HOUSTON, July 21 (Reuters) - Shell Oil Co began flying workers from platforms in the western Gulf of Mexico on Sunday ahead of Tropical Storm Dolly, according to a statement issued by the company on Monday.
Shell said there was no impact to production in the Gulf from Sunday's evacuations or from plans to pull additional workers from platforms that may be in path of the first storm of the Atlantic hurricane season to menace offshore oil and natural gas production areas.
Shell said it took 125 people off platforms on Sunday and planned to take another 60 from the Gulf on Monday.
The company does not expect production to be affected as long as Dolly follows a forecast path across the southern Gulf toward landfall near the U.S.-Mexico border.
Other oil and natural gas companies said they were monitoring the storm's progress as it enters the Gulf on Monday morning after crossing Mexico's Yucatan peninsula overnight.
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Hurricane Watch Issued For South TexasMIAMI (Reuters) - A hurricane watch was issued for the southern portion of the Texas coast on Monday as Tropical Storm Dolly emerged from the Yucatan over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico and appeared likely to become a hurricane, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
The watch, which means hurricane conditions can be expected within 36 hours, was issued from Brownsville north to Port O'Connor, the hurricane center said.
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