Oil and Gas warning

[TheTexan]

Next hurricane is gonna be super bad, Cat 6 or Cat 7 at least

 

[Anti Federalist]

All that said, Port Fourchon is closed and out of commission for probably at least 6 months to a year.

 

[Anti Federalist]

Next hurricane is gonna be super bad, Cat 6 or Cat 7 at least

 

[phill4paul]

Gas was $2.89 when I tanked off this morning. 5 hrs. later $2.95. I predict over $3 by weekend.

 

[pcosmar]

All that said, Port Fourchon is closed and out of commission for probably at least 6 months to a year.

Bets sooner.
Storms always make a mess.. Clean up gets Phucked up by FEMA,,but gets done anyway.

 

[pcosmar]

File under .
Never build on muddy river edge.


It is hard to imagine that level of Stupidity without Photos.

 

[Swordsmyth]

In the photo I posted, the facility on the lower left side is a PHI heliport. At the very lower left are mobile homes on stilts that are pilot's berthing and bunkrooms.

Still standing.

The building at the upper center is C-Port 2. Those are covered vessel slips designed for 300 foot vessels. The one at the top of the photo is slip 9, which can fit vessels up to about 500 feet. They have a traveling gantry crane in each one designed to load deck cargo on the vessels.

Those panels were designed to blow off and save the structure.

There are three CPorts in Fourchon, and I reckon all of them look about the same today.

Most of the rest of the buildings are still standing.

When Rita hit Cameron LA, in 2005, I was there a couple of weeks after the fact.

That was a Cat 4 storm. It hit with a 25 storm surge, and it washed that town off the map. There was nothing substantial left.

Grand Isle's weather station never recorded a gust over 85 knots, and they were just a few miles to the east.

This is the record from that station, pressure never fell below 971 millibars and wind speeds, even in gusts, never exceeded 44 M/s.

That's 85 knots in non communist measurement.

The damage is see is what to be expected with roughly 100 knot winds.

A strong Cat 2 or weak Cat 3 at most.

Bad, sure, but not the end of the world - storm of the apocalypse that was predicted or is still being reported as.

 

[pcosmar]

LOL

Been through several.. Danced in the eye of Georges and Wilma.. had my hair messed by a couple others..

Checked my old house after Ivan (Cat 4) .. unscathed.. it was a Mobile home with an addition.. and a small Garage.

They always do make a mess.

http://pcosmar.blogspot.com/2005/07/cleaning-up.html

I think that was Dennis.

 

[Anti Federalist]

This is conclusive proof to me that these weather propagandists are deliberating hyping storm strengths to create panic, submission, FUD and ratings.

There is no way this damage was consistent with a direct eyewall hit of a strong Cat 4 or weak Cat 5 storm.

Ida-hit oil industry port sustains less damage than feared

https://www.breitbart.com/news/ida-hit-oil-industry-port-sustains-less-damage-than-feared/

AP2 Sep 20210

A critical port that serves as the primary support hub for the Gulf of Mexico’s deepwater offshore oil and gas industry sustained less damage from Hurricane Ida’s direct hit than initially feared and should be able to return to working operations “in the near future.”

Ida-hit oil industry port sustains less damage than fearedBy MELINDA DESLATTE and DAVID KOENIGAssociated PressThe Associated PressBATON ROUGE, La.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A critical port that serves as the primary support hub for the Gulf of Mexico’s deepwater offshore oil and gas industry sustained less damage from Hurricane Ida’s direct hit than initially feared and should be back to working operations “in the near future,” a port leader said Thursday.

Ida knocked out Port Fourchon in Lafourche Parish and hobbled the oil and gas industry. But Chett Chiasson, executive director for the commission that operates Port Fourchon, said assessment teams were surveying the damage and “it did not look as bad as I thought.”

“The structures are still good, not all of them, OK, not nearly all of them. But the majority of them are still good, and we can get things back up and running,” Chiasson said at a livestreamed Lafourche Parish briefing on Ida response. “For the most part, they’re going to be able to get them up and running fairly quickly.”

Chiasson had previously raised serious concerns about the extent of the port’s damage and the potential impact to the nation’s fuel supplies. He acknowledged Thursday that he “expected the worst” and was surprised when the destruction was far less dire.

Getting the port operational is integral to the nation’s fuel supply.