FT.com
Mexico clears oil rigs as hurricane nears
By Javier Blas in London and agencies
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/96593284-4e46-11dc-85e7-0000779fd2ac.html
Published: August 19 2007
Mexican state oil company Pemex on Sunday evacuated thousands of oil workers from the Gulf of Mexico and warned it might close up to 2.2m barrels a day of crude oil production as the powerful hurricane approached.
Pemex said it was evacuating 13,360 workers – most of its workforce in the area - and that it might order the ”total closure of the oil wells” in the Cantarell oil field and other fields.
Geez....Do they have their families and cousins out there?