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re: Question about the quality of Venezuelan crude oil...
Posted on 1/5/26 at 11:38 am to HenryParsons
Posted on 1/5/26 at 11:38 am to HenryParsons
I believe anywhere with a cracking unit and a comer can handle some of it.
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Posted on 1/5/26 at 11:40 am to Oilfieldbiology
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I believe anywhere with a cracking unit and a comer can handle some of it.
Shell Norco has a DCU and FCC and can not run heavy sours.
Posted on 1/5/26 at 11:40 am to dukesilver72
Is it the sulfur that they can’t process?
Posted on 1/5/26 at 11:41 am to Oilfieldbiology
As far as i know.
Posted on 1/5/26 at 11:43 am to Oilfieldbiology
Shell Norco has a Coker, but it's a very small one.
Posted on 1/5/26 at 11:43 am to dukesilver72
I guess shell would just send the sours to Convent and then convent would send their super heavy bottoms back to Norco for processing.
Posted on 1/5/26 at 11:44 am to HenryParsons
Most of our refineries were built to process their heavy sour crude.
Posted on 1/5/26 at 11:46 am to Butterfinger1
The Norco cokers are small. Marathon Galveston cokers are small too, but they have a resid hydrotreater that is a monster. Valero Port Arthur cokers are massive.
Posted on 1/5/26 at 11:55 am to blueridgeTiger
Keep that Mudd over there!!!
Posted on 1/5/26 at 12:00 pm to blueridgeTiger
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I was VP of a refinery in Tuscaloosa, and we regularly processed Ven crude with our coker unit.
I do some business with that refinery. Retired now?
Posted on 1/5/26 at 12:00 pm to HenryParsons
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Question about the quality of Venezuelan crude oil...
Doesn't matter about the quality of the oil if its free.....................
Posted on 1/5/26 at 12:21 pm to boogiewoogie1978
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Doesn't matter about the quality of the oil if its free.....................
Why would it be free?
Posted on 1/5/26 at 12:44 pm to HenryParsons
Chevron Pascagoula….. that’s our bread and butter baby.
Posted on 1/5/26 at 1:08 pm to dukesilver72
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Shell Norco has a DCU and FCC and can not run heavy sours.
Isn't it a RCCU not a FCCU at Norco?
Posted on 1/5/26 at 1:45 pm to HenryParsons
Valero is capable...it's a very heavy product that few refineries can handle. Plus, storage is an issue as tanks are not abundant enough resulting in a lot placed in open pits.
Posted on 1/5/26 at 3:48 pm to Papoo63
We want that stuff you can pave a road with… the knuckle draggers in the Coker like it when you have to shovel it into the Coke drums it’s so thick. Thick as train smoke!
Posted on 1/5/26 at 3:51 pm to TexasHand
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We want that stuff you can pave a road with
Out of curiosity, how is asphalt stored after it is processed out of the crude oil? Solid that is ready to melt at use?
Posted on 1/5/26 at 3:54 pm to Kingpenm3
Stays heated. Getting it liquid once solidified is tough but does happen.
Posted on 1/5/26 at 4:52 pm to bamabenny
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I do some business with that refinery. Retired now?
Yep, I have been retired for several years and moved to rural Texas.
Posted on 1/5/26 at 5:04 pm to AUFANATL
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I know very little of the O+G industry but a while back I took a vacation to Aruba and there was a huge refinery on the island. Someone told me that's where the Venezuelan crude used to go (right off their shore) but now it was mostly shut down and not operating.
That would be the refinery on St. Croix, USVI. Been shutdown for a while and needs some works. However, the slow down in permits and money have been largely the associated with little Venezuelan crude to process. Also, US government did not want a cheap refinery so close to Venezuela to fund a government they did not like.
With the proposed changes, that may change the equation quite nicely for USVI. Huge number of jobs for an area that can use it.
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