(Reuters) – Energy facilities along the U.S. Gulf Coast have scaled back operations and evacuated some production sites as Hurricane Francine passed through the region.
Fancine strengthened into a hurricane on Tuesday night and is moving toward the Louisiana coast, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
About 24% of crude production and 26% of natural gas output in the Gulf of Mexico were offline due to the storm, the U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) said on Tuesday. Such interruptions have the potential to affect U.S. oil supplies, leading to upward pressure on prices for domestic oil and offshore crude grades.
Offshore production in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico accounts for about 1.8 million barrels per day (bpd) or about 15% of the nation’s total crude output.
The port of Brownsville near the border with Mexico and other smaller terminals in Texas remained closed, while other ports, including Houston, Galveston, Corpus Christi, Texas City and Freeport, were working with restrictions. Ports in Houma, Morgan City and the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port were closed to navigation, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.
“As Francine moves north through the Gulf of Mexico, we will continue to work closely with our maritime industry partners to fully reopen impacted ports as soon as it is safe to do so,” the U.S. Coast Guard said.
OPERATOR FACILITY CAPACITY DATE DETAILS
Who Dat wells – Sept. 10 All Who Dat wells
Karoon Energy Ltd shut-in
and evacuated
platform, currently anticipate
that Who Dat will be shut in for a
week
BP Schriever, – Sept. 10 Evacuating
Louisiana its onshore learning
and maintenance facilities
ExxonMobil Hoover offshore platform – Sept. 09 Shut-in output and evacuated staff
Baton Rouge, 522,500 Sept. 10 Cuts production
Louisiana refinery barrel-per-day (bpd) to as low as 20%
Chevron Gulf of Mexico – Sept. 09 Evacuating
facilitiesAnchor platform, non-essential staff from four
Tahiti oil platform offshore platforms, shutting in
oil and gas output at two offshore
production platforms
Shell Perdido oil platform, Whale 125,000 barrels of oil Sept. 10 Evacuating
platform, Auger and equivalent per day non-essential personnel from three
Enchailada/Salsa assets (boe/d) for Perdido oil offshore oil platforms, paused
platform; 100,000 boe/d drilling operations at Whale
for Whale platform platform, shut in production at
three assets.
Freeport (LNG) LNG export plant in Texas 2.1 billion cubic feet Sept. 09 Begun storm preparations at its
per day Texas plant
Cameron (LNG) LNG export plant in Louisiana – Sept. 10 Amount of natural gas flowing to
the export plant dropped
Enbridge Inc South Marsh Island 76,Ship – Sept. 10 Pulled employees from
Shoal 207, 332 platforms several offshore U.S. Gulf of
Mexico platforms
Kinder Morgan Marine terminal in Myrtle – Sept. 10 Shut its international
Grove, Louisiana marine terminal in Myrtle Grove,
Louisiana
Citgo Lake Charles, Louisiana 463,000 barrels of oil Sept. 10 Adjusting operations
refinery per day as required
Woodside Energy U.S. offshore, Louisiana – Sept. 10 -Partially evacuating personnel
coastal operations from its Shenzi oil production
facility -Fully evacuating staff
from its coastal shorebase and
warehouse facilities in Louisiana
Cheniere Energy Sabine Pass LNG terminal, 4.7 billion cubic feet Sept. 10 LNG production at Sabine Pass
Louisiana per day remains uninterrupted
(Reporting by Sherin Elizabeth Varghese and Daksh Grover in Bengaluru; editing by Jonathan Oatis and Christian Schmollingr)
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