The nation’s two largest crude oil distillation units were shuttered on Sunday after it was reported that the Colonial Pipeline had suffered an “outage.”
People familiar with the matter told Reutersthat Motiva Enterprises LLC’s 607,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Port Arthur, Texas, refinery shut down its 195,000-bpd VPS-4 CDU and 80,000-bpd VPS-2 CDU along with its 49,000-bpd reformer and 19,200-bpd lube oil hydrocracker.This temporary idling of the two CDUs reduces production at Motiva’s refinery by 45 percent. The company declined to discuss any further the status of individual units at the Port Arthur refinery.
There is a third CDU at the Motiva refinery that is still in operation. It is the largest of the three with a 325,000-bpd reformer and VPS-5 CDU. The purpose of CDUs, by the way, is to break down crude oil into the feedstocks for all other units at the refinery.
The purpose of reformers is to refine crude oil byproducts into octane-boosting components that are added back into the gasoline.
To make matters worse, the Interstate 40 bridge connecting Arkansas to Tennessee was shuttered indefinitely after a consulting firm claims to have observed a “significant feature” in one of the pillars that supports the giant structure.
Repairs could take months, officials say, which throws another wrench into the gas shortage problem as I-40 is a major corridor and alternate route for trucks to drive gas to southern states.
For the time being, all traffic over the bridge is being detoured, and shipping traffic along some portions of the Mississippi River has been halted.
3 comments:
Actually no real cyber attack on colonial pipeline it was delibret shutdown of pipeline. Alex Jones reporting most followed journalism.
So many are like frogs in boiling water. This will become the norm.
Perhaps a new way for the power hungry to attempt control the masses in a similar way we are all becoming accustomed to unfortunately.
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