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Gold/Mining/Energy : Strictly: Drilling and oil-field services
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To: BeachBum who wrote (74407)9/25/2000 1:14:38 AM
From: BeachBum  Read Replies (2) of 95453
 
Someone questioned a hundred posts ago on whether SPR has sour or sour/sweet in reserve. Too many posts to keep up with.

Sept. 22, 2000, 7:02PM

Storage sites

Details on the nation's emergency crude oil supplies stored in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve's underground salt caverns along the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast:

BRYAN MOUND

· Size: 500 acres

· Capacity: 232 million barrels

· Drawdown rate: 1.5 million barrels per day sour or sour/sweet crude or 1.0 million barrels per day sweet crude

· Distribution terminals: Seaway Terminals at Freeport, Texas City and Jones Creek

· Interstate pipelines: Arco 20-inch to Midcontinent, Seaway 30-inch to Midcontinent

BIG HILL

· Size: 270 acres

· Capacity: 170 million barrels

· Drawdown rate: 1.1 million barrels per day (sweet or sour crude)

· Distribution: Sun Nederland Terminal, Unocal Nederland Terminal

· Interstate pipelines: Sun/Midvalley 20-inch to Midwest, Mobil 20-inch to Midwest, Texaco 16-inch to Midcontinent

WEST HACKBERRY

· Size: 565 acres

· Capacity: 222 million barrels

· Drawdown rate: 1.3 million barrels per day (sweet or sour crude)

· Distribution: Sun Nederland Terminal

· Interstate pipelines: Sun/Midvalley 20-inch to Midwest, Mobil 20-inch to Midwest, Texaco 16-inch to Midcontinent

BAYOU CHOCTAW

· Size: 356 acres

· Capacity: 76 million barrels

· Drawdown rate: 515,000 barrels per day (sour crude); 300,000 barrels per day (sweet crude)

· Distribution: Equilon Sugarland Terminal, Koch St. James Terminal; Louisiana Offshore Oil Port; Capline Terminal

· Interstate pipelines: Capline 40-inch to Midwest

Source: U.S. Department of Energy



I know someone posted #'s earlier but not sure it had sweet/sour info.

BB ^-^-
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