Chevron Evacuates Workers From Offshore Oil Platforms Ahead Of Strengthening Gulf Storm
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Chevron announced that non-essential employees and contractors have been pulled from four platforms in the US Gulf of Mexico ahead of a tropical storm expected to hit the region in just a few days.
Bloomberg said Chevron workers from the Anchor, Big Foot, Jack/St. Malo, and Tahiti installations have been evacuated, noting that production in the Gulf so far remains ‘normal’.
The National Hurricane Center said the tropical system will be named Tropical Storm Francine once it begins to organize. It’s expected to strengthen into a hurricane on Tuesday before landfall along the northwestern US Gulf Coast on Wednesday.
One major concern is the storm’s projected path into America’s energy complex. First, dozens of offshore oil rigs and refineries on land are in the storm’s cone of uncertainty.
