The National Hurricane Center has said Tropical Depression No. 5 has re-entered the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Mississippi and has a 60% chance of becoming a tropical storm system within the next 48 hours

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BP, Chevron, Anadarko Petroleum and Marathon Oil have all reported that their operations have not been affected. The Louisiana Offshore Oil Port reports operations are normal. According to the US Department of the Interior, the northern Gulf of Mexico provides 30% of the nation's oil production and 11% of natural gas output and more than 40% of the nation's refining capacity is found along the Gulf Coast from Corpus Christi, Texas, to Pascagoula, Mississippi.