Mexican oil rigs will be skirted by hurricane Alex on Thursday, as it is gaining more strength. It is expected to make a landfall on Wednesday.

The storm became a hurricane of Category 1, late Tuesday night. It is slowly moving westward to Gulf of Mexico where its drop will be similar to foot of rain.

The National Hurricane Center cautioned that after reaching the coast south of Brownsville in Texas, it may become a Category 2 hurricane. It will start to lose its strength, when it will move towards the land.

The hurricane was expected to miss the main oil drilling spots but the turbulent seas and rain were already hindering the attempts to control the harm caused by a current spill from the major leak at a facility of BP Plc, south of Louisiana.

The storm is randomly moving towards the west with a speed of approximately 5 mph. The NHC revealed that the winds packed with Alex, have the speed of 80 miles per hour.

Warnings have been issued from the Texas coast which is situated south of Baffin Bay to Rio Grande to La Cruz, which is situated close to the coast of Mexico.