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Jun 30

About 26.33% of oil production and about 14.36% of natural-gas production in the Gulf of Mexico has been shut in due to Hurricane Alex.

Personnel from a total of 74 production platforms, equivalent to 11.7% of the 634 manned platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, have been evacuated so far …”

[Holy shit, 634 platforms?]

[On the “up” side…] Neither the drilling rigs nor the containment vessels involved in the BP oil-spill response have been required to evacuate…

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