re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict.

am I in the 0.1%???????

Is that because My experience was in starting up 4 new ethylene complexes and your evaluation is based on junk yard disassemblies practices. The two are not comparable in complexity or long term commitment.

wrong thread

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Is that because My experience was in starting up 4 new ethylene complexes and your evaluation is based on junk yard disassemblies practices. The two are not comparable in complexity or long term commitment.

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There is no reason for the vast majority to know about crude oil/midstream/refining. The problem is very few politicians and no media pundits, including "experts" seem to know much. Both sides are grossly misinformed.

I have worked with refining a good bit to reapply entire units elsewhere, with EPC firms and prospective buyers. Major refiners began to use heavy in their sour crude lines in the early 80s to make petcoke with new markets and exponential prices

Your comments indicate you know zero about crude oil and refining other than its crude oil and refining. Instead it is a very wide variety of sources all with different chemical characteristics as well as a wide variety of refined products depending on the combination of process units for desired markets. I most definitely know more about this than you do.

BNSF was bought by Berkshire Hathaway for low sulfur, low BTU coal in SW Wyoming that Newtron wanted for coal fired power plants.

Not only the reversal of Capline but several other pipelines took enough Canadian to the Gulf Coast, but enough to export via TX terminals. By 2016, Keystone XL wasn't needed. Utah is not Bakken, or Canada, and wax doesn't travel far in pipelines. High wax crude is great for the few refineries making base oil for lubricants and hydraulic fluids.

Ethylene is a different thing. BTW, Shell Chemicals bought 3 refineries for the naphtha for its Olefins unit at Norco, in LA, AL, and PR. When NGLs were more available, its closed Yabucoa, added a vacuum unit to St. Rose for asphalt production and continued to operate Saraland AL until it could sell it to a failed renewable diesel conversion. St Rose has been closed for over a decade now and owned by a tank terminal where it sits.

I came close to selling the fractionation of the ethylene unit at TX city to Westlake Group for an expansion at its Lake Charles (Carlyss) site.

UCC/Dow Texas City is all bare ground now.

This White House is so well organized...

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Hahahaha. “Ukraine's strikes on Russian oil infrastructure have been greeted with a ‘shrug’ in Washington, according to a U.S. official who spoke to the Kyiv Independent. Another figure close to the administration told the Kyiv Independent that much of the administration's rhetoric around Ukrainian attacks on Russian oil infrastructure was aimed at a domestic audience, pointing out that the CIA was still supplying Ukraine with intelligence on Russian air defense dispositions that helped facilitate Ukraine's deep-strike campaign.”

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Must be a few grey-haired CIA types, close to retirement, who are absolutely loving this.

After spending a large portion of their early careers dealing with the Russian threat, they finally get to take a more hands-on approach and start helping to blow **** up!

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And Moscow still thinks they will win this war?

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Remember Kostyantyn Vlasenko, the soldier from Ukraine’s 30th Mechanized who was recently rescued from the battlefield in a spectacular evacuation using a drone?

Today, he was awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine. For 491 days, since June 2025, he had continuously held his position near the village of Senkivka in Kharkiv Oblast, carrying out missions.

For 232 of those days, he was completely alone, after his fellow soldier was killed while attempting to withdraw.

After being severely wounded, he was forced to amputate his own feet with a knife. Yet he remained in radio contact, continued relaying vital battlefield intelligence, and received food and medical supplies delivered by drones.

Finally, in October 2026, after numerous failed attempts to rescue him, he was successfully evacuated from the battlefield using a heavy-lift drone, in what was the first rescue operation of its kind in history.

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Hopefully "... with the participation of Europe and other international partners" = NATO no-fly zone.

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Zelensky says Ukraine and Turkey agreed to work together on restoring the Black Sea grain corridor following his meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. He also proposed holding trilateral negotiations in Turkey with the participation of Europe and other international partners. Kyiv says it wants Turkey and European states more directly involved in efforts aimed at ending Russia’s war against Ukraine.

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The Ukrainian Storm Shadow.

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Fire Point co-founder and chief designer Denys Shtilerman says the FP-7 ballistic missile has already seen combat use, but its current high-explosive fragmentation version is too expensive for routine employment. He says delivering a 200 kg payload over 300 km costs about $600,000 with FP-7, compared with roughly $50,000 using an FP-2. Shtilerman says the missile makes more sense once a cluster-warhead version is codified. He added that FP-9 is in final testing.

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It is very expensive, but it is almost guaranteed to reach its target.

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Cluster warheads used against oil storage sites, refineries and airfields offer a significant upgrade in potential effectiveness. Instead of hitting one storage tank or aircraft you might now destroy additional units.

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Cluster war head or firing at targets with narrow window of opportunity (where a short time of target exposure) or against targets with heavy AD (that calcilation sure counts 1 FP-2 versus 1 FP-7, what is usualy not the true case). And hard targets, where the energy of Mach 3+ speed helps penetrate...

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LUKOIL is the company that Kushner is trying to buy from the Russians at pennies on the ruble, using the laundered Saudi and Emirati money.

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The sale of Lukoil is of assets owned outside of Russia which are for sale. There are a number of suitors, several from the Arab world.