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Gustav a solid test

09/08/2008
The oil and gas story from Hurricane Gustav is that the disruption could have been worse. Part of the reason it could have been worse is a bundle of lessons taught by the storm’s nastier predecessors of 2005.Gustav’s center made landfall near Morgan City, La., in the late morning of Sept. 1 as a Category 2 hurricane, with maximum sustained wind speeds near 110 mph. En route to Louisiana it crossed much of the oil and gas producing area of the Gulf of Mexico. It also idled a major segment of the Gulf Coast refining, petrochemical, and gas processing industry with personnel evacuations, power outages, and the threat of physical damage.According to the US Minerals Management, the...
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