No storms are currently threatening the United States' oil and natural gas production in the northern Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said Wednesday. A tropical storm and a tropical depression which are in the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico are not causing a threat, but Tropical Depression 13 (TD-13), could pose a problem to U.S. oil production in the region, NHC said. TD-13 could disrupt operations in the Cantarell Complex of Mexican oil fields beneath the Bay of Campeche in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico, Reuters reported. The Cantarell Complex is one of the most productive oil fields in the world, supplying about two thirds of Mexico's crude oil output, Reuters reported. TD-13 is carrying maximum sustained winds near 30 miles per hour in the Bay of Campeche, NHC said. The depression will likely strengthen into a tropical storm over the next 24 hours, but is not expected to strengthen into a hurricane before moving inland and dissipating over central Mexico over the next 96 hours, NHC reported.
