The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement has activated its hurricane response team as Hurricane Delta makes its way into the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) has revealed that it has activated its hurricane response team as Hurricane Delta makes its way into the U.S. Gulf of Mexico (GOM). The team is monitoring offshore oil and gas operations in the Gulf as platforms and rigs are evacuated in preparation for the hurricane, which the National Hurricane Center has described as “extremely dangerous”. As of October 6, personnel have been evacuated from a total of 56 production platforms in the U.S. GOM, or 8.71 percent of the 643 manned platforms in the region, according to the BSEE. Personnel are also said to have been evacuated from one non-dynamically positioned rig, which is equivalent to 10 percent of the 10 rigs of this type […]