BP on Friday morning became the first oil producer to start evacuating some personnel from its US Gulf of Mexico rigs and platforms in anticipation of a brewing storm, according to Reuters.
The British supermajor was taking preventive action in light of a weather event that the US National Hurricane Centre said was a disturbance in the Caribbean near Cuba with a 20% chance of becoming a hurricane in the next two days.
Other rig operators in the Gulf had not begun evacuation by late Friday morning but said they were on high alert for any developments.
