U.S. Gulf Oil Producers, Refiners Shut as Ida Comes Ashore

Ida is bearing down on New Orleans as major hurricane Sunday Almost 12% of U.S. refining capacity affected by storm

August 29, 2021 Stu Turley Commodities, Downstream, Offshore, US Energy News

Oil and natural gas explorers in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico and Louisiana refineries have shut production as Hurricane Ida crashes ashore.

Based on the latest forecast by the National Hurricane Center, Ida will make landfall near New Orleans Sunday afternoon. About 1.74 million barrels a day, or 95.7% of crude production, and 93.8% of gas output was shut-in as of Sunday, according to the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement. About 2.11 million barrels a day of refining capacity — approximately 12% of the U.S. total — was being shut or brought to reduced rates at plants along the Mississippi River.

Here is a list of major oil and gas production sites, refineries, pipelines and ports being shut and their capacity in barrels per day, or barrels of oil equivalent a day.

PLATFORMS
BP Plc	Atlantis, 200,000 b/d Mad Dog, 100,000 b/d Na Kika, 130,000 b/d Thunder Horse, 250,000 b/d
Royal Dutch Shell Plc	Turritella (including Stones field) 50,000 boe/d (at peak), Stones working to resume partial production Mars, 60,000 boe/d Olympus, 100,000 boe/d Appomattox, 175,000 boe/d Ursa, 150,000 boe/d Auger, 130,000 boe/d Enchilada/Salsa, capacity not specified
Equinor SA	Titan, 2,000 boe/d (producing rate in the second quarter)
BHP Group	Shenzi, 100,000 b/d and 50 mmcf/d gas
Murphy Oil Corp.	Shutting in production, up to 4,100 boe/d
Chevron Corp.	Shutting all oil and natural gas platforms; volume not specified Average net daily output in 2018 was 186,000 barrels of crude, 105 million cubic feet of natural gas and 13,000 barrels of NGLs: website
Exxon Mobil Corp.	Began evacuating personnel from its Hoover platform; minimal impact on production
Ports
LOOP	Pauses deliveries until after storm
New Orleans	Coast Guard set condition Zulu
Refineries
Valero	Shut 215k b/d St. Charles, 125k b/d Meraux
PBF Energy	Reducing rates at 190k b/d Chalmette
Shell	Shutting 230k b/d Norco
Exxon Mobil	Baton Rouge (520k b/d) running at 50% capacity
Phillips 66	Shut 255k b/d Alliance
Marathon	Shut production at 578k b/d Garyville
Pipelines
Colonial	Shuts lines 1 & 2, main gasoline and distillate pipes running from Houston to Greensboro NC. Colonial system can distribute up to 2.5m b/d of gasoline, diesel, jet fuel across southeast and Mid-Atlantic

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