BoeingBoy
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Since a new EIA weekly petroleum report is due out in a couple of days and the other thread was getting a little long, I thought I'd start a new thread just for the daily updates from the various government agencies.
So here's the latest from today - 9/5/05:
* According to Colonial Pipeline officials, full power has been restored to the pipeline at 2PM on 9/5/05 and is now at 100% of pumping capacity.
* The LOOP has been operating at almost full capacity today but Entergy has not yet restored power to the Clovelly storage facility. The LOOP expects to be at full capacity when Fourchon gets power, which should occur in about 7 days. LOOP currently is delivering crude oil to the Capline pipeline. Tankers are making crude deliveries to the LOOP. The US Navy is using sonar to help identify obstructions near the marine terminal so safe paths for large vessels can be marked. [I probably should have clarified before noe for any who might be wondering - LOOP is the Louisiana Offshore Oil Platform - or close to that - where tankers offload]
* The Capline pipeline system is now running at 960,000 barrels a day, which is over 80 percent of capacity.
* According to the Monday MMS reports, 27.83 percent of 819 manned platforms and 27.61 percent of 137 rigs have been evacuated in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM). Today’s shut-in oil production is 1,043,681 BOPD. The shut-in oil production is equivalent to 69.57% of the daily oil production in the GOM, which is currently approximately 1.5 million BOPD. This represents a 5 percent improvement from yesterday’s figures.
* As of 9:00 pm last night at least 55 miles of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway was still closed to navigation (from Mile Marker 15 to Mile Marker 70.) This is in the area between the Lower Mississippi and Gulfport, Mississippi. The US Coast Guard is surveying the waterway and replacing navigational aids at a rate of about 20 miles per day. At this rate the entire waterway should be open between the Lower Mississippi and all points east by the end of Wednesday. The Port of Gulfport is still closed and the Port of Pascagoula is only allowing vessels to operate in the day, if they have draughts of less than 12 feet. Other ports east of Pascagoula (in AL and FL) are open.
* Port of Mobile is operating during daylight hours only with temporary navigation aids in place. The Mississippi River is now officially open to ships with a draft of 35 feet during daylight hours. The US Army Corps of Engineers is currently dredging the channel so that Shell Oil company’s dock can receive a 40-foot draught crude oil tanker (arriving in a few days), to traverse channel and safely dock and unload. Currently the channel to Shell can only take ships with a draught of 38 feet or less.
Page 3 of the following pdf file lists the status of individual refineries in the affected region:
See page 3 for table
To summerize the table, 10 refineries with over 1.9 million bbls/day combined capacity remain shut down, 4 refineries with nearly 1.25 million bbls/day combined capacity are operating at a reduced capacity (output unspecified), and 15 refineries with a combined capacity of just over 3.2 million bbls/day are at normal production.
Jim
So here's the latest from today - 9/5/05:
* According to Colonial Pipeline officials, full power has been restored to the pipeline at 2PM on 9/5/05 and is now at 100% of pumping capacity.
* The LOOP has been operating at almost full capacity today but Entergy has not yet restored power to the Clovelly storage facility. The LOOP expects to be at full capacity when Fourchon gets power, which should occur in about 7 days. LOOP currently is delivering crude oil to the Capline pipeline. Tankers are making crude deliveries to the LOOP. The US Navy is using sonar to help identify obstructions near the marine terminal so safe paths for large vessels can be marked. [I probably should have clarified before noe for any who might be wondering - LOOP is the Louisiana Offshore Oil Platform - or close to that - where tankers offload]
* The Capline pipeline system is now running at 960,000 barrels a day, which is over 80 percent of capacity.
* According to the Monday MMS reports, 27.83 percent of 819 manned platforms and 27.61 percent of 137 rigs have been evacuated in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM). Today’s shut-in oil production is 1,043,681 BOPD. The shut-in oil production is equivalent to 69.57% of the daily oil production in the GOM, which is currently approximately 1.5 million BOPD. This represents a 5 percent improvement from yesterday’s figures.
* As of 9:00 pm last night at least 55 miles of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway was still closed to navigation (from Mile Marker 15 to Mile Marker 70.) This is in the area between the Lower Mississippi and Gulfport, Mississippi. The US Coast Guard is surveying the waterway and replacing navigational aids at a rate of about 20 miles per day. At this rate the entire waterway should be open between the Lower Mississippi and all points east by the end of Wednesday. The Port of Gulfport is still closed and the Port of Pascagoula is only allowing vessels to operate in the day, if they have draughts of less than 12 feet. Other ports east of Pascagoula (in AL and FL) are open.
* Port of Mobile is operating during daylight hours only with temporary navigation aids in place. The Mississippi River is now officially open to ships with a draft of 35 feet during daylight hours. The US Army Corps of Engineers is currently dredging the channel so that Shell Oil company’s dock can receive a 40-foot draught crude oil tanker (arriving in a few days), to traverse channel and safely dock and unload. Currently the channel to Shell can only take ships with a draught of 38 feet or less.
Page 3 of the following pdf file lists the status of individual refineries in the affected region:
See page 3 for table
To summerize the table, 10 refineries with over 1.9 million bbls/day combined capacity remain shut down, 4 refineries with nearly 1.25 million bbls/day combined capacity are operating at a reduced capacity (output unspecified), and 15 refineries with a combined capacity of just over 3.2 million bbls/day are at normal production.
Jim
