GeneralGreen wrote:I can't find anything on Port Fourchon anywhere! ...
So some facts..
The area was covered with water...the roads were underwater...no workers reported to have returned there..and its now 3 days latter. hnmmmmm
The movie Oil Storm..it was the taking down of Port F that caused a nation wide oil crisis's.....hnmm if this port is wasted we can very well see 150USD oil in the near term....but more likely gasoline prices higher..
PORT FOURCHON – Despite 125-mph winds and a 6-foot storm surge caused by Hurricane Gustav, Port Fourchon’s oilfield operations escaped serious damage and could be operational as early as today, port officials said.
A power pole crosses La. 3090 at Port Fouchon Tuesday.
Business officials began performing damage assessments Tuesday with sights on resuming work using generator power in the next few days, Port Fourchon Police Chief Jon Callais said. He added power may be out for a week and a half, but the port does have clean drinking water.
The LOOP reports that they have several days of normal throughput in storage and will begin moving that crude oil when power is restored. Damage to Entergy’s coastal transmission system is delaying power from reaching the LOOP and its offshore facilities. LOOP officials are starting up generators once transportation and communications logistics improve.
LOOP hopes to resume crude deliveries Thursday
Wed Sep 3, 2008 5:57pm EDT
NEW YORK, Sept 3 (Reuters) - The Louisiana Offshore Oil Port said on Wednesday it hopes to resume crude oil deliveries to coastal refineries by Thursday using onshore storage, and added that marine operations offshore could resume by the weekend.
"We found no visible damage offshore, but we need to get out there and we're working on that now," a spokeswoman said.
LOOP, the nation's only deepwater offshore oil port and a key conduit for foreign oil shipments, halted operations ahead of Hurricane Gustav.
Three days after Hurricane Gustav made landfall, more than 95 percent of Gulf of Mexico oil production is still shuttered and a key hub for the offshore petroleum industry remains without power.Hurricane Gustav leaves Port Fourchon crippled
No electricity expected at key oil facility for weeks Friday, September 05, 2008
byr)[615]>From staff reports Times-Picayune Sept 5.2008 nola.com
Louisiana Oil Port Resumes Offloading Tankers, Deliveries
DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
September 5, 2008 11:55 a.m.
The Louisiana Offshore Oil Port has resumed operations at reduced capacity, nearly a week after shutting down ahead of Hurricane Gustav.
The port was not damaged by the hurricane, but is operating on emergency power owing to widespread outages in the local electric grid, according to a statement. LOOP offloads oil from tankers at an offshore facility, and sends crude to refineries in Louisiana and Texas, as well as to the Midwest via the Capline pipeline.
LOOP cannot operate all of its pumps on backup power, slowing the bringing of oil from tankers to shore, and limiting the amount of crude that can be piped to area refineries and pipelines. The port can process 1.2 million barrels a day at full capacity. About 10% of imported oil passes through LOOP.
LOOP began offloading tankers at 3:18 a.m. EDT on Friday, and resumed deliveries from its oil-storage facilities before 10 a.m. EDT.
As of 9:15 AM EDT September 14, the LOOP reports that it continues to operate limited operations from its Clovelly storage facility. Tanker offloadings remain suspended. Capline, which receives its crude oil from the LOOP, reported reduced movements along its pipeline.
Valero completes refinery shutdown
Valero completed a full shutdown of its 210,000 barrel-per-day refinery near Delaware City over the weekend, a company official reported today
Valero extends Delaware City shutdown until early May "Valero has decided to conduct additional boiler inspections and related boiler maintenance work at Delaware City during the current shutdown," said Bill Day, a spokesman for the refinery which has total throughput of 210,000 bpd.
Total refinery starts shutdown; duration uncertain
"We didn't expect the downturn to be so low," Benezit said then of the economy.
Brazil Petrobras Manaus Refinery Production Halted -Strikers "Production had to be shutdown at the Manaus refinery because there were no workers available to operate it at an emergency level," said Maluzio Ferreira, spokesman for Brazil's oil workers union, FUP.
Oman Sohar Refinery RFCC Unit In Unscheduled Shutdown -Source Oman's Sohar Refinery Co. has shut down the residue fluid catalytic cracking, or RFCC, unit, at its 116,400-barrel a day refinery for unscheduled maintenance due to technical problems, a person familiar with the situation said Sunday.
Czech Unipetrol plans shutdown at refinery Czech refiner Ceska Rafinerska said on Friday it would shut its Kralupy unit in mid-April due to upgrades and maintenance works.
Conoco sees small impact from Bayway fire ConocoPhillips said on Tuesday there was minimal impact from a brief Saturday fire at its Bayway refinery in Linden, New Jersey, and said planned maintenance work was still ongoing at the plant.
Recession to hit East Coast refineries hard: study U.S. East Coast refineries will take the hardest hit from the decline in production due to a recession-driven slide in gasoline demand, according to a study by consulting firm Wood Mackenzie released on Monday.
U.S. East Coast refineries will take the hardest hit from the decline in production due to a recession-driven slide in gasoline demand, according to a study by consulting firm Wood Mackenzie released on Monday.
bratticus wrote:WTF is the spring shoulder season? Anyhow it causes gasoline (petrol) prices to jump due to reduced refinery capacity. You must do the maintenance on a refinery or *boom*. But is this year different somehow?
bromius wrote: Hopefully we'll be smart about it and use the higher price as a reason change their behavior by say, walking more or at least buying a more fuel efficient vehicle.
vampyregirl wrote:Shouldn't the US relax certain regulations and allow new refineires to be built especially in light of the new oil discoveries in the Gulf of Mexico?
vampyregirl wrote:Shouldn't the US relax certain regulations and allow new refineires to be built especially in light of the new oil discoveries in the Gulf of Mexico?
shortonsense wrote:Peak oil has been going so well Vampy that refineries are being closed in the US because we aren't buying enough fuel.
shortonsense wrote:New construction takes place in places like Trinidad, exactly because the NIMBYS in the US aren't about to relax anything.
shortonsense wrote:Peak demand has really put a choke hold on the need for refineries.
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