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HOUSTON-Shell Oil Co began flying workers from platforms in the western Gulf of Mexico on Sunday ahead of Tropical Storm Dolly, but said no production was shut, according to a statement issued by the company on Monday. Fellow energy giant Exxon Mobil said it was making preparations for heavy weather across its Gulf and South Texas operations.The U.S. Energy Information Administration said Dolly, which is forecast to become a hurricane by Tuesday night, would likely miss major offshore production areas but could affect the three Corpus Christi, Texas, refineries with power outages and flooding if it makes landfall as forecast on the Texas coast sometime on Wednesday.Other oil and natural gas companies said they were monitoring the storm's progress as it moved through the Gulf on Monday after crossing Mexico's Yucatan peninsula overnight.Shell said it took 125 people off platforms on Sunday and planned to take another 60 from the Gulf on Monday.The company does not expect production to be affected as long as Dolly follows a forecast path across the southern Gulf toward landfall on the Texas coast.The 10 a.m. CDT forecast from the U.S. National Hurricane Center projected that Dolly will move northwest across the southern Gulf of Mexico to make landfall Wednesday night north of Brownsville, Texas.The National Hurricane Center has issued a hurricane watch from the Mexican border to Port O'Connor, Texas. Included in that watch was the refining center of Corpus Christi.The Mexican government has issued a hurricane watch from Rio San Fernando, Texas, to the U.S. border.To read more go to:
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