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Released August 30, 2023 | SUGAR LAND
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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Hurricane Idalia made landfall near Florida's Big Bend region on Wednesday morning as a Category 3 storm, bringing sustained winds of 110 miles per hour, intense flooding and torrential rainfall.
Click on the image at right for Industrial Info's Disaster Impact Tracker map of the projected path of Hurricane Idalia.
The Big Bend region is where Florida's panhandle meets the peninsula. The storm was moving 18 miles per hour north-northeast, according to the National Hurricane Center. Idalia's center was forecast to move into southern Georgia later today. The storm was forecast to turn toward the northeast, moving near or along the coasts of Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina late today and Thursday, according to the hurricane center.
More than 275,000 customers in Florida and 64,000 customers in Georgia were without power. As in most cases during such events, the majority of these disruptions can be attributed to downed electrical transmission and/or distribution lines.
Industrial Info has not yet identified damage to existing generating stations, but it has learned of several power stations that have been taken offline for preventative measures, with the aim of returning to service no later than Thursday. These include:
Several refined products terminals in Florida have been shut down in advance of the storm.
Kinder Morgan Incorporated (NYSE:KMI) (Houston, Texas) has shut its Tampa Petroleum Products Terminal, a 1.6 million-barrel (BBL) ethanol, biofuel and refined products facility. Meanwhile, Martin Resource Management (Kilgore, Texas) was shutting down its Tampa 675,000-BBL liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) storage terminal, consisting of eight storage tanks and a three-bay truck loading rack dock. Chevron Corporation (NYSE:CVX) (San Ramon, California) was shutting its 530,076-BBL Port Tampa Refined Petroleum Products Terminal, consisting of 12 storage tanks, a four-bay truck loading rack and a barge loading dock. Buckeye Partners (Houston, Texas) was shutting its 439,640-BBL Tampa North Petroleum Products Terminal, consisting of seven storage tanks, a four-bay truck loading rack and a barge loading dock.
Marathon Petroleum Corporation (NYSE:MPC) (Findlay, Ohio) was planning to continue normal operations at its 1.2 million-barrel Tampa refined products terminal, which includes seven tanks and two five-bay truck loading racks. Sunoco (Dallas, Texas) was planning to continue operations at its 2.3 million-barrel Jacksonville Refined Products Terminal, which includes 30 tanks. TransMontaigne Partners LLC (Denver, Colorado) was planning to continue normal operations at its 400,000-BBL refined products terminal in Jacksonville, comprising 17 tanks.
Offshore, Chevron has evacuated all non-essential personnel from its Petronius production platform. Production is continuing at the 60,000-barrel-per-day (BBL/d) and 120 million-standard-cubic-foot-per-day (MMSCFD) platform.
Chevron has also evacuated all non-essential personnel from its Blind Faith production platform. Production is continuing at the 65,000-BBL/d and 55-MMSCFD facility.
Industrial Info also continues to track Pharmaceutical & Biotech plants that have shut down in advance of the storm, including three in Georgia and four in South Carolina. Most facilities will have a skeleton staff during the storm.
IIR's Metal & Minerals Industry researchers are reporting additional outages in Florida and Georgia, but not South Carolina at this time. Arglass Southeast LLC's (Cambium USA Incorporated) glass container plant in Valdosta, Georgia was operating in "safe mode" with a skeleton crew keeping the furnace in hot idle mode until Thursday.
YKK Corporation of America (Atlanta, Georgia) opted to close its aluminum windows and door plant in Dublin, Georgia until Thursday. Nutrien (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) closed its Swift Creek phosphate operations in White Springs, Florida, through Thursday out of caution. Air Products and Chemicals Incorporated (NYSE:APD) (Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania) also decided to play it safe and has closed its heat exchanger production plant in Palmetto, Florida. Commercial Metals Company's (Irving, Texas) steel mini mill in Baldwin, Florida, also has closed at least through Thursday.
Many industrial locations have remained open. United States Gypsum Corporation's (Chicago, Illinois) wallboard plant in Jacksonville told Industrial Info the site experienced a few bands of rain and wind, but that the plant was operating as usual. The Mosaic Company (NYSE:MOS) (Tampa) continued to keep all of its Florida phosphate mines in operation with a reduced staff.
Industrial Info Resources (IIR) is the leading provider of industrial market intelligence. Since 1983, IIR has provided comprehensive research, news and analysis on the industrial process, manufacturing and energy related industries. IIR's Global Market Intelligence (GMI) helps companies identify and pursue trends across multiple markets with access to real, qualified and validated plant and project opportunities. Across the world, IIR is tracking more than 200,000 current and future projects worth $17.8 Trillion (USD).
The Big Bend region is where Florida's panhandle meets the peninsula. The storm was moving 18 miles per hour north-northeast, according to the National Hurricane Center. Idalia's center was forecast to move into southern Georgia later today. The storm was forecast to turn toward the northeast, moving near or along the coasts of Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina late today and Thursday, according to the hurricane center.
More than 275,000 customers in Florida and 64,000 customers in Georgia were without power. As in most cases during such events, the majority of these disruptions can be attributed to downed electrical transmission and/or distribution lines.
Industrial Info has not yet identified damage to existing generating stations, but it has learned of several power stations that have been taken offline for preventative measures, with the aim of returning to service no later than Thursday. These include:
- 31-megawatt (MW) Covanta Pasco County Resource Recovery Plant
- 77-MW Pinellas County Waste-to-Energy facility
- 267-MW Sam O Purdom Power Station
- 47-MW Hillsborough Solid Wast Energy Recovery Plant
Several refined products terminals in Florida have been shut down in advance of the storm.
Kinder Morgan Incorporated (NYSE:KMI) (Houston, Texas) has shut its Tampa Petroleum Products Terminal, a 1.6 million-barrel (BBL) ethanol, biofuel and refined products facility. Meanwhile, Martin Resource Management (Kilgore, Texas) was shutting down its Tampa 675,000-BBL liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) storage terminal, consisting of eight storage tanks and a three-bay truck loading rack dock. Chevron Corporation (NYSE:CVX) (San Ramon, California) was shutting its 530,076-BBL Port Tampa Refined Petroleum Products Terminal, consisting of 12 storage tanks, a four-bay truck loading rack and a barge loading dock. Buckeye Partners (Houston, Texas) was shutting its 439,640-BBL Tampa North Petroleum Products Terminal, consisting of seven storage tanks, a four-bay truck loading rack and a barge loading dock.
Marathon Petroleum Corporation (NYSE:MPC) (Findlay, Ohio) was planning to continue normal operations at its 1.2 million-barrel Tampa refined products terminal, which includes seven tanks and two five-bay truck loading racks. Sunoco (Dallas, Texas) was planning to continue operations at its 2.3 million-barrel Jacksonville Refined Products Terminal, which includes 30 tanks. TransMontaigne Partners LLC (Denver, Colorado) was planning to continue normal operations at its 400,000-BBL refined products terminal in Jacksonville, comprising 17 tanks.
Offshore, Chevron has evacuated all non-essential personnel from its Petronius production platform. Production is continuing at the 60,000-barrel-per-day (BBL/d) and 120 million-standard-cubic-foot-per-day (MMSCFD) platform.
Chevron has also evacuated all non-essential personnel from its Blind Faith production platform. Production is continuing at the 65,000-BBL/d and 55-MMSCFD facility.
Industrial Info also continues to track Pharmaceutical & Biotech plants that have shut down in advance of the storm, including three in Georgia and four in South Carolina. Most facilities will have a skeleton staff during the storm.
IIR's Metal & Minerals Industry researchers are reporting additional outages in Florida and Georgia, but not South Carolina at this time. Arglass Southeast LLC's (Cambium USA Incorporated) glass container plant in Valdosta, Georgia was operating in "safe mode" with a skeleton crew keeping the furnace in hot idle mode until Thursday.
YKK Corporation of America (Atlanta, Georgia) opted to close its aluminum windows and door plant in Dublin, Georgia until Thursday. Nutrien (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) closed its Swift Creek phosphate operations in White Springs, Florida, through Thursday out of caution. Air Products and Chemicals Incorporated (NYSE:APD) (Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania) also decided to play it safe and has closed its heat exchanger production plant in Palmetto, Florida. Commercial Metals Company's (Irving, Texas) steel mini mill in Baldwin, Florida, also has closed at least through Thursday.
Many industrial locations have remained open. United States Gypsum Corporation's (Chicago, Illinois) wallboard plant in Jacksonville told Industrial Info the site experienced a few bands of rain and wind, but that the plant was operating as usual. The Mosaic Company (NYSE:MOS) (Tampa) continued to keep all of its Florida phosphate mines in operation with a reduced staff.
Industrial Info Resources (IIR) is the leading provider of industrial market intelligence. Since 1983, IIR has provided comprehensive research, news and analysis on the industrial process, manufacturing and energy related industries. IIR's Global Market Intelligence (GMI) helps companies identify and pursue trends across multiple markets with access to real, qualified and validated plant and project opportunities. Across the world, IIR is tracking more than 200,000 current and future projects worth $17.8 Trillion (USD).
