Shell announces closure of refinery in Bakersfield

AP ^ | 11-13-03

[steppenwolffe]

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - Shell Oil Products announced Thursday it will close down a refinery in Bakersfield next year because of the decreasing supply of crude oil in the area, company officials said. The refinery, which has been in Bakersfield for 70 years and employs 215 people, depends on availability of San Joaquin Heavy Crude to make gasoline, gas oil, butane and other products.

[Willie Green]

U.S. Petroleum & Crude Oil Overview
(thousand barrels per day)

	1960	1965	1970	1975	1980	1985	1990	1995	2000
U.S. Crude Oil Production	7,035	7,804	9,637	8,375	8,597	8,971	7,355	6,560	5,834
U.S. Petroleum Imports	1,815	2,468	3,419	6,056	6,909	5,067	8,018	8,835	11,093
Total	8,850	10,272	13,056	14,431	15,506	14,038	15,373	15,395	16,927
Imports as % of Total	20.5	24.0	26.2	42.0	44.6	36.1	52.2	57.4	65.5

[b4its2late]

I guess when the libs don't let you drill onshore or offshore it's time to get the heck out.

[meyer]

Look at the huge move to imports during the Clinton years.

[Willie Green]

Look at the huge move to imports during the Clinton years.

Developing independence from imported OPEC oil has been a bipartisan lie ever since the Arab Oil Embargo.

[WFTR]

I worked the 2001 turnaround in that refinery. I'm sorry to see it go.

WFTR
Bill