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  Another storm prepares to rock the U.S. gulf coast

  Posted by Nigel on 28 October 2020 at 1:06 pm

  Nearly half of all oil production on the U.S. Gulf Coast has been shut-in ahead of Tropical Storm Zeta, the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) said on Tuesday afternoon.

  In the latest update on the multitude of storms making their way through the Gulf Coast this year, disrupting U.S. oil production, the BSEE reports that 154 platforms in the Gulf have been evacuated, a figure that represents nearly a quarter of the 643 manned platforms residing in the Gulf.

  The amount of oil production shut-in as of Tuesday afternoon equates to nearly a million barrels per day.

  For natural gas, more than 55 percent of all gas had been shut-in, or 1500 MMCFD.

  Hurricane Zeta will be the 11th hurricane this season to hit the Gulf. It hit Mexico on Monday night, and is expected to hit the U.S. coast by Wednesday, with warnings issued from Louisiana to Florida. Oil companies are preemptively evacuating platforms.

  By Tuesday, Enbridge, BP, Shell, Chevron, Equinor, had experienced disruptions to their operations.

  

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