He explained that the volume of production stopped was… Oil It amounts to 59 thousand barrels per day, in addition to 17 million cubic feet of liquefied natural gas.
Oil and gas producers began halting production in offshore fields on Tuesday as the hurricane passed Helen Across the Gulf of Mexico. Oil and natural gas production losses peaked at 511,000 barrels on Wednesday.
Production companies started Oil And the gas is off Marine productionLast Tuesday, with a move Storm Helen Across the Gulf of Mexico in the United States.
Company announced ChevronOn Friday, it began redeploying workers and restoring production on the platforms managed by the company in the wake of the storm passing through its platforms.
Federal data showed that the Gulf of Mexico in the United States represents about 15 percent of total domestic oil production and 2 percent of oil production Natural gas.
Tropical Storm Helen caused serious flooding in the states of North Carolina and South Carolina on Friday, after causing widespread devastation when it reached the level of a major hurricane as it moved through Florida and Georgia, killing at least 43 people, flooding residential neighborhoods, causing landslides and disrupting… Electric current For more than 3.5 million homes and businesses.
The hurricane reached the coast of Florida with winds of 225 kilometers per hour and weakened to the level of a tropical storm as it moved to Georgia early yesterday (Friday).
The National Hurricane Center said that the wind speed in the storm was 55 kilometers per hour, and it was downgraded to a tropical depression as its intensity decreased over the states of Tennessee and Kentucky.