BAYTOWN (INTELLIHUB) — Although a number of refineries along the Gulf Coast still remain crippled after suffering damage brought on by Hurricane Harvey, one Texas refinery has announced that it will be resuming production.
Reuters reports: “Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM.N) said it was restarting its 560,500 barrel per day (bpd) facility in Baytown, Texas, the second-biggest U.S. oil refinery after it was inundated by flooding.”
However, according to reports out of San Antonio and Austin, not only are commercial tanker trucks not arriving at their destinations on schedule but dozens of oil tankers reportedly still remain afloat in the Gulf waiting to offload their shipments of crude destined for refineries.
(INTELLIHUB) — Texas cities like Austin and Dallas are now starting to experience what people are dubbing a ‘gas shortage’ with long lines and in some cases dry pumps.
Although the shortages are most-likely being caused from the storm’s crippling of critical oil refineries, some are not so sure and feel that the crisis may be orchestrated. Either way the result is the same — long lines at the pumps and no gas at some stations altogether.
In Austin today there were long lines at Riverside Chevron on S. Congress Ave. where gas is expected to run out completely by nightfall.
Intellihub’s Shepard Ambellas tweeted: #Gasshortage in #Austin.”
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