Posted on 10/16/2007, 3:11:53 AM by Islander7
Whenever Tim Charlton pulls to the Chevron gas station in Moss Point, he says it's painful looking at the rising gas prices.
"It's hurting at the pump. I've been offshore for 15 years, and I know there is plenty of oil out there. And it seems a shame they are not producing enough," Charlton said.
Because of the demand for gas in the United States, the Chevron Pascagoula Refinery is getting ready to pump out more gasoline to consumers.
"We will start construction on the new facility in the early part of 2008, and we are going to invest half a billion dollars," Chevron General Manager Roland Kell said.
--SNIP--
Right now, the refinery produces about 500,000 gallons of gas per day. Once the project is finished, that number will increase to 600,000 gallons a day.
"That will increase gasoline yield at the refinery by about 10 percent," Kell said.
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Gov. Kirk Fordice
I hope he isn't the one doing the math on the project engineering.
lol, just thinking the same thing.
It looks like 20% to me but I’m just a dumb old man...
You just missed out on new math.
Bill
This guy isn't even close.
Pascagoula Refinery Products
http://www.chevron.com/products/about/pascagoula/refiningprocess/pascprod.shtml
Chevron's Pascagoula Refinery is primarily a fuels refinery, in that we mainly manufacture motor gasoline, about 130,000 barrels per day (BPD); jet fuel, 50,000 BPD; and diesel fuel, 68,000 BPD. Our other products include fuel oils such as bunker fuel, Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), aviation gasoline, jet fuels, petroleum coke and sulfur.
130,000 BPD = 5.46 million gallons a day.
Hey, I just posted the link. I take no responsibility for their math!
I thought the number was low as well. Lightering ships arrive and depart in a steady stream.
At any rate, I consider it good news for the US economy as a whole.
I understand, that was a reference to the author, not you.
Right now, the refinery produces about 500,000 gallons of gas per day. Once the project is finished, that number will increase to 600,000 gallons a day.
“That will increase gasoline yield at the refinery by about 10 percent,” Kell said.
I hope he isn’t the one doing the math on the project engineering.”
I know it is early for me, but I had to read this 3 times to see the math in the report.
Plainly, today’s “journalists” are not taking any math classes, and spell check doesn’t help them, either...
God help the kids in today’s schools.
It isn’t the journalist, it’s the guy at the refinery that seems to have trouble with the math.
Not just the math, but the capacity of the refinery is off by a factor of 10.
It looks like they have a capacity to refine 330,000 barrels of crude a day. I would think you could get more gasoline out of that, but perhaps they are geared up to produce primarily other products. http://www.eia.doe.gov/neic/rankings/refineries.htm
See post #8
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1911741/posts?page=8#8
The Chevron Pascagoula Refinery normally produces over 5 million gallons a day.
Found the real numbers. Actual the author has mostly correct numbers, approximately 10% and nearly 600,000 gallons per day (additional, not total) but where 500,000 existing came from is a mystery.
Chevron Announces Refinery Project to Increase U.S. Gasoline Production
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/AQM10915102007-1.htm
Chevron U.S.A. Inc. announced today plans to build a major gasoline production unit at its refinery in Pascagoula, Miss. With environmental permits in place, construction of the Continuous Catalyst Regeneration (CCR) Project, estimated to cost around $500 million, is due to begin in early 2008 with completion anticipated by mid-2010. The new CCR unit will improve equipment reliability and utilization, and allow the refinery to optimize product yields. Gasoline production at the refinery is expected to increase by approximately 10 percent, or about 600,000 gallons per day.
continued at link.
Since 2005, Chevron has executed other projects that have increased its gasoline manufacturing capacity in the United States by about 1 million gallons per day. In late 2006, the Pascagoula Refinery completed upgrades to its Fluid Catalytic Cracking unit, increasing its gasoline production by roughly 10 percent to about 5.5 million gallons per day.
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