Posted on 03/08/2022 5:12:47 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Dexter, KS…. I did some work for several small legacy refineries in your area dating from the early 1900s. All these were small, something like 20k barrels per day.
First was the Augusta refinery that was originally Standard Oil then Mobil after the breakup. IIRC, Williams was the owner at the time and had to take it as a part of a package deal with pipelines they wanted. Most of the refinery was already demoed and one tiny unit remained that was stripping lights out of naphtha or something. I was brought in to look at using some existing infrastructure for process wastewater handling. It was impossible, either the existing was too deteriorated or had been demoed already.
The Derby refinery in Wichita was the next one. Refinery was mostly demoed but again a small unit still operated stripping lights out of naphtha I think it was. Most of the tanks remained and the facility was mainly just a tank farm for fuels. I worked on design and costs for storm water and process water handling stuff. It wouldn't surprise me if this site is still a tank farm. As a brown field, it's not really compatible for much of anything else.
Last was the old Texaco refinery in El Dorado…. This was all a paper chase, never set foot in the place. I did some preliminary design and cost estimates for upgrading the process wastewater treatment system. A year later, I was brought back in to review another engineering company's more extensive work that looked at the whole environmental infrastructure. Between the process units and the environmental infrastructure modernization, the total investment was several hundred million $$$ with the environmental piece being a very healthy chunk of this. The decision was made to permanently shut the refinery and go into closure steps, it was cheaper.
So…. This kind of activity was typical of what marked the fate of all the small oil refineries that sprouted like mushrooms in the USA's original oil fields.
The Democrats want to make electricity prohibitively expensive and the grid unreliable—after folks get hooked on electric vehicles.
This is similar to their strategy on the vaccines—con the suckers and then slowly acknowledge the real long term side effects.
Friend of mine told me they went thru too many expensive bit's...and ran out of money.
Interesting info, my FRiend.
Very interesting.
The movie “Giant” was a great tale about the early years of the oil industry.
Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean starred.
Many a fortune was won and lost in those wild-catting days.
Another old oil patch movie is Tulsa, made in 1949. Very realistic scripting of the 1920s Oklahoma oil patch. For many years, it was a reasonably accurate saying that the old oil money was in Tulsa and the new money in Houston.
In the Tulsa movie, one of my uncles had 5 seconds of fame as an extra in the oil field fire scene running for his life. Lol…. Tom was going to college on the GI Bill at the time. WWII vet in the 45th Division. Sicily, Salerno, Anzio, North Italy, South France, Germany.
Lot of stuff happened around here...then.
Just filmed a movie here...a few months ago...Filmed some of it...across the street from my office.
I’ll have to look that one up.
I have great-grands who live near Tulsa.
They have Osage blood, along with Irish, Scotch, German, and Mexican.
Time for them to pull the Boris and Natasha scenes from Bullwinkle cartoons.
Will they ban the Royal Moscow Ballet, and the Bolshoi?
They’ve already cancelled Anna Netrobko, one of the world’s best sopranos.
Big Oil was AWOL in 2020 campaign. They are free to enjoy themselves some Brandon now. No sympathy here.
Yes. My son bought one recently and saved a bundle by installing it himself. He is an engineer.
EV’s are not for poor people.Personally, I would rather go back to a horse and buggy.
At least I would have free manure for the garden.
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