We cannot drill our way out of this oil crisis. Since 2000, oil companies working in the U.S. have doubled the number of wells drilled per year.
Although increased drilling has added new oil to the nation's supply, it has not done so fast enough to offset the terminal decline of existing fields.
We are going to have to import more of our oil. Period.
Joined: Sep 16, 2004 Posts: 4047 Location: Southwest WI
Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 8:50 pm Post subject: Re: Refinery Outages and Pipeline Problems 2007 -08
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Oil production at Prudhoe Bay, the nation's most prolific oil field, halted on Friday when a vehicle clearing snowdrifts damaged the power supply to processing centers.
Prudhoe Bay had been sending about 380,000 barrels of crude oil each day down the trans-Alaska oil pipeline, said Steve Rinehart, spokesman for field operator BP. Rinehart said production on Friday would be "way down" and would ramp back up over the next several days. It's unclear how much oil production was disrupted, the state said.
BP's Northstar field also went offline as a result of the power outage. Northstar produces about 79,000 barrels of crude daily from a man-made island in the Beaufort Sea. All told, North Slope oil fields produce about 730,000 barrels each day.
With a blizzard hampering visibility, the operator of a frontloader struck a compressed air line at the central power station, Rinehart said. The line controls the power station's fuel system. Seven plants shut down as a result.
All of the plants, which process the production from oil wells, had backup generators, said the state Department of Natural Resources. But the backup generator at Gathering Center 1, one of the big processing plants, overheated and had to be shut down, the department said.
Five of the seven main generators at Prudhoe's Central Power Station are back up, and power has been restored to the electrical grid, the resources department said.
BP hopes to have the rest operating by today, Rinehart said.
There were no injuries, and power supplies to workers' camps and other facilities in the remote Arctic region were not interrupted.
State officials said BP had not reported any spills. They are relying on the company for periodic updates, according to Allison Iversen, coordinator of the state Petroleum Systems Integrity Office.
http://www.adn.com/money/story/401871.html _________________ "Oil is going up because we use too much oil, and the capacity to replace reserves is dwindling"
-President Bush 11/07/07
Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 9:14 am Post subject: Re: Refinery Outages and Pipeline Problems 2007 -08
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In other news lifting prices, independent refiner Holly Corp. said a key unit at its New Mexico refinery was shut down for repairs, cutting estimated May gasoline production by as much as 756,000 gallons per day. The shutdown occurred while the fluid catalytic cracking unit was being brought back online from a previous shutdown May 7.
Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 7:40 pm Post subject: Re: Refinery Outages and Pipeline Problems 2007 -08
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Chevron Corp (CVX.N: Quote, Profile, Research) shut a crude unit at its 260,000-barrel-per-day El Segundo, California, refinery this week for planned work, sources familiar with operations said on Tuesday.
A Chevron spokesman was not immediately available for comment, but sources said the smaller of the two crude units at the Los Angeles-area refinery was shut down.
Joined: Oct 23, 2004 Posts: 5105 Location: New Jersey
Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 5:06 pm Post subject: Re: Refinery Outages and Pipeline Problems 2007 -08
Possibly this refinery could be out until Thursday.
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Power Outage Causes Flaring, Evacuation at Motiva
News KBMT
Story Created: Jun 2, 2008 at 3:27 PM CDT
Story Updated: Jun 2, 2008 at 3:27 PM CDT
Nearly 1500 workers were evacuated Monday from the Motiva Refinery in Port Arthur after a power failure resulted in flaring at the plant. The incident started around 11:30 a.m.
Company spokesperson Verna Rutherford tells KBMT 12 news 6 workers were taken to the hospital as a precaution. Rutherford went on to say she does not expect the flaring to cause problems for anyone outside of the plant's fence.
The cause of the outage is said to be an internal power source problem at the facility and is not the result of loss of power from Entergy.
Flaring at Motiva is expected to continue through Thursday.
KBMT _________________ It's already over, now it's just a matter of adjusting.
Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 7:19 am Post subject: Re: Refinery Outages and Pipeline Problems 2007 -08
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Magellan Midstream Partners L.P., a U.S. oil products distributor, shut its main pipeline system in Kansas City after a fire erupted in a gasoline storage tank, cutting supplies to consumers in Iowa and Nebraska.
The fire broke out after a lightning strike at 7:30 p.m. local time yesterday and was still burning under control at 2:10 a.m. this morning, Jeff Myers, Magellan's area supervisor, said in a telephone interview today. The pipeline moves gasoline and diesel from refineries in Tulsa to Midwest consumers. The entire site is closed until an assessment can be completed, Myers said.
Joined: Oct 23, 2004 Posts: 5105 Location: New Jersey
Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 6:04 pm Post subject: Re: Refinery Outages and Pipeline Problems 2007 -08
It's not clear exactly how many fuel shipments are being delayed, but there is some impact on supplies:
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Magellan says 'exploring options' to send fuels from Kansas City
New York (Platts)--4Jun2008
Magellan Midstream Partners has shut its fuel products terminal in Kansas City, Kansas, and its mainline in and out of the terminal until possible damage to the pipeline system from an ongoing fire at a storage tank there can be assessed, a company spokesman said Wednesday.
"We are not receiving any products into the Kansas City terminal and nothing is being shipped out," Heine said. Magellan is "exploring a number of options" available "because of the flexibility" of the mainline to ship products beyond Kansas City, said the spokesman, Bruce Heine.
The Kansas City truck rack has been closed because of the fire at the terminal, Heine said.
The fire, which was believed to have been started Tuesday night by a lightning strike, was continuing its controlled burn, Heine said. Neither Heine nor local fire officials had an estimate on when the fire would be fully extinguished.
It would only be after the fire was completely out that Magellan would be able to determine whether repairs were necessary to its mainline system, Heine said.
The 145,000-barrel storage tank was 20% full at the time when the fire started, Heine said. A Kansas City Fire Department spokesman said the tank was holding gasoline.
Platts _________________ It's already over, now it's just a matter of adjusting.
Joined: Oct 23, 2004 Posts: 5105 Location: New Jersey
Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 8:38 pm Post subject: Re: Refinery Outages and Pipeline Problems 2007 -08
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Motiva: Port Arthur Refinery Ops To Return To Normal Friday
DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
June 5, 2008 3:20 p.m.
HOUSTON (Dow Jones)--Motiva Enterprises LLP's Port Arthur, Texas, refinery has restarted production of gasoline and other petroleum products after operations shut down due to power failure, the company said Thursday. Most processing units were expected to return to normal operations by Friday, a company spokesman said.
The refinery shut at noon EDT Monday.
The 285,000 barrel-a-day refinery is one of three refineries operated by Motiva, a joint venture between Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSA) and Saudi Aramco.
_________________ It's already over, now it's just a matter of adjusting.
Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 11:58 am Post subject: Re: Refinery Outages and Pipeline Problems 2007 -08
Has anyone heard anything else about this? Not much on the net that I could find yet.
"Blast at oil refinery injures four workers
A blast rocked an oil refinery n Big Spring, Texas, injuring four workers and shaking buildings miles away...Emergency officials warned of the potential for more explosions."
It's in the paper version of the Minneapolis Start and Tribune (A12) but not on their web site (or on anyone else's as far as I can see).
Joined: Oct 25, 2004 Posts: 1123 Location: Stalag 13
Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 10:00 pm Post subject: Re: Refinery Outages and Pipeline Problems 2007 -08
Fire shuts Norwegian oil platform in North Sea
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Norwegian oil company StatoilHydro ASA says it has halted oil and gas production on a North Sea platform after a fire broke out.
The operator says the fire was soon extinguished on the Oseberg A platform on Sunday afternoon and there was no need to evacuate personnel. The rig is situated 80 miles northwest of the port city of Bergen on Norway's western coast.
It was not immediately clear what caused the fire.
Last year, the platform produced some 90,000 barrels a day. It was not clear when production could begin again.
link _________________ Now why didn't I think of that?
Joined: Oct 25, 2004 Posts: 1123 Location: Stalag 13
Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 3:23 am Post subject: Re: Refinery Outages and Pipeline Problems 2007 -08
Actually, it appears that 156,000 bpd oil are off line right now in the North Sea:
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Oseberg platforms A, B and D as well as Oseberg East and South are shut, company spokesman Gisle Johanson said by telephone today, without being able to give a restart date or production figure. Platform C was already shut for maintenance.
The fields produced about 156,000 barrels of oil a day in 2007, according to data from Norway's Oil Ministry.
link _________________ Now why didn't I think of that?
Joined: Oct 25, 2004 Posts: 1123 Location: Stalag 13
Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 3:53 am Post subject: Re: Refinery Outages and Pipeline Problems 2007 -08
Shell shuts down Nigerian oil field after attack
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Nigeria - Royal Dutch Shell said it shut down production from an offshore oil field that produces about 200,000 barrels per day after the most powerful militant group in Nigeria launched an attack on an installation there Thursday.
The group also said it captured an American worker on a supply vessel in the area of the rig.
A leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta told The Associated Press that militants attacked the Bonga oil field more than 65 miles from land. But the fighters weren't able to enter a computer control room, which they had hoped to destroy.
The militant leader spoke on condition of anonymity to avoid punishment by authorities.
Olav Ljosne, a spokesman for Royal Dutch Shell, confirmed an attack, but gave no details. He said production had been stopped from the field, which normally produces about 200,000 barrels of crude per day.
link _________________ Now why didn't I think of that?
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