Sept 12 (Reuters) - Shell said on Thursday that

downstream issues stemming from hurricane Francine led to

curtailed production at Appomattox, Mars, Vito, Ursa, and

Olympus in the Gulf of Mexico.

"We have begun redeploying personnel to our Perdido asset,

while production there and at our Auger and Enchilada/Salsa

assets is still shut in. Drilling remains paused at our Whale

asset, scheduled to begin operations later this year," the

company added.

(Reporting by Anushree Mukherjee in Bengaluru)