More than 90% of crude oil production in the US Gulf of Mexico went offline in advance of Hurricane Delta as LNG plants and refineries shuttered or hunkered down in advance of the storm’s anticipated landfall on Oct. 9 in southwestern Louisiana. Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now Delta is targeting the same area already devastated by Hurricane Laura in late August, so the major refineries near Lake Charles, Louisiana remained closed. However, US Gulf Coast LNG producers were shutting down or making emergency preparations on Oct. 8 ahead of Delta now that most of the Gulf’s oil and gas flows have already come offline. More than 1.69 million b/d of US Gulf of Mexico crude production and […]