The article talks about the problems with refineries being flooded for extensive periods of time. I would like to know which refineries, if any, are actually built in the New Orleans basin below sea level and are standing in flood waters at this moment? I am surprised that any are built that close to the city. Usually refineries are built some distance from housing.

If the refineries are not within the flooded area that was supposed to be protected by New Orleans' failed levees, then I wouldn't expect that they had any substantial period of standing water. Only refineries within the city flood basin itself, built below sea level, should have significant flood damage.

I could imagine that some refineries outside the city may not yet have been inspected, not because they are standing in flood waters but merely because of rescue operations keeping people out of the general area, along with road damage making the site inaccessible. The article made it sound like the refineries are actually flooded, though, and I wonder if that's accurate.