Erwin Seba and David Gaffen At Reuters do an excellent job explaining some of the many problems getting refineries restarted here… The article gives one a sense that it will be a while before refineries are back to running at pre-Harvey levels (seasonally adjusted)… Here are just two potential problems:
““Any time you have water in a refinery you have to do lube checks on every instrument, which is literally thousands of checks,” Gary Simmons, senior vice president of supply and operations at Valero, told a conference last week.”
And, this:
“A major concern, according to sources familiar with operations there and at other refiners, is whether the pumps that supply the crude to the refinery will run successfully after being underwater for several days.”
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