June 8 (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell PLC said it
will restart drilling and begin redeploying some non-essential
personnel on some of its offshore assets in the Gulf of Mexico
on Monday and Tuesday as conditions improve following tropical
storm Cristobal.
"There were no impacts to our production as a result of TS
Cristobal, and we expect to resume our drilling operations as
conditions continue to improve today and tomorrow," the company
said.
The company also said separately that its onshore assets
were not impacted by the storm.
Cristobal, which has weakened after making landfall in
Louisiana on Sunday, led to the shutdown of an estimated 34.30%
of oil production in the Gulf of Mexico, the Bureau of Safety
and Environmental Enforcement said on Sunday.
Shell, along with other companies, including Murphy Oil
, began evacuating personnel on June 4.
(Reporting by Arpan Varghese in Bengaluru; Editing by Dan
Grebler)