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Released August 30, 2021 | SUGAR LAND
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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Power providers, oil & gas producers, petroleum refineries and chemical processors were assessing the damage caused by Hurricane Ida, which swept into Louisiana on Sunday as a Category 4 storm, with winds as high as 150 miles per hour. Ida has since weakened to a tropical storm and was moving north over southwestern Mississippi on Monday morning.
More than one million people in Louisiana were left without power as a result of the storm, according to news media reports.
Entergy Corporation (NYSE:ETR) (New Orleans, Louisiana), which provides much of Louisiana's electricity, said on Sunday that the storm had knocked out all eight transmission lines that deliver power into the New Orleans area, and those in the hardest-hit areas could see outages for weeks. An official in Jefferson Parish said a transmission tower that provided power for New Orleans and the east bank of the parish had collapsed.
Following Ida's landfall, Colonial Pipeline (Alpharetta, Georgia) said it temporarily shut down lines 1 and 2 of its petroleum products pipeline system, from Houston, Texas, to Greensboro, North Carolina, as a precaution. "Colonial expects operations to resume full service following evaluation of infrastructure and successful execution of the company's startup plan," the company added. U.S. oil & gas companies on Friday cut more than 1.6 million barrels of oil production in advance of the storm, according to Reuters.
Personnel had been evacuated from 288 production platforms, representing 51.43% of the manned platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) said Sunday. The bureau estimated about 95.65% of the oil production, and 93.75% of gas production in the Gulf of Mexico had been shut in.
Industrial Info's research teams are continuously monitoring the impact of the storm on power stations, petroleum refineries, chemical plants and other facilities. See examples below.
Power
More than one million people in Louisiana were left without power as a result of the storm, according to news media reports.
Entergy Corporation (NYSE:ETR) (New Orleans, Louisiana), which provides much of Louisiana's electricity, said on Sunday that the storm had knocked out all eight transmission lines that deliver power into the New Orleans area, and those in the hardest-hit areas could see outages for weeks. An official in Jefferson Parish said a transmission tower that provided power for New Orleans and the east bank of the parish had collapsed.
Following Ida's landfall, Colonial Pipeline (Alpharetta, Georgia) said it temporarily shut down lines 1 and 2 of its petroleum products pipeline system, from Houston, Texas, to Greensboro, North Carolina, as a precaution. "Colonial expects operations to resume full service following evaluation of infrastructure and successful execution of the company's startup plan," the company added. U.S. oil & gas companies on Friday cut more than 1.6 million barrels of oil production in advance of the storm, according to Reuters.
Personnel had been evacuated from 288 production platforms, representing 51.43% of the manned platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) said Sunday. The bureau estimated about 95.65% of the oil production, and 93.75% of gas production in the Gulf of Mexico had been shut in.
Industrial Info's research teams are continuously monitoring the impact of the storm on power stations, petroleum refineries, chemical plants and other facilities. See examples below.
Power
- Entergy's 1,176-megawatt (MW) Waterford Three Nuclear Power Station in Hahnville, Louisiana, was shut down in preparation for the storm. Subscribers to Industrial Info's Global Market Intelligence (GMI) Power Plant Database can click here for a plant profile.
- The 978-MW Unit 01 at Entergy's River Bend Nuclear Power Station was down-powered due to downed transmission lines. Click here for a plant profile.
- In the aftermath of the storm, Phillips 66 (NYSE:PSX) (Houston, Texas) began to increase production rates on Monday at its 242,000-barrel-per-day (BBL/d) Lake Charles Refinery in Westlake, Louisiana. Subscribers to Industrial Info's Global Market Intelligence (GMI) Refining Plant Database can click here for the plant profile.
- Marathon Petroleum Corporation (NYSE:MPC) shut down its 530,000-BBL/d Garyville, Louisiana, refinery on Saturday ahead of the hurricane. Click here for the plant profile.
- PBF Energy Incorporated (NYSE:PBF) (Parsippany, New Jersey) shut its 192,000-BBL/d Chalmette, Louisiana, refinery ahead of the storm. Click here for the plant profile.
- Shell Chemical Company shut down its Norco Chemical East complex in Plaquemine, Louisiana, including the ethylene, butadiene and propylene units, ahead of the storm. Subscribers can click here for the plant profile.
- Also in Plaquemine, Dow Chemical (NYSE:DOW) (Midland, Michigan) shut down its complex, including the aromatics, polyethylene, propylene oxide, propylene glycol and other units. See plant profile.
- Shintech (Houston) shut down its Plaquemine Vinyls Complex, including the 1,100 million-pound-per-year ethylene unit. See plant profile.
