09/04/2026
Hurricane season opened with Tropical Storm Arthur making landfall near the Texas coast.
There are three remaining months of extreme heat, storm activity, and the kind of equipment stress that doesn't show up on a basic alarm until something has already failed.
The Gulf of America alone accounts for 13% of all U.S. crude oil production. When a major storm moves through, operators don't just lose a day of output β they lose visibility into what the storm did to their assets while no one was watching.
Heat degrades fluid viscosity. Storms leave hidden damage. And the wells that looked fine on the last site visit may not be fine anymore.
Continuous monitoring doesn't eliminate extreme weather, but it does eliminate the blind spot that comes after it.
Swipe through to see what hurricane season actually does to upstream operations and what operators can do about it β