30% of US oil production shut down in the Gulf of Mexico

reported by Mehr reporter quoted Reuters, the occurrence of the Francine storm caused the US oil and gas production to decrease in the Gulf of Mexico.

According to official sources, the storm caused 30% of the oil extraction capacity and 41% of the gas extraction capacity from the Gulf of Mexico to go out of operation.

Hurricane Francine has hit the Gulf of Mexico with a speed of about 160 kilometers per hour and entered the state of Louisiana. The occurrence of this storm has caused the breaking of trees, flooding of beaches and power outages in 4 American states.

A report shows that last night 37,000 subscribers in Louisiana faced power outage and.

The US Environmental and Safety Executive Office has announced that during the last night, due to the storm, 522 thousand barrels of oil per day and 755 million cubic feet per day of gas production in the US have been reduced. In general, Hurricane Francine has reduced 1.82 million barrels of oil production and 4.12 billion cubic feet of gas production in the United States.

This storm caused 52 units of American oil and gas facilities to be evacuated just last night. During the past days, the number of evacuated facilities had even reached 171 units.