July gas futures rose 1.6% to the low $2.60s on a short-covering rally going into the weekend as a storm brews in the Gulf of Mexico near production areas prompting evacuations of non-essential workers from a few offshore platforms

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BHP, which operates two platforms in the Gulf, Shenzi and Neptune, said it is shutting in production in advance of the storm. The two platforms have a combined production capacity of 170,000 barrels of oil and 100 million cubic feet of natural gas per day.