Not true. There are 9 refineries in the Greater Houston Area.
BP - Texas City, TX
ConocoPhillips - Sweeny, TX
Deer Park - Deer Park, TX
ExxonMobil - Baytown, TX
Houston Refining - Houston, TX
Marathon - Texas City, TX
Pasadena Refining - Pasadena, TX
Valero - Houston, TX
Valero - Texas City, TX
All were taken down by Ike.
There are 4 refineries in the Port Arthur area:
ExxonMobil - -Beaumont, TX
Motiva - Port Arthur, TX
Total Petrochemicals - Port Arthur, TX
Valero (formerly Premcor)- Port Arthur, TX
All were taken down by Ike.
One of the three refineries in Lake Charles, LA (Calcasieu) was taken down by Ike.
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Electricity Delivery & Energy Reliability
Hurricane Ike Situation Report # 6
http://www.oe.netl.doe.gov/docs/2008_SitRep_6_Ike_091608_3PM.pdf
September 16, 2008 (3:00 PM EDT)
Port Arthur is close enough to Houston geographically, in a national sense, to be considered “in the Houston area, is it not? The person on tv that I saw, was not being meticulous with his specifics, as I have heard a fluctuatiion of the number of refineries between 13 and 14. It *was* a second hand report. Not so much exacting, as general. I have since read, that even the ones declared “back online” are in varying stages of production output, many running only at about 50% output....You take what you can get...If they are up and running, even at 50%...that still beats the heck out of not being up and running at all.