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Sam Foucher on August 27, 2006 - 9:16am Permalink | Subthread | Comments top
I've started a google map mashup:

Hurricane Ernesto

It's a work in progress, I'm planning to add more NDBC buoys (just two for now) and refinery positions. Any comments or suggestions are welcomed.

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Rembrandt on August 27, 2006 - 9:25am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
What is the refinery processing capacity that could be taken offline if Ernesto hits Florida --> Georgia --> Carolina ?
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Robert Rapier on August 27, 2006 - 12:40pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I don't think it's a big number. I can't think off the top of my head of any mega-refineries in that area. I would guess it would be 5% or less of total U.S. refining capacity.
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totoneila on August 27, 2006 - 1:30pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Hello R-squared,

So if this happens: will each American proactively drive 5% less to keep the gasoline price the same, or will the price/gallon rise to force some more people to unhappily pedal and/or use shoe leather?  I think we TODers already know the answer. MPP is really difficult to overcome.

Bob Shaw in Phx,Az  Are Humans Smarter than Yeast?

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PaulS on August 27, 2006 - 2:34pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Well, duh. Of course the price will rise if it turns out there isn't enough to go around. It always does, even when governments intervene - in fact, especially when they intervene.

No one was eager to pay a higher price "proactively" to pay for reserve capacity. No one was eager to disempower the NIMBYs and BANANAs "proactively" in order that there would be a place outside the hurricane zone to put reserve capacity. That means the system - any system - always gets stretched to its limits. Pay now or pay later, but always pay in the end.

There is no free lunch, even though politicians on all sides promise free lunches and feckless fools happily vote accordingly. Then again, none of this is new. So what?

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Leanan on August 27, 2006 - 9:37am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Nice work.

Is there any way you could add rig locations, like RigZone does?

http://gom.rigzone.com/rita.asp

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rude crude on August 27, 2006 - 10:47am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
 Is anyone from TOD planning to attend the USDA-DOE "Advancing Renewable Energy Conference".  October 10-12, 2006, at the America's Center in St. Louis, Missouri?
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rude crude on August 27, 2006 - 12:34pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Conference program and registration info can be found here. link
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Sam Foucher on August 27, 2006 - 4:42pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
It would be nice but it's a lot of markers!
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Sam Foucher on August 27, 2006 - 10:10pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I've added an overlay of the oil and gas production in the Gulf. Just click on the link "Show Gulf of Mexico Oil/Natural Gas Production " below the map.
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Dragonfly41 on August 27, 2006 - 10:31pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Wow...that is awesome Khebab!  We need to keep this around as a reference for the hurricane season.  I didn't know you could do this with Google maps.

Thanks.

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boby on August 27, 2006 - 10:25am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
FYI,when I click on the buoy markers I am taken
to a description of subway routes in England.
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Oil CEO on August 27, 2006 - 10:28am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
So I guess you're all set in a Hurricane! :)
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Sam Foucher on August 27, 2006 - 4:41pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Thanks! it has been corrected.
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Dragonfly41 on August 27, 2006 - 10:31am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I think just putting the major rigs, coastal refineries, the LOOP would be cool.  I wouldn't try to put on all the rigs like RIGZONE, that would be a large project.

How about plotting just the areas in the Gulf with largest densities of rigs (shaded boundaries with general locations)?

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totoneila on August 27, 2006 - 10:58am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Hello Khebab,

Don't forget to plot the Cuban rigs in the Florida Straits--Hurricane Ernesto is headed right for them!  Hopefully, the rigowners have a high level of tech: so that if a platform is wrenched off its location by high seas that the Florida coastlines are not flooded with crude.  That would make Jeb & George Bush declare war on Castro.  Here is an article and photo of a Cuban rig.

Bob Shaw in Phx,Az  Are Humans Smarter than Yeast?

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