Chevron Cuts Australia Oil Output on Cyclone Bianca

Chevron Corp., the second-largest U.S. oil company, shut some output at its Barrow Island and Thevenard Island fields off northwest Australia ahead of Tropical Cyclone Bianca.
Wells and equipment were being secured and “non- essential” workers evacuated, the company said today in an e- mailed statement. The fields produce about a combined 8,000 barrels a day of oil, Gareth Johnstone, a Chevron spokesman based in Singapore, said by telephone.
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Source: Bloomberg