US producers in the Gulf of Mexico shut in about 71.51% of the current daily oil production and 58.84% of the current daily natural gas production ahead of Hurricane Isaias, according to the Marine Minerals Administration.
Personnel have been evacuated from 129 production platforms, representing 34.8% of the 371 staffed platforms in the Gulf of America, the agency said. It added that crews had also been evacuated from eight non-dynamically positioned rigs, equivalent to 72.7% of the 11 such rigs currently operating in the Gulf.
(Reporting by Noel John in Bengaluru; Editing by Mark Porter)