Shell sends personnel back to US Gulf operations

19 August 2008 15:45  [Source: ICIS news]

HOUSTON (ICIS news)--Oil major Shell has started sending personnel back to its offshore operations in the Gulf of Mexico, after a tropical storm missed the facilities and instead made landfall in Florida, the company said on Tuesday.

Shell had evacuated 425 personnel as a precaution, as Tropical Storm Fay formed in the Caribbean Sea, the company said.

Most of the personnel were from Shell's operations in the eastern Gulf.

The storm had no effect on Shell's operations, the company said.

As of 07:00 am Houston time (12:00 GMT), Fay was about 30 miles (50km) east-southeast of Fort Myers, Florida, according to the National Hurricane Center.

Fay was moving north-northeast at about 9 miles/hour, a direction which would take the storm across the Florida peninsula, the centre said. Maximum sustained wind speeds were about 60 miles/hour.

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