Shell Starts Evacuating Gulf of Mexico Staff as Storm Looms

Royal Dutch Shell PLC said it has started evacuating non-essential staff from its offshore Gulf of Mexico facilities.

“Precautionary evacuation” of 300 workers happened on Tuesday, based on the “potential development of (a) tropical disturbance”, Shell said. “We are planning to evacuate approximately 400 more (today),” it said.


The evacuation has no impact on the site’s oil and gas production, it added.

On Tuesday, the US National Hurricane Center was closely monitoring two storm systems, one just east of Florida and the other in the central Atlantic.

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