Americas / United States · Energy

Oil companies shut Gulf of Mexico production before storm

Rank
Ran: 40h
Updated: 2d ago
Closed
Outlets: 5
Regions: 2
Countries: 2
Languages: 1

OilPrice.com United Kingdom · English 7 Oct, 06:30 UTC

The earliest of 5 English reports

The only language so far · English, 5 reports

Read at OilPrice.com

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: OilPrice.com, 7 Oct, 06:30 UTC.
Second country: United States, with The Wall Street Journal.
Second region: Americas, with The Wall Street Journal.
Last article: 5 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 2 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

80%20%

Americas 4 outlets · 1 country · 80%
Europe 1 outlet · 1 country · 20%

First movers

OilPrice.com 7 Oct, 06:30 UTC
The Wall Street Journal +25h 58m
Rigzone +28h 32m
gCaptain +35h 4m
Maritime Executive +40h 56m

The figures

Coverage: 5 outlets in 2 countries, across 2 regions, 4 of them trade press. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 5 outlets, 5 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Americas 1: United States. Europe 1: United Kingdom. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages: English.
Timeline: Earliest article OilPrice.com, 7 Oct 2026, 06:30 UTC. First seen 7 Oct 2026, 06:30 UTC. Last seen 8 Oct 2026, 23:25 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification: Region Americas, United States. Topic Energy. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score: None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain: Continued by Hurricane Isaias shuts in about 70% of US Gulf of Mexico oil output; Offshore operators curtail US Gulf of Mexico production as tropical storm approaches. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.

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Started 7 Oct, 06:30 UTC · Updated 8 Oct, 23:25 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 5 outlets

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Maritime Executive United States 8 Oct, 23:25 UTC
Hurricane Isaias Prompts Shut-Ins for 60 Percent of Gulf Oil Production
OilPrice.com United Kingdom 8 Oct, 20:00 UTC
Hurricane Isaias Shuts In 1.28 Million Bpd of Gulf Oil Production
+2 more articlesHide 2 more articles
- Big Oil Begins Shutting In Gulf of Mexico Production 8 Oct, 08:00 UTC
- Chevron, Shell and BP Pull Workers From the Gulf Ahead of Hurricane 7 Oct, 06:30 UTC
gCaptain United States 8 Oct, 17:33 UTC
Hurricane Isaias Shuts Down Nearly Two-Thirds of Gulf Oil Production
Rigzone United States 8 Oct, 11:02 UTC
Shell, Chevron, Oxy Issue Hurricane Isaias Updates
The Wall Street Journal United States 8 Oct, 08:35 UTC
Harbour Energy Curbs Gulf of Mexico Production Ahead of Storm Isaias
+1 more articleHide 1 more article
- Harbour Energy Curbs Gulf of Mexico Production Ahead of Storm Isaias 8 Oct, 08:28 UTC