U.S. Gulf of Mexico oil and gas production has been shut-in as a response to Tropical Storm Sally. U.S. Gulf of Mexico (GOM) oil and gas production has been shut-in as a response to Tropical Storm Sally, just a few days after output came back online in the region following an outage caused by Hurricane Laura. According to the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), as of September 14, approximately 21.39 percent of the current oil production and around 25.28 percent of the natural gas production in the U.S. GOM had been shut-in. Personnel were said to have been evacuated from a total of 147 production platforms, which equates to 22.86 percent of the 643 manned platforms in the U.S. GOM. Staff were also said to have been evacuated from three non-dynamically positioned rigs, which equates to 30 percent of the 10 rigs of this type currently operating […]