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Check out http://www.iaee.org/documents/denver/varela-salazar.pdf http://www.iaee.org/documents/denver/varela-salazar.pdf Texas has 2GW of refinery cogen capac
by mchannon 8y ago
Check out http://www.iaee.org/documents/denver/varela-salazar.pdf http://www.iaee.org/documents/denver/varela-salazar.pdf
Texas has 2GW of refinery cogen capacity alone.
- reitzensteinm 8y agoAccording to the numbers in that document, that's equivalent to 0.46 kWh per gallon. It also notes: "The comparison of both graphics suggests that refineries in Texas have excess capacity in many cases" Compared to a "typical requirement". The slope of the line for "typical requirement" is 0.22 kWh per gallon. This either means Texan refineries are atypically inefficient, or they sell power back to the grid or shut down their power plants. Either way, we're still an order of magnitude away from the 6 kWh/gallon figure, and from sources that look fairly credible.
- mchannon 8y agoFair enough. I do know that extraction and pipelines also require prodigious amounts of power. Obviously not so much that it’s uneconomical, but seeing the electric bill for one oil well in the Permian was eye-opening, particularly at the 3c/kWh rate they somehow got. It’d be nice to know the range for different kinds of oil wells. Maybe that’s the source of the electrical use.