For all of the initial fears it generated among traders and Gulf Coast residents, Hurricane Dean inflicted apparently little damage to or disruptions of oil and gas operations in the Gulf of Mexico.It wasn’t for want of effort. When Dean hit the Yucatan Peninsula on Aug. 21 with 165 mph winds gusting to 200 mph, it was a rare Category 5 hurricane and the third-most powerful Atlantic hurricane to make landfall since record-keeping began in the 1850s. But as usually happens when hurricanes move across land, Dean weakened to a Category 1 storm before it reached the Bay of Campeche, where Petroleos Mexicanos has 66% of its oil production. Its projected path was through the productive Ca...