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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 04, 2023
Hurricane Laura poses biggest threat to US oil in 15 years

Global Economy

Reuters
25 August, 2020, 10:50 pm
Last modified: 25 August, 2020, 10:50 pm

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Hurricane Laura poses biggest threat to US oil in 15 years

The storm will rapidly gain strength and become a major hurricane with sustained, 115 mile per hour (185 kph) winds when it strikes the coast by early Thursday, according to the National Hurricane Center

Reuters
25 August, 2020, 10:50 pm
Last modified: 25 August, 2020, 10:50 pm
Waves splash during the passage of theTropical Storm Laura in Havana, Cuba, August 24, 2020. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini
Waves splash during the passage of theTropical Storm Laura in Havana, Cuba, August 24, 2020. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini

The US energy industry began preparing for a major hurricane strike by Tuesday, cutting crude production at a rate approaching the level of 2005's Hurricane Katrina and halting oil refining at plants along the Texas/Louisiana coast.

The storm will rapidly gain strength and become a major hurricane with sustained, 115 mile per hour (185 kph) winds when it strikes the coast by early Thursday, according to the National Hurricane Center.

The intensification will bring at least a 10-foot (3-meter) storm surge to the upper Texas coast and could produce a devastating category 4 hurricane, said Chris Kerr, a meteorologist at agriculture, energy and weather data provider DTN.

On Monday, the storm had shut 1.5 million barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil output, 82 percent of Gulf of Mexico's offshore production, near the 90 percent outage that Katrina brought 15 years ago.

Refiners halted facilities that process at least 1.8 million bpd of oil processing, 10 percent of the US total capacity, according to Reuters tallies. Gasoline prices rose Tuesday on the shutdowns and have jumped 10.3 percent since Friday.

"There will be a significant storm surge from Galveston (Texas) to the Sabine River," an area encompassing some of the region's largest refineries, said DTN's Kerr. "There are ideal conditions in central and west Gulf for rapid intensification."

Officials in Port Arthur, an energy city of 54,000 people, and similar-sized Galveston, Texas, each ordered mandatory evacuations as Laura began its march up the central Gulf of Mexico.

The storm will make landfall in an area that accounts for more than 45 percent of total US petroleum refining capacity and 17 percent of oil production, according to the Energy Information Administration.

Cheniere Energy Inc, the largest US exporter of liquefied natural gas, evacuated staff and suspended operations at its Sabine Pass LNG export terminal on the Texas/Louisiana border. 

Motiva Enterprises,Total SA and Valero Energy began cutting operations at their Port Arthur, Texas, refineries, according to people familiar with the matter. The three combined process more than 900,000 bpd of oil.

Total and Motiva confirmed the shutdowns of their refineries. Valero declined to comment.

Exxon Mobil Corp began shutting production at its large Beaumont, Texas, refinery and reduced output at its Baytown, Texas, plant ahead of a possible shutdown, people familiar with the matter said. 

An Exxon spokesman did not have immediate comment. If its Baytown plant fully halts processing, total shutdowns would hit more than 2.3 million bpd.

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