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Anonymous (not verified) on August 30, 2005 - 4:47am Permalink | Subthread | Comments top
A couple of snippets from CNBC.

They had a reporter who flew over Port Fourchon yesterday who says that he was told it will be weeks if not longer than a month before the facility is back up again.  Apparently the damage was quite extensive.

They also interviewed someone from Valero who said it will be at least 2 weeks until that St. Charles refinery is back up.  One of their biggest problems is lack of humans to do the necessary work, not to mention lack of power and downed power lines within the facility, and time needed to go through all the startup test procedures.

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mw on August 30, 2005 - 8:50am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Phone Interview with the director of Port Fourchon this morning was sobering - his facility clearly may have big impacts; ports to the east are "worse, much worse".

Not only energy offloading at issue but also servicing the rigs - with shops / plants / repair and new construction facilities in the area (I assume) they are going to have a hard time getting those needed materials out of the area to the rigs and platforms if so.

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