Tropical Storm Cindy now threatens land-based energy operations
Boston — Tropical Storm Cindy, which has already curbed energy production in the Gulf of Mexico, disrupted shipping and forced workers off oil and gas platforms, is now dumping rain on the Gulf Coast. With top winds of 80km/h, the system is moving northwest towards the coast and was about 170km south of Lake Charles, Louisiana, the US National Hurricane Centre said in an advisory issued at 11pm New York time. While Cindy was not forecast to move across southeastern Texas or southwestern Louisiana until early Thursday, heavy rainfall was already affecting the northern Gulf Coast. The storm has shut one-sixth of the oil production in the Gulf of Mexico, halted vessel unloadings at a major oil-import terminal and triggered a force majeure on a system that collects natural gas from offshore platforms. Once Cindy makes landfall, it could threaten to disrupt even more energy operations in a region that accounts for about half of the nation’s oil-refining capacity. "The biggest impact woul...
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