{"id":1547187,"date":"2025-07-15T20:40:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T00:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/tropical-threat-brewing-off-florida-gulf-of-america-offshore-oil-gas-rigs-in-crosshairs\/1547187\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T20:40:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T00:40:00","slug":"tropical-threat-brewing-off-florida-gulf-of-america-offshore-oil-gas-rigs-in-crosshairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/tropical-threat-brewing-off-florida-gulf-of-america-offshore-oil-gas-rigs-in-crosshairs\/1547187\/","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Threat Brewing Off Florida, Gulf Of America Offshore Oil &amp; Gas Rigs In Crosshairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Tropical Threat Brewing Off Florida, Gulf Of America Offshore Oil &amp; Gas Rigs In Crosshairs<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>Meteorologists are closely monitoring Invest 93-L, a disorganized area of low pressure situated off Florida&#8217;s east coast on Tuesday morning. Conditions appear increasingly favorable for gradual development, and there is a growing likelihood that the system could strengthen into a tropical depression\u2014or potentially a tropical storm\u2014later this week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>East of the Florida Peninsula into the Northeastern Gulf (AL93): Satellite and radar data indicate that the shower and thunderstorm activity associated with the low pressure located just offshore of the east coast of Florida remains disorganized<\/strong>,&#8221; the\u00a0National Hurricane Center wrote in an update.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>NHC expects the system to &#8220;<strong>move westward across the Florida Peninsula today and then reach the northeastern Gulf by Wednesday<\/strong>,&#8221; adding that &#8220;<strong>conditions appear generally favorable for additional development, and a tropical depression could form while the system moves across the northeastern and north-central Gulf<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As AL93 tracks\u00a0over Central Florida towards the Gulf of America,\u00a0spaghetti models provide a snapshot of agreement among various forecasts that show the storm&#8217;s track towards the coastal area of\u00a0Louisiana, which is home to one of the highest concentrations of offshore oil and gas platforms in the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spaghetti Models<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/93L_tracks_latest.png?itok=x4XiAVgn\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Oil\/Gas Assets in Gulf of America<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/Snag_3fce25f.png?itok=xkaC5KiG\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All eyes are on AL93 heading into Wednesday, with growing concern over potential operational risks for offshore oil and gas platforms in the Gulf.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Tue, 07\/15\/2025 &#8211; 16:40<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/weather\/tropical-threat-brewing-florida-gulf-america-offshore-oil-gas-rigs-crosshairs\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/weather\/tropical-threat-brewing-florida-gulf-america-offshore-oil-gas-rigs-crosshairs<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tropical Threat Brewing Off Florida, Gulf Of America Offshore Oil &amp; Gas Rigs In Crosshairs Meteorologists are closely monitoring Invest 93-L, a disorganized area of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1547188,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1547187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1547187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1547188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1547187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1547187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1547187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}