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Factbox-US Gulf Coast energy facilities hit by Hurricane Francine

By Reuters

September 13, 2024 at 12:00:01 PM

FILE PHOTO: An LNG tanker is guided by tug boats at the Cheniere Sabine Pass LNG export unit in Cameron Parish, Louisiana, U.S., April 14, 2022. REUTERS/Marcy de Luna/File Photo

FILE PHOTO: An LNG tanker is guided by tug boats at the Cheniere Sabine Pass LNG export unit in Cameron Parish, Louisiana, U.S., April 14, 2022. REUTERS/Marcy de Luna/File Photo

FILE PHOTO: A drone view of the city as Hurricane Francine approaches the U.S. Gulf Coast, in Morgan City, Louisiana, U.S. September 11, 2024.  REUTERS/Marco Bello/File Photo

FILE PHOTO: A drone view of the city as Hurricane Francine approaches the U.S. Gulf Coast, in Morgan City, Louisiana, U.S. September 11, 2024. REUTERS/Marco Bello/File Photo

(Reuters) - U.S. Gulf Coast energy facilities on Friday were restarting operations as companies assessed the damage from Hurricane Francine which tore through offshore oil and gas producing areas and slammed into the Louisiana coast on Wednesday.

Offshore oil and gas producers ramped up operations after halving output. Ports reopened and onshore terminals accepted oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) tankers.

Francine missed Texas and drenched Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama with heavy rains and gusty winds that led to widespread power outages that affected operations.

The U.S. Gulf of Mexico accounts for about 15% of all domestic oil production and 2% of natural gas output, according to federal data, so storm-related disruptions can boost energy prices.

Francine has likely disrupted about 1.5 million barrels of U.S. oil production, which will reduce September production in the Gulf of Mexico by around 50,000 barrels per day, UBS said in a note. Yet by Friday the U.S. Coast Guard said most terminals in Louisiana including the port of News Orleans and the deepwater Louisiana Offshore Oil Port (LOOP) were back in service.

Texas ports including Texas City and Lake Charles that reopened earlier this week following Francine were on Friday servicing tankers, according to vessel monitoring data by LSEG.

OPERATOR FACILITY  CAPACITY  DATE DETAILS

         

Karoon Who Dat wells - Sept. 10 All Who Dat wells shut-in

Energy Ltd and evacuated platform,

currently anticipate that

Who Dat will be shut in for

a week

BP  Schriever, - Sept. 10 Evacuating its

Louisiana   onshore learning and

Sept. 11 maintenance facilities;

Evacuated

personnel from the Oxbow

Solar farm and construction

crews from the Prairie Ronde

solar project site in

Louisiana

ExxonMobil Hoover offshore - Sept. 09 Shut-in output and evacuated

platform     staff

  522,500 Sept. 10  

Baton Rouge, barrel-per-day Cuts production

Louisiana refinery (bpd) to as low as 20% 

Sept. 12 Increasing production

Chevron Gulf of Mexico - Sept. 09 Evacuating

facilitiesAnchor   non-essential staff from

platform, Tahiti   four offshore platforms,

oil platform    shutting in oil and gas

output at two offshore

production platforms

Shell Perdido oil 125,000 barrels Sept. 12 Extends

platform, Whale of oil   production curtailment to

platform, Auger equivalent per   Appomattox, Mars, Vito,

and day (boe/d) for Ursa, and Olympus platforms.

Enchailada/Salsa Perdido oil

assets, platform; Have begun redeploying

Appomattox, Mars, 100,000 boe/d personnel to Perdido, but

Vito, Ursa, and for Whale production stays shut at

Olympus platforms platform asset along with at Auger

and Enchilada/Salsa.

Drilling remains paused at

Whale asset, scheduled to

begin operations later this

year.

Sept. 13 Ramping up production at

Appomattox, Mars, Vito, Ursa

and Olympus platforms

Perdido, Auger, and

Enchilada/Salsa remain shut

Drilling remains paused at

their Whale asset

500,000 barrels Sept. 12 No serious damage at the

Louisiana, Geismar of oil per day manufacturing facilities in

and Norco for Louisiana Louisiana

refinery,

250,000/bpd for

Energy and

Chemicals Park,

Norco Norco and

Sept. 13 Geismar facilities in the

process

of returning to

normal operations

Freeport LNG export plant 2.1 billion Sept. 09 Begun storm preparations at

(LNG) in Texas cubic feet per its Texas plant

day

Cameron LNG export plant - Sept. 10 Amount of natural gas

(LNG) in Louisiana flowing to the export plant

dropped

Enbridge Inc South Marsh Island - Sept. 10 Pulled employees

76,Ship Shoal 207, from several offshore U.S.

332 platforms Gulf of Mexico platforms

Kinder Marine terminal in - Sept. 10 Shut its

Morgan Myrtle Grove, international marine

Louisiana  terminal in Myrtle Grove,

Louisiana

Sept. 12

To be partially operational

at its terminals by Friday

Citgo Lake Charles, 463,000 barrels Sept. 10 Adjusting

Louisiana refinery of oil per day  operations as required

Woodside U.S. offshore, - Sept. 10 -Partially evacuating

Energy Louisiana coastal personnel from its Shenzi

operations oil production facility

-Fully evacuating staff from

its coastal shorebase and

warehouse facilities in

Sept. 11 Louisiana

Shenzi shut-in production

due to an onshore refinery

losing power on Wednesday

Cheniere Sabine Pass LNG 4.7 billion Sept. 10 LNG production at Sabine

Energy  terminal, cubic feet per Pass remains uninterrupted

Louisiana day

Murphy Oil Gulf of Mexico - Sept. 10 Evacuating

Corp assets   non-essential personnel at

Sept. 11 Gulf of Mexico assets

Prior to landfall, Murphy

had evacuated certain

non-essential personnel

Sept. 12 Continues to operate from

majority of its assets and

in the process of assessing

facilities and restoring

evacuated non-essential

personnel

Louisiana   - Sept. 10 U.S. Coast guard orders

Offshore Oil   closure of port

Port    

Sept. 11 Suspended marine operations

Sept. 13 Back in service

Houma port   - Sept. 10 U.S. Coast guard orders

closure of port

Port   - Sept. 11 Suspended

Fourchon operations

PBF Energy  Chalmette, 190,000 barrels Sept. 11 Operating with reduced staff

Louisiana Refinery of oil per day

(Reporting by Rahul Paswan, Seher Dareen and Anmol Choubey in Bengaluru; Editing by Hugh Lawson, Marguerita Choy and David Gregorio)

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