Texas’ oil and gas sector is prepared for hurricane season, the Texas Oil and Gas Association (TXOGA) has said.
“As hurricane season begins, Texas’ oil and natural gas industry is taking proactive steps to ensure safe operations and minimize disruptions,” TXOGA said in a statement posted on its page yesterday from Twitter.
As hurricane season begins, Texas’ oil and natural gas industry is taking proactive steps to ensure safe operations and minimize disruption. #HurricaneReady pic.twitter.com/J6fa0noX77
— Texas Oil & Gas Association (@TXOGA) July 5, 2023
In a dedicated hurricane section of its website, TXOGA states that its companies and employees “are ready to keep Texas running when the storm hits.”
“Ahead of the first hurricane of the season, we’re preparing,” the company says on its site.
“Texas’ oil and natural gas industry is a vital part of the collaborative effort to keep our citizens safe,” he adds.
In this section of its site, TXOGA notes that after each natural disaster, it “thoroughly” analyzes its response to make its plans, procedures and working relationships with state and federal agencies “even stronger than before “.
“The Texas oil and natural gas industry has used post-storm data for years to better prepare for hurricane season each year and continues to look for ways to improve preparedness,” the TXOGA site notes.
“As we move through any hurricane season, preparedness, conservation and patience after a storm will be critical to our collective success,” he adds.
“With any hurricane season upon us, we are reminded of the role we as individual Texans play when it comes to preparing for and recovering from a storm. All Texans can help themselves and their neighbors by maintaining normal routines and not buying excess fuel before or after a storm,” he continues.
TXOGA describes itself as a statewide trade association representing all facets of the Texas oil and gas industry, including small independents and major producers. Collectively, TXOGA members produce approximately 90 percent of Texas’ crude oil and natural gas, operate nearly 90 percent of the state’s refining capacity, and are responsible for the vast majority of the state’s natural gas pipelines. state, highlights the TXOGA site.
In May, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) revealed Forecast for the 2023 Atlantic hurricane seasonwhich runs from June 1 to November 30, in a statement published on its site.
The forecast predicts a 40 percent chance of a near-normal season, a 30 percent chance of an above-normal season and a 30 percent chance of a below-normal season, he noted NOAA in the statement, adding that the organization expects a range of 12 to 17 named storms in total. Of those, five to nine could become hurricanes, including one to four major hurricanes, according to NOAA, which said it has 70 percent confidence in those ranges.
At the time of writing, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) does not expect any tropical cyclone activity during the next 48 hours in the Atlantic. In the eastern Pacific, however, there is a disturbance with a 50 percent chance of cyclone formation in the next 48 hours, the NHC site shows.
NOAA’s NHC hurricane specialists analyze satellite imagery, other observations, and computer models to make forecast decisions and create hazard information for emergency managers, the media, and the public for hurricanes, tropical storms and tropical depressions, NOAA notes on its site. The key data comes from NOAA satellites orbiting the earth, continuously watching tropical cyclones from start to finish, the site adds.
Atlantic weather systems have severely affected oil and gas operations in the Gulf of Mexico in the past. For example, at its peak, Hurricane Ida shut down 95.65 percent of Gulf of Mexico oil production on Aug. 29, 2021, and 94.47 percent of Gulf of Mexico gas production on Aug. 31, 2021, Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) figures show. In October 2020, BSEE estimated at one point that approximately 84.8 percent of oil production and 57.6 percent of natural gas production in the US Gulf of Mexico had been closed as a result of the Zeta storm. Several other storms affected U.S. oil and gas production in 2020, including Hurricane Delta, Hurricane Sally, Hurricane Laura, and Tropical Storm Cristobal.
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