HOUSTON (Reuters) - Ports from Corpus Christi, Texas, to Lake Charles, Louisiana, including Houston, were shut Friday due to Hurricane Ike, officials of the U.S. Coast Guard and pilots groups said. Ships' pilots stopped...
McNeese State canceled Saturday's home football game against Cal Poly because of Hurricane Ike's potential effects on Lake Charles.The university is scheduled to close Thursday at noon, and Calcasieu Parish has called an 8...
BATON ROUGE, La., Sept. 11, 2008 – With parts of Louisiana still recovering from the damage of Hurricane Gustav and National Guardsmen continuing to provide assistance, Gov. Bobby Jindal has directed troops to relocate,...
Houston (Platts) --10 Sep 2008 -- [Petrochemicals] LyondellBasell confirmed Wednesday that the majority of their facilities would be offline by Friday evening ahead of Hurricane Ike's arrival on the US Gulf Coast. "In...
Houston (Platts) -- 2Sep2008 -- Westlake's 590 million lbs/year styrene monomer facility at Lake Charles, Louisiana, remained offline Tuesday, a source confirmed. Lake Charles is still under mandatory evacuation, he added....
Only one of Isle of Capri Corp.'s three Gulf Coast casinos sustained damage from Hurricane Gustav, the Creve Coeur-based gambling company said Tuesday morning. And that was called "minimal." Casinos in Natchez and Biloxi,...
Citgo asked the U.S. Department of Energy Tuesday to release oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the federal agency said in a statement.The oil giant's Lake Charles, La., refinery requested 250,000 barrels of oil...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Coast Guard said ship traffic at Port Arthur, Texas, and Lake Charles, Louisiana, was still halted on Tuesday morning, after being shut on Sunday ahead of Hurricane Gustav's landfall. Survey...