Posted on 04/28/2006 11:08:37 AM PDT by IrishMike
Anglo-Dutch oil group Royal Dutch Shell has announced plans to make its jointly owned Motiva refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, the biggest in the United States.
Shell founded the Motiva refiniery in 1998 with Saudi Refining and is considering increasing the output at the facility by 325,000 barrels per day.
"The project would make the Port Arthur Refinery the largest in the country," Shell said in a statement on Friday.
Output would rise to 610,000 barrels per day, higher than the 557,000 barrels per day produced by the ExxonMobil facility in Baytown, Texas, the current biggest in the country.
"Pending necessary regulatory approvals, Motiva would expect to initiate final engineering later in 2006 and begin construction in 2007," said Shell, while underlining that a final decision to expand the facility had not been taken.
"The new capacity would be projected to come online in 2010."
A shortage of refining capacity worldwide has been identified as one of the reasons behind the recent surge in crude oil prices. Oil companies have been accused of failing to invest adequately in new facilities.
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It's about time somebody got the ball rolling on this.
Slap those enviro-nazi's right upside the head and build this thing!!!!!!! We need it!!!!! Next stop, ANWR.....
It's about GD time...sheesh!
Build three of the damn things.
It's a good start.
Every one of these oil companies should use this opportunity to build refineries and storage facilities.
Build one next door to Kerry and Kennedy, just for S's and G's
Excellent news!
Thanks for posting it, Mike!
Hopefully, this is just a start!
Shell's price are the highest of all stations in my area.
..but,but,but...doesn't this mean the Saudi's own a refinery in the US? How come the politico's aren't acting like a bunch of monkeys in a banana famine over this...??
Doogle
I'll believe it when I see it, probably take that long to get clearance from the EPA because they found some rare salamander hanging around.
If this refinery were anywhere but Texas, those four words would be a stake to the heart.
The watermelon jihadist enviros have nothing to do with it.
Yes, screw them. Them punks have worn out there welcome.
It's good news, for certain, but it's a refinery expansion, not a new refinery.
Is it a good idea to have them all in the same place though? Why can't we have refineries in Wyoming or someplace where there is very little chance of a major disruption? I know there were refineries there at one time.
This isn't a new refinery. It is an expansion of an existing refinery. A lot less regulatory hurdles to overcome. The environmentalists block on new refineries is still effective.
Looks like they are fixin to open a new cat cracker.
Here comes the lawsuits. There is a gas line that was proposed to run from New Mexico to Arizona and the lawsuits started to fly and, the pipeline still has not been built.
The lawsutes started in the 1980's.
Indeed. But it won't be running at full capacity for many years.
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