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2021-02-16 Economy

Oil hits pandemic high as winter storm pushes demand and poses production risk

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Posted by Besoeker 2021-02-16 06:32|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top

#1 Texas and Oklahoma are freezing up. Refineries there have been shut down due to equipment failing in the cold.

Gee, I wonder how important Texas refineries that the Enviros hate are to the US economy?

Wind power fails. Natural Gas, on the other hand, seems to just keep going. And the baseload that is saving lives now is good old Coal and a few Nukes.

Posted by Deadeye Jaiting7534 2021-02-16 16:09|| 2021-02-16 16:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Natural Gas, on the other hand, seems to just keep going. Natgas supplies in Ohio in Jan. 1977 were a bit doubtful due to pipeline problems during that record cold month. Hasn't made the news since then though.

Posted by Thineger Sproing6704 2021-02-16 18:36|| 2021-02-16 18:36|| Front Page Top

#3 You have to have power at the natural gas wellhead and the various processing facilities - you need to keep the wellhead heated somehow even in just mildly cold conditions if (as is usually the case) the gas has a bit of entrained water, as the pressure drop through the wellhead will chill it to freezing. In very cold conditions any residual water could freeze up anywhere in the processing stream.

Posted by Glenmore 2021-02-16 19:54|| 2021-02-16 19:54|| Front Page Top

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