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Western Refining Idles Bloomfield Plant (NM)
The Albuquerque Journal ^ | November 9, 2009 | James Monteleone

Posted on 11/10/2009 8:25:42 AM PST by CedarDave

Western Refining is shuttering its Bloomfield refinery and consolidating the operations of its two northwestern New Mexico plants at its Gallup refinery in a move the company says will save $25 million per year.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; US: New Mexico
KEYWORDS: energy; oil; refining
The original source article is from Gannett so only a title and link can be provided:

Western Refining Idles Bloomfield Plant

The layoff will affect over 100 workers and is mainly due to a shortage in affordable crude supplies in the region says the article.

In turn that shortage is due to both the current low price of crude but more importantly environmental restrictions on new production including exploratory drilling on Forest Service, BLM and Indian lands.

1 posted on 11/10/2009 8:25:43 AM PST by CedarDave
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To: LegendHasIt; Rogle; leapfrog0202; Santa Fe_Conservative; DesertDreamer; OneWingedShark; ...

NM list PING!


2 posted on 11/10/2009 8:28:00 AM PST by CedarDave (FOX news:"Fair and balanced (no matter what the White House says) . We report because others won't.")
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To: CedarDave

Sunoco shuts down Eagle Point in Westville, NJ

Valero shuts down the Aruba Refinery.

This one won’t be the last.


3 posted on 11/10/2009 8:42:37 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: CedarDave

I’m not sure if this is good or bad news.

mom and pop oil refineries, tend to not
be able to squeeze the last drop
of fuel from the crude,

oth,

could be Exxon’s new variant
on refinery fires.


4 posted on 11/10/2009 8:44:11 AM PST by element92
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To: CedarDave

That will definitly hurt the 4 corners area.

I remember visiting there in 1985. From Cuba to Bloomfield (Pray for me! I drive hiway 44!) we saw large caravans of people leaving the 4 corners area as everything was being shut down then.

This seems to be a replay of that time.


5 posted on 11/10/2009 8:48:37 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (The sword does not kill. It is a tool in the killer's hand.---Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
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To: element92
Bloomfield's residual oil is trucked to their Ciniza (Gallup) refinery where both are loaded out via tank car. This is some of the best N6 oil available in the USA.
6 posted on 11/10/2009 8:51:33 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: CedarDave

Companies are also shutting down selected units in other refineries.

Valero is/has shut down the coker and gasifier complex at the Delaware City refinery. Also the coker and a fluid catalytic cracking unit at the Corpus Christi refinery.

http://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-20090908-905575.html


7 posted on 11/10/2009 9:59:02 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: thackney

Talked to a refinery E&S manager this morning. They are all feeling a profit squeeze and very worried about Obama’s new greenhouse requirements on top of NOX, SOX, low sulfur, etc. requirements.

Western is the second biggest in NM and west Texas. They would like to keep the Bloomfield refinery going, but without the volume of crude and all the environmental restrictions, it isn’t profitable.


8 posted on 11/10/2009 10:16:57 AM PST by CedarDave (FOX news:"Fair and balanced (no matter what the White House says) . We report because others won't.")
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To: CedarDave

Holly Refining now owns both the Sun and Sinclair refineries (about two miles apart) in Tulsa. Plans are to hook them together and upgrade only one to save money.


9 posted on 11/10/2009 11:30:27 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: CedarDave

When I lived there all the wells were gas only. Tanks there were for the collection of “drip gas”. I worked making glychol reboilers for Amrican Tank and Steel and Production Equipment Corp.

Olman Heath and Western Manufacturing were just down the road.

Last month when I was there I noticed many of the gas wells now had crude oil pumps on them.


10 posted on 11/10/2009 11:56:22 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (The sword does not kill. It is a tool in the killer's hand.---Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
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