Montiva Oil Refinery closed

[bluedragon]

Texas .....The US biggest oil refinery has closed due to the weather. If this done following protocol and as a precaution ....a mere bump in production for about a month ......however .......if one of the power sources shut down first .....630,000 barrels a day will not be refined for several months. Here's how it works ....An oil refinery is fed by two power sources ....Two power plants have transmission lines running to the refinery. One powers a half and the other powers a half. If one power source goes down, the entire plant is shut down ....The half still powered, does their clean up while the half not powered does clean up before the entire plant can be activated again. It is possible to switch the power from two sources to one for a short term .....My feeling is that this was due to weather.

What is the impact? In the past two years five refineries have been shut down ......most often due to regulations making it impossible to make money refining oil. This plant recently went into operation...The newest US based refinery ....This shut down will cause a shortage of gasoline making gas prices spike .....Get ready, here it comes ......so much for the price drops ...

 

[Wrangler]

regulations making it impossible to make money refining oil.

Capitalism has failed, they'll say. Use this as an excuse to 'go Green' they will.

 

[bluedragon]

The problem was with the fire suppresion system. It caught fire .....So much for fire suppression. They are working to resolve the engineering problems and a reliable band aide ...

 

[stunnedbygrace]

Wait…did I understand you correctly? The “fire suppression system” caught on fire?

The whole world is a snowball rolling down a hill.

Whats that verse about…a man running from a lion only to then run into a bear then go home and get bit by a snake? Did I get that right?

 

[bluedragon]

Wait…did I understand you correctly? The “fire suppression system” caught on fire?

The whole world is a snowball rolling down a hill.

Whats that verse about…a man running from a lion only to then run into a bear then go home and get bit by a snake? Did I get that right?

This is a highly engineered suppression system. From what I've read, it involved the control boxes.....Simply put, a panel box fire that disabled the supression system. Newly engineered plant ....sometimes, stupid things happen ...