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Oil rose for a fourth straight day Thursday as Tropical Storm Gustav prepared to enter the Gulf of Mexico causing oil / natural gas companies to evaluate oil rigs in the area.Oil rose above $120 a barrel earlier Thursday morning, but is now trading below that level. Oil has risen about $10 in a week on hurricane concerns and geopolitical tensions.
The other, major energy commodities also jumped Thursday morning on news of storm's likely track. Unleaded gasoline rose 6 cents to $3.12 per gallon, heating oil increased about 6 cents to $3.32 per gallon, and natural gas climbed 8 cents to $8.69 per million BTUs.
As of 8 a.m. EDT, Gustav was located about 70 miles east of Jamaica at 17.8N Latitude and 75.6W Longitude, moving west/southwest at 6 mph, with top wind speeds of 70 miles per hour, according to weather.com. Forecasters expect Gustav to track west/northwest, enter the Gulf of Mexico, strengthen to hurricane status, and strike the U.S mainland between Houston and the Florida Panhandle, with the most likely landfall being Louisiana.
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