The stream of crude oil that comes out of wells in Saudi Arabia is mixed with gaseous hydrocarbons like methane, butane and propane, liquid condensates. crude oil, water, and contaminants such as salts, sulfur, and sand. It cannot be refined into gasoline as is. ((Thread)
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GOSP units take the raw crude oil mix and remove impurities and separate the mix into distinct commodities mainly crude oil but also condensates, NGLs, and natural gas. (Thread)
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Adding to my lesson on GOSP separation plants that Abqaiq has important “stabilization” plants that take poisonous hydrogen sulfide out of Saudi heavier grades. The Abqaiq stabilization towers are within 300 kilometers of Iran.
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I maintained GOSPs for 19 years. The Abqaiq Plant was not a GOSP. All the Southern Area GOSPs sent their crude to the plant for stabilization before loading onto tankers at Ras Tanura. The question is will they need to rebuild the plant before production can continue?
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Abqaiq not only area reported in attack or w fires and Abqaiq stabilization plants (that remove hydrogen sulfide eg poisonous gases) necessary for cleaning up crude for export as well... repeating for lay readers
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Superb explanation. Now even people like me understand what went on. Thanks for taking the time to tweet this.
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Thank you for this thread
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Critical info to know about the facilities attacked in KSA. I'm not convinced this was Iran, but the importance of the destroyed sites is a key factor
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Unless you believe in far-fetched/improbable conspiracy theories, it could really be no power other than Iran. Iran/IRGC is trying to compel the US to drop its unilateral sanctions by disrupting the flow of oil from the region in a way they (incorrectly) believe is deniable.
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Or to remind MBS that he has critical assets within easy reach, he can't defend them, he wants to do an IPO based on those assets becuz he needs the $, and maybe its time for SA and its allies to stop throwing their weight around & negotiate?
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Negotiate what, exactly?
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Investment implications??
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Short oil once you see that the effect of this news is waning and the price spike is exhausted.
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Thank you for this. How confident are we of the degree of actual damage? Is there any reason to believe that the attack may NOT have done as much damage as claimed? Ie. SA taking advantage of the situation to lean on world oil makets and let Iran take the blame?
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Wouldn’t anyone with basic imagery identify GOSPs as primary targets? If this is a primary production facility and the perps have basic intelligence (e.g. analysts who’ve worked in oil production), all you need is the drones explosives and audacity, no? Could still be Houthi op?
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