823 bpd, or 24%, of crude oil production was shut while 12% of natural gas output, or 330 million cubic feet per day (mmcfd), was offline, according to BSEE.

Between Oct. 6 and Friday, a cumulative total of 12 million barrels of crude oil production and 11.4 billion cubic feet of natural gas output from the Gulf has been shut because of Hurricane Delta, which made landfall in southwest Louisiana on Oct. 9.

BSEE said Friday's report is the last it will provide for Hurricane Delta because of the small amount of production that remains shut.