Shell Shutting Some Offshore Output Due to Gulf Storm
September 18 2020 - 9:36AM
Dow Jones News
By Dan Molinski
Royal Dutch Shell said Friday it was halting some of its
offshore production in the Gulf of Mexico as another storm churns
in the area, heading north toward a cluster of production
platforms.
"Shell is monitoring Tropical Depression #22 for potential
impacts to our assets and operations in the Gulf of Mexico," the
company said. "As a precautionary measure, Shell is evacuating
non-essential personnel from Perdido in the western Gulf of Mexico
and has shut in production. All rigs are monitoring the weather and
securing operations."
The move comes just days after Hurricane Sally swept through the
Gulf, forcing Shell and other companies to partially halt
production and temporarily evacuate workers for safety. In some
cases, oil workers who evacuated due to Sally but have since
returned to their offshore job sites may have to turn around and
evacuate again.
"Production at Appomattox is ramping back up and is expected to
resume operations as normal," Shell said earlier Thursday night.
"All other platforms that had curtailed production have resumed
normal production."
Tropical Depression #22 is likely to become a named tropical
storm and possibly a hurricane over the next few days as it
continues to move slowly over the western Gulf, the National
Hurricane Center said Friday
Some 31% of total offshore oil production in the Gulf, or about
568,000 barrels a day, remains offline due to storms, the U.S.
government's Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement said
Thursday. The U.S. produces a total of about 11 million barrels a
day of crude oil.
Write to Dan Molinski at dan.molinski@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
September 18, 2020 10:21 ET (14:21 GMT)
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