AZL General Discussion, page-20768

For those still interested in the effect of cold weather on pumping stuff out of the ground and converting it to useful products:

HOUSTON — A severe winter storm shut a U.S. Gulf Coast refinery in Texas on Tuesday triggered malfunctions at others, and halved North Dakota oil production as it dumped snow and rain across a broad swath of the nation.

TotalEnergies' 238,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, was examining units after a plantwide power outage on Tuesday, Jan. 16 morning as a winter storm brought frigid temperatures to the U.S. Gulf Coast, sources familiar with the company's operations said.

North Dakota's oil production fell by half on Tuesday due to extreme cold weather and operational challenges, the state's pipeline authority said.

Oil production was estimated to have fallen between 600,000 and 650,000 barrels per day, according to the North Dakota Pipeline Authority. The state's overall production stood at about 1.27 million barrels per day in October, based on the latest available data from the Energy information Administration.