Nearly half of all oil pipelines from the Permian basin, the biggest U.S. oilfield, are expected to be empty by the end of the year, analysts and executives said.
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FILE PHOTO: A Shell logo is seen at a gas station in Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 12, 2018. REUTERS/Marcos Brindicci/File Photo
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell Plc pushed back the restart of its 318,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) joint-venture Deer Park, Texas, refinery to March 13, said sources familiar with plant operations on Monday.
Shell spokesman Curtis Smith declined comment.
Shell had planned to restart the 270,000-bpd DU-2 crude distillation unit (CDU), the largest at the refinery, by early this week, the sources said.
Shell is continuing repairs at the refinery to enable it to restart from the Feb. 15 shutdown because of cold weather, the sources said. Repairs could last until April.
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FILE PHOTO: A view of the Exxon Mobil refinery in Baytown, Texas September 15, 2008. REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Production at the restarted Exxon Mobil Corp 369,024 barrel-per-day (bpd) Beaumont, Texas, refinery is being hampered by reduced coker throughput, said sources familiar with plant operations.
The 45,000-bpd coker has been operating at varying production levels since restarting earlier this week, the sources said.
Exxon spokesman Jeremy Eikenberry declined to discuss the status of individual units at the Beaumont refinery.
“Exxon Mobil continues to make progress restarting operations at its Beaumont refinery,” Eikenberry said.
The coker converts residual crude oil from distillation units into motor fuel feedstocks or petroleum coke, a substitute for coal.
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MEXICO CITY/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil trading firms, including Trafigura, are supplying Mexico with emergency cargoes of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to overcome a power crisis caused by interrupted U.S. natural gas supplies, three sources close to the purchases said.
FILE PHOTO: Trafigura logo is pictured in the company entrance in Geneva, Switzerland, March 11, 2012. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
Mexico’s state-run power company Comision Federal de Electricidad (CFE) last week resorted to LNG imports as natural gas supplies from the southern United States, especially neighboring Texas, were hit by frozen pipelines and rocketing prices caused by a cold snap.