September 17, 2024--Written by Daniel Graeber for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Crews are returning to their offshore work stations and oil and gas production is recovering, though about 20% of the crude oil production from the Gulf of Mexico remains offline in the wake of tropical storm activity, the federal government said.

Watches and warnings related to what was left of Hurricane Francine ended during the weekend. The storm made landfall last week as a Category 2 hurricane, knocking power out for nearly a half million people in the Gulf Coast states.