“Rita” makes the supply of raw materials for energy more intensified

According to the latest reports from the US media, the Hurricane Rita last weekend caused heavy losses in the oil, gas and petrochemical industries along the Gulf of Mexico coast of the United States. However, from the preliminary reports of some companies, the direct losses caused by Rita have not been reported. Expected big.
According to reports, of the 15 refineries in the Gulf of Mexico closed before the Rita hit, more than half of the refineries are scheduled to resume fast, with a total processing capacity of 1.9 million barrels per day. But the storm caused two major refineries in Port Arthur, Texas, to close for four weeks and cause damage to at least three other refineries.
Rita also caused losses for some chemical companies. PPG Industries stated that the windows of its administrative building at Lake Charles, Louisiana, had been damaged by storms and some of its factory buildings and roofs were damaged. PPG is now working hard to restore the plant's power facilities. At the same time, PPG has announced that due to force majeure, the plant's caustic soda, chlorine, vinyl chloride, ethylene dichloride, tetrachloroethylene, 1,1, The supply of products such as 1-trichloroethane and other chlorine-containing solvents cannot be guaranteed on schedule.
Dow Chemical stated externally that it appears that Rita has not caused serious structural damage to the company's factories in Texas and Louisiana, including the factories in Plaquemine and Hahnville that were hit by Hurricane Katrina. damage. However, the company also said that shortly after Katrina was adopted, Rita was followed by further exacerbation of the shortage of raw materials and logistics in the chemical industry in the Gulf of Mexico.

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