Submitted by hazelnut_coffay t3_11suttj in news
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BuffaloOk7264 t1_jcg0ag8 wrote
There is a jackass looking to develop a crude refinery in Bloomington, south of Victoria. They will pollute San Antonio Bay with any spills or normal emissions which is right beside Aransas Pass Wildlife Refuge, one of the last “clean” bay areas in Texas.
dzastrus t1_jcgab08 wrote
We burn more oil every day. Exxon has known for decades that it's ruining the climate. Congrats, Exxon, you're literally stepping on the gas to bring us all down.
danvapes_ t1_jczn8nh wrote
And what exactly do you propose as an immediate solution? There isn't one unfortunately. We are a society reliant on fossil fuels for almost everything.
dzastrus t1_jd00df5 wrote
Continuing as we are is equally devastating to not only humanity but the ecosystems of the entire planet. What’s worse? We take a huge hit and leave something for when humanity recovers or drive everything into catastrophe and there’s nothing left, especially not us? It’s not whether we can’t run air conditioners anymore, it’s that the entire tropics will be uninhabitable, the seas belching jellyfish into the streets of flooded cities, and every human left will have fought countless marauders to keep one tiny bit of inhabitable space. It’s game over already for a lot of things. Why not try to stop some of the worst of it before we lack the technical capacity to engineer a stop? Invest everything, and I mean everything to the effort. Take the hit. Figure a lot of us won’t make it. Apologize to everything.
ImNotAWhaleBiologist t1_jcjgong wrote
Don’t roughnecks curse enough already?
AvogadrosMoleSauce t1_jcfjjjc wrote
It'd be neat if someone could take a boring machine and tunnel under the site.
hazelnut_coffay OP t1_jcfj7hu wrote
March 16 (Reuters) - Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM.N) has successfully started up a new $2-billion crude distillation unit (CDU) at its Beaumont, Texas refinery, said Karen McKee, president of Exxon Products Solutions on Thursday.
The new CDU adds 250,000 barrels per day (bpd) to the refinery's capacity to break down crude oil into feedstocks for motor fuels.
In a statement issued on Thursday, Exxon set the refinery's capacity at more than 630,000 bpd.
"The unit is started up and we're just ramping up rates at present, but it's operating very reliably," McKee said in a phone interview.
Exxon began the initial startup of the new crude unit in late February, people familiar with plant operations told Reuters. read more
"We're well over 200,000 bpd at this point," McKee said. "We're pushing rates right now so I would anticipate we'll get to full capacity soon."
Exxon has said it wants the crude unit to reach its full 250,000-bpd capacity by the end of March.
The Beaumont refinery expansion, built between 2019 and 2022 and which includes a new hydrotreater, allows Exxon to take advantage of crude oil it produces in the Permian Basin in Texas and New Mexico.
McKee said the Beaumont refinery is well-positioned because of "tremendous logistics in and out of the site" to supply diesel and other motor fuels from the new crude unit to U.S. or international markets.
McKee said the biggest challenge was pushing on through the COVID-19 pandemic.
"We had the courage to keep going on this project despite the many challenges both with getting work done and also demand for products and cash flow during the pandemic period," McKee said.
The new crude unit is equal in size to mid-level refinery and boosts the Beaumont refinery's capacity by 68%.