(Reuters) – U.S. Gulf Coast energy facilities on Friday were restarting operations as companies assessed the damage from Hurricane Francine which tore through offshore oil and gas producing areas and slammed into the Louisiana coast on Wednesday.
Offshore oil and gas producers ramped up operations after halving output. Ports reopened and onshore terminals accepted oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) tankers.
Francine missed Texas and drenched Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama with heavy rains and gusty winds that led to widespread power outages that affected operations.
The U.S. Gulf of Mexico accounts for about 15% of all domestic oil production and 2% of natural gas output, according to federal data, so storm-related disruptions can boost energy prices.
Francine has likely disrupted about 1.5 million barrels of U.S. oil production, which will reduce September production in the Gulf of Mexico by around 50,000 barrels per day, UBS said in a note. Yet by Friday the U.S. Coast Guard said most terminals in Louisiana including the port of News Orleans and the deepwater Louisiana Offshore Oil Port (LOOP) were back in service.
Texas ports including Texas City and Lake Charles that reopened earlier this week following Francine were on Friday servicing tankers, according to vessel monitoring data by LSEG.
OPERATOR FACILITY CAPACITY DATE DETAILS
Karoon Who Dat wells – Sept. 10 All Who Dat wells shut-in
Energy Ltd and evacuated platform,
currently anticipate that
Who Dat will be shut in for
a week
BP Schriever, – Sept. 10 Evacuating its
Louisiana onshore learning and
Sept. 11 maintenance facilities;
Evacuated
personnel from the Oxbow
Solar farm and construction
crews from the Prairie Ronde
solar project site in
Louisiana
ExxonMobil Hoover offshore – Sept. 09 Shut-in output and evacuated
platform staff
522,500 Sept. 10
Baton Rouge, barrel-per-day Cuts production
Louisiana refinery (bpd) to as low as 20%
Sept. 12 Increasing production
Chevron Gulf of Mexico – Sept. 09 Evacuating
facilitiesAnchor non-essential staff from
platform, Tahiti four offshore platforms,
oil platform shutting in oil and gas
output at two offshore
production platforms
Shell Perdido oil 125,000 barrels Sept. 12 Extends
platform, Whale of oil production curtailment to
platform, Auger equivalent per Appomattox, Mars, Vito,
and day (boe/d) for Ursa, and Olympus platforms.
Enchailada/Salsa Perdido oil
assets, platform; Have begun redeploying
Appomattox, Mars, 100,000 boe/d personnel to Perdido, but
Vito, Ursa, and for Whale production stays shut at
Olympus platforms platform asset along with at Auger
and Enchilada/Salsa.
Drilling remains paused at
Whale asset, scheduled to
begin operations later this
year.
Sept. 13 Ramping up production at
Appomattox, Mars, Vito, Ursa
and Olympus platforms
Perdido, Auger, and
Enchilada/Salsa remain shut
Drilling remains paused at
their Whale asset
500,000 barrels Sept. 12 No serious damage at the
Louisiana, Geismar of oil per day manufacturing facilities in
and Norco for Louisiana Louisiana
refinery,
250,000/bpd for
Energy and
Chemicals Park,
Norco Norco and
Sept. 13 Geismar facilities in the
process
of returning to
normal operations
Freeport LNG export plant 2.1 billion Sept. 09 Begun storm preparations at
(LNG) in Texas cubic feet per its Texas plant
day
Cameron LNG export plant – Sept. 10 Amount of natural gas
(LNG) in Louisiana flowing to the export plant
dropped
Enbridge Inc South Marsh Island – Sept. 10 Pulled employees
76,Ship Shoal 207, from several offshore U.S.
332 platforms Gulf of Mexico platforms
Kinder Marine terminal in – Sept. 10 Shut its
Morgan Myrtle Grove, international marine
Louisiana terminal in Myrtle Grove,
Louisiana
Sept. 12
To be partially operational
at its terminals by Friday
Citgo Lake Charles, 463,000 barrels Sept. 10 Adjusting
Louisiana refinery of oil per day operations as required
Woodside U.S. offshore, – Sept. 10 -Partially evacuating
Energy Louisiana coastal personnel from its Shenzi
operations oil production facility
-Fully evacuating staff from
its coastal shorebase and
warehouse facilities in
Sept. 11 Louisiana
Shenzi shut-in production
due to an onshore refinery
losing power on Wednesday
Cheniere Sabine Pass LNG 4.7 billion Sept. 10 LNG production at Sabine
Energy terminal, cubic feet per Pass remains uninterrupted
Louisiana day
Murphy Oil Gulf of Mexico – Sept. 10 Evacuating
Corp assets non-essential personnel at
Sept. 11 Gulf of Mexico assets
Prior to landfall, Murphy
had evacuated certain
non-essential personnel
Sept. 12 Continues to operate from
majority of its assets and
in the process of assessing
facilities and restoring
evacuated non-essential
personnel
Louisiana – Sept. 10 U.S. Coast guard orders
Offshore Oil closure of port
Port
Sept. 11 Suspended marine operations
Sept. 13 Back in service
Houma port – Sept. 10 U.S. Coast guard orders
closure of port
Port – Sept. 11 Suspended
Fourchon operations
PBF Energy Chalmette, 190,000 barrels Sept. 11 Operating with reduced staff
Louisiana Refinery of oil per day
(Reporting by Rahul Paswan, Seher Dareen and Anmol Choubey in Bengaluru; Editing by Hugh Lawson, Marguerita Choy and David Gregorio)
