Gulf players keep weather eye on Felix

US Gulf of Mexico producers are monitoring Hurricane Felix - upgraded early this morning by the National Hurricane Centre to a "potentially catastrophic" Category 5 storm packing winds up to 165 miles per hour (270 kilometres per hour) - as it headed towards Central America, but none reported reduced output or have made moves to evacuate offshore workers.

Eye of the storm: an infrared satellite image provided by NOAA and taken at 19:45 EDT yesterday shows Hurricane Felix as it churns across the central sector of the Caribbean Sea
Eye of the storm: an infrared satellite image provided by NOAA and taken at 19:45 EDT yesterday shows Hurricane Felix as it churns across the central sector of the Caribbean Sea
Published 3 September 2007, 04:02Updated 28 June 2012, 06:11
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