The Latest: Oil and gas platforms

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Latest on Hurricane Nate (all times local):
11:45 a.m.
Some oil and gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico are being shut down as Hurricane Nate churns toward the U.S. mainland.
Federal officials said Friday that workers were evacuated from 66 oil- and gas-producing platforms in the Gulf, about 9 percent of the total of manned facilities.
The Interior Department says crews also have been taken off five drilling rigs and other rigs have been moved out of the storm’