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Natural Gas, Production
Phillips 66's Freeport LPG Terminal Halts Operations Due to Harvey
Phillips 66 has ceased operations at its 36,000-barrel-per-hour, 4.4-million-barrel-per-month Freeport, Texas, liquid petroleum gas (LPG) export terminal due to Tropical Storm Harvey. The NGL supplies come from Phillips 66 Partners' Sweeny fractionator and Clemens storage facility. The storage terminal is connected by pipeline to Mont Belvieu. All connected upstream assets have also been impacted by Harvey. As of 1 pm CST Tuesday, the center of the storm was located about 80 miles south-southwest of Port Arthur, Texas, and was moving slowly to the northeast, with relentless rain and flooding spreading into Louisiana (National Hurricane Center). Harvey is expected to produce additional rainfall accumulations of 6 to 12 inches through Friday over parts of the upper Texas coast into southwestern Louisiana. Elsewhere, Harvey is expected to produce additional rainfall amounts of 5 to 10 inches across portions of southern Louisiana into coastal Mississippi and Alabama. Rainfall associated with Harvey will spread north by mid to late week, with rainfall amounts of 4 to 8 inches spreading into portions of Arkansas and the Tennessee Valley. A preliminary report from one Texas rain gauge has broken the Texas tropical cyclone rainfall record at 49.32 inches. (Plant: 3108641)
Enterprise Products Shuts Down Sea Robin Gas Plant Due to Lack of Shipments
Enterprise Products Partners' dual train, 1.2-billion-cubic-foot-per-day Sea Robin Gas Plant in Louisiana has been shut down due to a drop in offshore receipts related to Hurricane Harvey. (Plant: 1062870)
Crews Restarting Kinder Morgan's Houston Natural Gas Plant
Crews were in the process of restarting Kinder Morgan's three-train, 1.1 billion-cubic-foot-per-day and 22,000-barrel-per-day fractionator at its natural gas processing plant in Houston. The facility was shut down over the weekend due to then-Hurricane Harvey. (Plant: 1510119)
Harvey Has Little Impact on Cheniere's Corpus Christi LNG Project
Cheniere Energy's liquefied natural gas (LNG) liquefaction project in Corpus Christi, Texas, experienced minimal damage during Hurricane Harvey. It is not expected that the damage will affect the construction timeline significantly. Industrial Info is tracking $20 billion in potential project activity at the Corpus Christi site. Trains 1 and 2 at Corpus Christi were nearly 70% complete at the end of June. Train 1 would be completed in second-quarter 2018, while Train 2 would see completion in first-quarter 2019. (Plant: 3046430)
Targa Resources Shuts Down Cedar Bayou NGL Plant Due to Flooding
Targa Resources Partners has shut down its 5-train, 650,000-barrel-per-day (BBL/d) Cedar Bayou Natural Gas Liquids (NGL) Fractionation plant in Texas due to extreme flooding caused by Tropical Storm Harvey. (Plant: 1012858)
Enterprise Products Shuts Down South Plant at Mont Belvieu Complex
Enterprise Products Partners has shut down its South Plant at its Mont Belvieu complex due to flooding and power outages. This includes fractionation trains I -III, Propylene splitter I plus Isomerization and DIB units. The remaining natural gas liquids (NGL) fractionation trains and propylene splitters are running at reduced rates. In South Texas, two of Enterprise's eight natural gas processing plants, including its largest plant Yoakum, are in service. The remaining six natural gas processing plants and the Shoup NGL fractionation facility are not in operation due to the effects of the storm including loss of power, loss of third party services, minor damage and/or the level of natural gas production. In general, the partnership's natural gas, NGL and crude oil pipelines serving South Texas and the Eagle Ford Shale are in commercial service. With respect to crude oil pipeline infrastructure in the Houston area, the Seaway pipeline from its origin in Cushing, Oklahoma to most delivery points are in service. Deliveries from Seaway and Enterprise's crude oil distribution system to certain delivery points may be on allocation from time to time or not in service subject to disruptions of electrical power to pump stations and/or restrictions at receipt points. Enterprise's marine terminals are not currently in service due to the Houston Ship Channel and the Port of Beaumont being closed to ship traffic. Seaway's marine terminals at Texas City and Freeport are also not in service due to these respective ports being closed to ship traffic. (Plant: 1517384)
More than 18% of Gulf of Mexico Oil Production, 19% of Natural Gas Production, Shut In Due to Harvey
About 18.26% of the current oil production of 1,750,000 barrels of oil per day in the Gulf of Mexico has been shut in as of 11:30 am CST Tuesday due to Tropical Storm Harvey (Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement). This equates to 319,523 barrels of oil per day. It is also estimated that about 19.1% of the natural gas production of 3,220 million cubic feet per day, or 615.09 million cubic feet per day in the Gulf of Mexico, has been shut in. Personnel have been evacuated from a total of 102 production platforms, 13.84 percent of the 737 manned platforms in the Gulf of Mexico.
Refining
Motiva Reduces Rates at Port Arthur Refinery
Motiva Enterprises was running its 600,000-barrel-per-day Port Arthur Refinery in Texas at 60% capacity due to Tropical Storm Harvey. As of 1 pm CST Tuesday, the center of the storm was located about 80 miles south-southwest of Port Arthur, Texas, and was moving slowly to the northeast, with relentless rain and flooding spreading into Louisiana (National Hurricane Center). (Plant: 1012671)
Marathon Reduces Rates at Galveston Bay Refinery
Marathon Petroleum Corporation has reduced to the operating rates at its 450,000-barrel-per-day Galveston Bay Refinery in Texas due to high water levels caused by Tropical Storm Harvey. As of 1 pm CST Tuesday, the center of the storm was located about 80 miles south-southwest of Port Arthur, Texas, and was moving slowly to the northeast, with relentless rain and flooding spreading into Louisiana (National Hurricane Center). Harvey is expected to produce additional rainfall accumulations of 6 to 12 inches through Friday over parts of the upper Texas coast into southwestern Louisiana. (Plant: 1001047)
ExxonMobil Reduces Rates at Beaumont Refinery
ExxonMobil began Monday to reduce rates at its 350,000-barrel-per-day (BBL/d) Beaumont, Texas, Refinery due to weather conditions after Hurricane Harvey. The company is considering shutting the entire refinery, starting with the 240,000-BBL/d Crude B and the 45,000-BBL/d Delayed Coker units. (Plant: 1012964)
Phillips 66 Shuts Down Sweeny Refinery in Texas Due to Harvey
Phillips 66, on August 27, shut down its 259,000-barrel-per-day Sweeny Refinery in Texas, due to then-Hurricane Harvey. As of Tuesday, 11 refineries with a combined capacity of nearly 2.2 million barrels per day were offline in Texas as a result of the storm. (Plant: 1012987)
Phillips 66 Westlake Refinery Remains Operational in Louisiana
Phillips 66's 242,000-barrel-per-day Westlake, Louisiana, Lake Charles refinery remains operational. As of Tuesday, 11 refineries with a combined capacity of nearly 2.2 million barrels per day were offline in Texas as a result of the storm. (Plant: 1000068)
Chemical Processing
LyondellBasell Takes La Porte Ethylene Unit Offline as Precaution
LyondellBasell has taken the 2.6 billion-pound-per-year Ethylene (QE1) unit offline at its La, Porte, Texas, complex as a precaution to rising flood waters. About 77% of the ethylene capacity in the market region has been shut down as a result of Tropical Storm Harvey. (Outage: 384775) (Plant: 1017565)
Power
Harvey Causes Problems for Some Power Plants
Tropical Storm Harvey was causing issues with some Texas power plants. At the WA Parish Power Station in Thompsons, wet coal led to Units 5-8 being derated on Monday. Also in Thompsons, the Brazos Valley Energy Center, which is owned by Calpine, is operating but is at risk of being forced offline due to high water. In Wharton, Texas the Colorado Bend Energy Center is operating normally, but with high water concerns, they are at risk of being forced offline as well. (Plants: 1068126, 1013212)
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Phillips 66's Freeport LPG Terminal Halts Operations Due to Harvey
Phillips 66 has ceased operations at its 36,000-barrel-per-hour, 4.4-million-barrel-per-month Freeport, Texas, liquid petroleum gas (LPG) export terminal due to Tropical Storm Harvey. The NGL supplies come from Phillips 66 Partners' Sweeny fractionator and Clemens storage facility. The storage terminal is connected by pipeline to Mont Belvieu. All connected upstream assets have also been impacted by Harvey. As of 1 pm CST Tuesday, the center of the storm was located about 80 miles south-southwest of Port Arthur, Texas, and was moving slowly to the northeast, with relentless rain and flooding spreading into Louisiana (National Hurricane Center). Harvey is expected to produce additional rainfall accumulations of 6 to 12 inches through Friday over parts of the upper Texas coast into southwestern Louisiana. Elsewhere, Harvey is expected to produce additional rainfall amounts of 5 to 10 inches across portions of southern Louisiana into coastal Mississippi and Alabama. Rainfall associated with Harvey will spread north by mid to late week, with rainfall amounts of 4 to 8 inches spreading into portions of Arkansas and the Tennessee Valley. A preliminary report from one Texas rain gauge has broken the Texas tropical cyclone rainfall record at 49.32 inches. (Plant: 3108641)
Enterprise Products Shuts Down Sea Robin Gas Plant Due to Lack of Shipments
Enterprise Products Partners' dual train, 1.2-billion-cubic-foot-per-day Sea Robin Gas Plant in Louisiana has been shut down due to a drop in offshore receipts related to Hurricane Harvey. (Plant: 1062870)
Crews Restarting Kinder Morgan's Houston Natural Gas Plant
Crews were in the process of restarting Kinder Morgan's three-train, 1.1 billion-cubic-foot-per-day and 22,000-barrel-per-day fractionator at its natural gas processing plant in Houston. The facility was shut down over the weekend due to then-Hurricane Harvey. (Plant: 1510119)
Harvey Has Little Impact on Cheniere's Corpus Christi LNG Project
Cheniere Energy's liquefied natural gas (LNG) liquefaction project in Corpus Christi, Texas, experienced minimal damage during Hurricane Harvey. It is not expected that the damage will affect the construction timeline significantly. Industrial Info is tracking $20 billion in potential project activity at the Corpus Christi site. Trains 1 and 2 at Corpus Christi were nearly 70% complete at the end of June. Train 1 would be completed in second-quarter 2018, while Train 2 would see completion in first-quarter 2019. (Plant: 3046430)
Targa Resources Shuts Down Cedar Bayou NGL Plant Due to Flooding
Targa Resources Partners has shut down its 5-train, 650,000-barrel-per-day (BBL/d) Cedar Bayou Natural Gas Liquids (NGL) Fractionation plant in Texas due to extreme flooding caused by Tropical Storm Harvey. (Plant: 1012858)
Enterprise Products Shuts Down South Plant at Mont Belvieu Complex
Enterprise Products Partners has shut down its South Plant at its Mont Belvieu complex due to flooding and power outages. This includes fractionation trains I -III, Propylene splitter I plus Isomerization and DIB units. The remaining natural gas liquids (NGL) fractionation trains and propylene splitters are running at reduced rates. In South Texas, two of Enterprise's eight natural gas processing plants, including its largest plant Yoakum, are in service. The remaining six natural gas processing plants and the Shoup NGL fractionation facility are not in operation due to the effects of the storm including loss of power, loss of third party services, minor damage and/or the level of natural gas production. In general, the partnership's natural gas, NGL and crude oil pipelines serving South Texas and the Eagle Ford Shale are in commercial service. With respect to crude oil pipeline infrastructure in the Houston area, the Seaway pipeline from its origin in Cushing, Oklahoma to most delivery points are in service. Deliveries from Seaway and Enterprise's crude oil distribution system to certain delivery points may be on allocation from time to time or not in service subject to disruptions of electrical power to pump stations and/or restrictions at receipt points. Enterprise's marine terminals are not currently in service due to the Houston Ship Channel and the Port of Beaumont being closed to ship traffic. Seaway's marine terminals at Texas City and Freeport are also not in service due to these respective ports being closed to ship traffic. (Plant: 1517384)
More than 18% of Gulf of Mexico Oil Production, 19% of Natural Gas Production, Shut In Due to Harvey
About 18.26% of the current oil production of 1,750,000 barrels of oil per day in the Gulf of Mexico has been shut in as of 11:30 am CST Tuesday due to Tropical Storm Harvey (Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement). This equates to 319,523 barrels of oil per day. It is also estimated that about 19.1% of the natural gas production of 3,220 million cubic feet per day, or 615.09 million cubic feet per day in the Gulf of Mexico, has been shut in. Personnel have been evacuated from a total of 102 production platforms, 13.84 percent of the 737 manned platforms in the Gulf of Mexico.
Refining
Motiva Reduces Rates at Port Arthur Refinery
Motiva Enterprises was running its 600,000-barrel-per-day Port Arthur Refinery in Texas at 60% capacity due to Tropical Storm Harvey. As of 1 pm CST Tuesday, the center of the storm was located about 80 miles south-southwest of Port Arthur, Texas, and was moving slowly to the northeast, with relentless rain and flooding spreading into Louisiana (National Hurricane Center). (Plant: 1012671)
Marathon Reduces Rates at Galveston Bay Refinery
Marathon Petroleum Corporation has reduced to the operating rates at its 450,000-barrel-per-day Galveston Bay Refinery in Texas due to high water levels caused by Tropical Storm Harvey. As of 1 pm CST Tuesday, the center of the storm was located about 80 miles south-southwest of Port Arthur, Texas, and was moving slowly to the northeast, with relentless rain and flooding spreading into Louisiana (National Hurricane Center). Harvey is expected to produce additional rainfall accumulations of 6 to 12 inches through Friday over parts of the upper Texas coast into southwestern Louisiana. (Plant: 1001047)
ExxonMobil Reduces Rates at Beaumont Refinery
ExxonMobil began Monday to reduce rates at its 350,000-barrel-per-day (BBL/d) Beaumont, Texas, Refinery due to weather conditions after Hurricane Harvey. The company is considering shutting the entire refinery, starting with the 240,000-BBL/d Crude B and the 45,000-BBL/d Delayed Coker units. (Plant: 1012964)
Phillips 66 Shuts Down Sweeny Refinery in Texas Due to Harvey
Phillips 66, on August 27, shut down its 259,000-barrel-per-day Sweeny Refinery in Texas, due to then-Hurricane Harvey. As of Tuesday, 11 refineries with a combined capacity of nearly 2.2 million barrels per day were offline in Texas as a result of the storm. (Plant: 1012987)
Phillips 66 Westlake Refinery Remains Operational in Louisiana
Phillips 66's 242,000-barrel-per-day Westlake, Louisiana, Lake Charles refinery remains operational. As of Tuesday, 11 refineries with a combined capacity of nearly 2.2 million barrels per day were offline in Texas as a result of the storm. (Plant: 1000068)
Chemical Processing
LyondellBasell Takes La Porte Ethylene Unit Offline as Precaution
LyondellBasell has taken the 2.6 billion-pound-per-year Ethylene (QE1) unit offline at its La, Porte, Texas, complex as a precaution to rising flood waters. About 77% of the ethylene capacity in the market region has been shut down as a result of Tropical Storm Harvey. (Outage: 384775) (Plant: 1017565)
Power
Harvey Causes Problems for Some Power Plants
Tropical Storm Harvey was causing issues with some Texas power plants. At the WA Parish Power Station in Thompsons, wet coal led to Units 5-8 being derated on Monday. Also in Thompsons, the Brazos Valley Energy Center, which is owned by Calpine, is operating but is at risk of being forced offline due to high water. In Wharton, Texas the Colorado Bend Energy Center is operating normally, but with high water concerns, they are at risk of being forced offline as well. (Plants: 1068126, 1013212)
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