Cheniere evacuated the gas processing plant on the Gulf of Mexico shore. This happened because of the raging Hurricane Laura in the area, which the day before was assigned the 4th of 5 categories of potential damage, as its wind speed reaches 210 - 250 km / h. A total of 310 offshore oil facilities were evacuated along the way of Laura, 81% of oil production or 1.56 million barrels per day and 61% of natural gas production in the region was stopped. 6 refineries were shut down, processing 2.33 million barrels of oil per day, which is 12% of the volume of oil refining in the USA.