Many US Gulf refineries shut down, restarting

26 September 2008 22:25  [Source: ICIS news]

HOUSTON (ICIS news)--Three US Gulf coast refineries remained shut down, five were restarting and eight were running at reduced rates due to hurricanes Ike and Gustav, the US Department of Energy (DOE) said on Friday.

In related news, the DOE said that it has delivered nearly 4m bbl of emergency supply oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to Gulf coast refiners.

The latest deliveries from the DOE include a 500,000 bbl of crude oil to Citgo’s Lake Charles refinery in Louisiana and 150,000 bbl to Alon’s Krotz Springs refinery in Louisiana.

Shutdown Refineries
Company	Location	Capacity (bbl)
ExxonMobil	Beaumont	348,500
Total Petrochemicals	Port Arthur	232,000
Marathon	Texas City	76,000
total		656,500
Restarting
Company	Location	Capacity (bbl)
Valero	Port Arthur	289,000
BP	Texas City	467,720
Houston Refining	Houston	270,600
Pasadena Refining	Pasadena	100,000
Valero	Houston	83,000
total		1,210,320
Reduced Runs
Company	Location	Capacity (bbl)
Calcasieu	Lake Charles	78,000
Citgo	Lake Charles	429,500
ConocoPhillips	Westlake	239,400
Motiva	Port Arthur	285,000
ConocoPhillips	Sweeny	247,000
Deer Park Refining	Deer Park	329,800
ExxonMobil	Baytown	567,000
Valero	Texas City	199,500
total		2,375,200

Source: DOE

 

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