Shell investing billions in Alaska to chase ‘giant’ offshore opportunity

Calgary Herald ^ | December 16, 2011 | Lisa Demer

[redhead]

LOL! That picture is literally making my mouth water. Yum!!

[redhead]

a bump and a ping...

[thackney]

California and Washington State oil refineries might be overwhelmed by this huge Alaska oil discovery

Not hardly. The west coast already imports another 1.2~1.5 million barrels per day in addition to all the oil from Alaska. If it became that large, they could just displace that oil without any changes at the refineries.

At least half of those imports come from OPEC. We could do without them.

http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_move_impcp_a2_r50_ep00_ip0_mbblpd_m.htm

[tinamina]

I happen to live near the Anacortes Shell refinery and have a brother who is a supervisor there. A lot of their oil comes from the Alaska pipeline but that flow is slowing. There are always oil tankers out there delivering crude to be refineries. I think the Anacortes Shell refinery is mostly for jet fuel though. There are other refineries though, BP and Tesoro here and then in Martinez CA there is another Shell refinery along with others.

[thackney]

Jet Fuel is mostly Kerosene. As you can see from the capabilities of the units at the Anacortes Shell refinery, that is a smaller output than some of the other products.

http://abarrelfull.wikidot.com/shell-anacortes-refinery
•Capacity: 7.25 million tons/annum & 145,000 bbl/day
Refining Units
•Atmospheric Distillation
•Vacuum Distillation - 65,500
•Delayed Coker - 25,700
•Fluidised Catalytic Cracking - 58,000
•Catalytic Reformer - 32,700
•Hydrotreating
- Naphtha - 32,900
- Gasoline - 37,400
- Kerosene - 16,000
- Diesel - 44,200
•Isomerisation Unit
•Sulphur Recovery Unit (SRU)

http://www.shellpsr.com/go/doc/3/5972/Oil-Facts
At Shell Puget Sound Refinery, 42-gallon barrel of crude oil typically produces:
gasoline, 20 gallons
diesel fuel, 10 gallons
jet fuel, 4 gallons
liquefied petroleum gas, 2 gallons
bunker fuel oil, 1 gallon

other products (petroleum coke, asphalt, road oil, lubricants, waxes, petrochemicals), 7 gallons

[Hoosier-Daddy]

Nope. Arabs are paying off A LOT of politicians in Offshore accounts. The EPA and Environazis just run cover for them.

ANYTHING else does not make sense. With regards to drilling, what they are doing goes against National Security. We need to be energy independent. 200 years from now, when we finally do have a Mr. Fusion in every vehicle, the environment can heal whatever ‘wounds’ it has. For now, families have to be taken care, jobs are needed. for G-d’s sake, oil seeps into the oceans constantly.

Like everything else, the powers that be are sociopaths that don't give a rat's ass about anything other than lining their own pockets, and sure as hell couldn't care less about the environment.

[Alas Babylon!]

Is that a Crispy Creme doughnut used as a bun????

[thackney]

It is a glazed donut. Brand names are not required.

[tinamina]

Thanks for the help. I was just repeating what I remered being told without doing any research myself.

[thackney]

I went to check because I thought that only Alaska uses more Jet Fuel than gasoline.

http://www.eia.gov/state/state-energy-profiles-data.cfm?sid=AK#Consumption

[tdscpa]

Shell has a solution for our oil problem. Now they need to solve our obama problem.