NEW ORLEANS — Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) has activated the Hurricane Response Team and is monitoring offshore oil and gas operations on platforms and rigs in the Gulf of Mexico as a result of Hurricane Delta. The team works with offshore operators and other state and federal agencies until operations return to…
A strengthening Hurricane Delta dealt the greatest blow to U.S. offshore Gulf of Mexico production in 15 years, halting most of the region's oil and nearly two-thirds of its natural gas output. An already large and powerful storm, Delta could intensify further on Friday as it churns through the Gulf's prime oil-producing area. Its winds…
The hurricane is in between Jamaica and the Yucatan right now. Could hit category 4. Expected to arrive here sometime around Friday.
Royal Dutch Shell Plc halted some oil production and began evacuating workers from a U.S. Gulf of Mexico platform, the company said on Saturday, as a new tropical storm flared. Beta, the 23rd named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, formed in the Bay of Campeche and was forecast to gradually strengthen and soak the…
Lots of storms brewing in the Atlantic right now. Good news is that all of the developments in the ocean at present are forecast to miss the USA entirely.
Below is a snapshot of the weather conditions in the Atlantic as of 5am today, Houston time. So far, nothing to worry about in the entire USA from hurricanes - all the storms are diverging. But, with that much activity, you can never get too relaxed. Stay alert.
