Oil prices fell on Thursday as a massive hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico made landfall in the heart of the US oil industry, forcing oil rigs and refineries to shut down.
The storm hit Louisiana early Thursday with 150 mile-per-hour winds, damaging buildings, knocking down trees and cutting power to more than 400,000 people in Louisiana and Texas. Its storm surge was less than predicted, sparing inland plants from feared flooding. At the same time, refiners that convert nearly 2.33 million bpd of crude oil into fuel, and account for about 12% of US processing, halted operations.
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