US Gulf of Mexico producers have opted to shut more of their production and evacuate crews Aug. 23 as meteorologists revised the tracks of two tropical storms, Marco and Laura, that are set to come ashore back-to-back this week, likely along the Louisiana coast. Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now Statoil said that it had shut-in production and evacuated crews from its US Gulf platforms on Aug. 22. The company has 123,000 boe/d of offshore US oil and gas production from nine Gulf fields, its website said. The company is also developing two other fields, Vito and North Platte. And late Aug. 22, Shell had “shut in production at all but one of our assets” in the US Gulf, the company said in […]