U.S. energy companies begin restoring oil and gas output after hurricane

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U.S. energy companies were returning workers and restarting operations at storm-swept production facilities along the U.S. Gulf Coast on Sunday, two days after Hurricane Delta barreled through the area.

FILE PHOTO: A gas station remains flooded from Hurricane Delta in Lake Charles, Louisiana, U.S., October 10, 2020. REUTERS/Kathleen Flynn/File Photo

It can take several days after a storm passes for energy producers to evaluate facilities for damage, return workers and restore offshore production. The companies that operate oil and gas pipelines and process the offshore output also shut ahead of the storm. Through Sunday, a cumulative total of 8.8 million barrels per day of crude oil production and 8.3 billion cubic feet per day of natural gas output from the Gulf has been shut because of Hurricane Delta.The area produces about 17% of total daily U.S. oil production and 5% of daily natural gas production.

 

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Another natural catastrophe has hit 'Murica? Hmm... Seems to be an oddly lot of them, considering statistical calculations of such things, or however it is called by the mathematically inclined... Is this really natural and random, or does it go against statistical likelihood?...

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