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US Gulf oil output at a trickle ahead of Gustav

HOUSTON (Reuters) - U.S. energy companies shut nearly all offshore oil production and were racing to bring down flood-prone Louisiana refineries on Sunday ahead of Hurricane Gustav's landfall, which could rival the wrath of 2005's Hurricane Katrina. <p><a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~a/reuters/topNews?a=HQAjH6"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~a/reuters/topNews?i=HQAjH6" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=B3eiBK"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=B3eiBK" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=2Yn2dk"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=2Yn2dk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=frpOTk"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=frpOTk" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~4/380021464" height="1" width="1"/>