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Oil companies with off-shore platforms in the Gulf of Mexico are taking precautions amid threatening storm forecasts for the area around Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, including the chance of a tropical cyclone.

US weather forecasters say a storm system moving through the Gulf of Mexico and delaying work on BP's broken oil well has weakened. The National Hurricane Center said Saturday that the remnants of Tropical Storm Bonnie are diminishing as it ...

Washington was preparing a revised offshore oil drilling moratorium and cleanup efforts in the Gulf of Mexico returned to normal on Friday after hurricane Alex passed through the region without doing major damage.

Alex has strengthened in the Gulf of Mexico to become the first June hurricane on the Atlantic side of the United States since 1995, the National Hurricane Center says.

The first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season was on track on Saturday to reach the Gulf of Mexico within days, a potential threat to containment and cleanup of the worst ever US oil spill.

Hurricane Ida weakened to a Category 1 storm as it moved across the Gulf of Mexico early Monday, forecasters said.