Oil prices up 3% as Hurricane Delta threatens Gulf of Mexico | Al Jazeera

Energy companies were securing offshore production platforms and evacuating workers on Tuesday, some for the sixth time this year, as a major hurricane took aim at US oil production in the Gulf of Mexico.


Hurricane Delta, the 25th named storm of the 2020 Atlantic Hurricane season, was churning in the Caribbean with sustained winds of 225 kilometers per hour, already a dangerous Category-4 storm that is expected to scrape across Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula and re-enter the Gulf of Mexico.