Notes: refineries
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VIDEO OF REFINERIES
Residents living near refineries back new EPA
emission rules
Refinery – separates crude oil into useable products
Mandated – required by law
Fence line – at the edge of the property
Carcinogen – chemical which causes cancer
Overburdened – dealing with too much of something
Flares – flames at top of stacks
Toxic - poisonous
So what’s up with that?
Why are the refineries in Galena Park and Manchester?
Why do refineries exist at all?
Valero refinery on the ship channel
Oil Refinery
Jan 16
Purpose: to
separate crude oil
into different
products based on
length of
hydrocarbon
chains!
So what’s up with that?
Why are the refineries in Galena Park and Manchester?
Why do refineries exist at all?
Houston Ship Channel
25-mile-long complex
1st in U.S. imports and exports;
Each year, more than 200 million tons of cargo move
through the Port of Houston, carried by more than 8,000
vessel and 200,000 barges
Creates thousands of direct jobs.
Houston Refineries
Process 45% of US crude oil (which is 9% of global
supply)
Valero, Exxon, Shell
Thousands of jobs
More than ¼ of all US oil jobs are in the Houston area
Average weekly wage in oil and gas is $3,407 (2013 fig)
So what’s up with that?
Why are the refineries in Galena Park and Manchester?
Why do refineries exist at all?
Reflection – Left side
1. Write a tradeoff sentence to explain the role of
refineries in Houston.
2. Explain how consumers are part of this issue.
3. As a consumer, what is one way you can reduce the
need for all these refineries?
Lap top expectations
In class every day
On desk when I ask you to be on it. Otherwise, safely in
bag on the floor.
Cannot be on your desk unless we are using it as a class.
Use it at your desk and stay with the class – no surfing
Charging – before class starts, lap tables
Don’t have it? Bookwork.