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Mon Sep 15, 2008 4:29pm EDT

(Reuters) - Oil companies inspected facilities for damage in the wake of Hurricane Ike, which struck Houston, the heart of the U.S. energy industry, Saturday.

In the storm's wake, a quarter of the nation's oil and refined fuel production idled, much of it awaiting restoration of electric power.

Early overflights found no major damage to energy infrastructure, though several Texas refineries needed some repair and Shell, the biggest Gulf of Mexico producer, found moderate damage to some of its platforms.

The following outlines the impact of Ike and the leftover effects of Hurricane Gustav on the energy sector:

***************************HIGHLIGHTS*************************

CUMULATIVE IMPACT OF GUSTAV AND IKE

*20.48 million barrels of crude oil

*102.79 billion cubic feet of natural gas

*33.06 million barrels of refining (counting only plants completely shut)

CURRENTLY SHUT/SLOWED

*99.9 pct Gulf of Mexico oil output

*93.8 pct Gulf of Mexico gas output

*15 refineries shut, 24.6 pct of US capacity

*1 refinery, ConocoPhillips Sweeny unit, restarting

*5 refineries representing 7.7 pct of US capacity at reduced rates

*Some ports, Gulf Coast pipelines ramping back up

*At least 55 ships await entry to Houston

OTHER HIGHLIGHTS

*Oil drops $5 on financials, Ike

*11 rigs, platforms damaged or lost: USCG

*Louisiana Oil Port restarts, but power limited

*Anadarko restarts Independence Hub

*Seaway crude line restarts

*Henry Hub force majeure still, some damage

*Refineries showing little damage

*Shell evaluating restart sked for Capline

******************CRUDE OIL, NATURAL GAS********************

HEADLINES:

*99.9 percent of U.S. Gulf's 1.3 million barrels per day crude output shut

Sunday, from 99.6 Sunday, MMS says.

*93.8 pct of the Gulf's 7.4 billion cubic feet per day natural gas output

shut Sunday, up from 91.9 pct Sunday.

*****************************REFINING****************************

REFINERIES RESTARTING:

*ConocoPhillips Sweeny, Texas, restarting

REFINERIES SHUT: (Texas, Ike-caused unless otherwise noted):

*BP 467,700 Texas City

*Citgo 300,000 bpd Corpus Christi refinery

*COP.N 195,000 Alliance, La, some Ike flooding

*Exxon Mobil Baytown 567,000

*Exxon Mobil 349,000 bpd Beaumont

*Flint Hills 300,000 bpd Corpus Christi

*Lyondell 270,600 bpd Houston refinery

*Marathon Texas City 76,000

*Motiva 285,000 bpd Port Arthur

*Pasadena Refining 100,000 bpd

*Shell-Pemex Deer Park 340,000

*Total 232,000 bpd Port Arthur refinery-DOE

*Valero 83,000 bpd Houston

*Valero 200,000 bpd Texas City

*Valero 325,000 bpd Port Arthur

REFINERIES AT REDUCED RATES:

*Citgo 430,000 bpd Lake Charles, Louisiana

*ConocoPhillips 280,000 bpd Lake Charles

*Motiva 220,000 bpd Norco, Lousiana

*Motiva 235,000 bpd Convent, Louisiana

*Valero 195,000 bpd Memphis, Tennessee

BACKGROUND:

*At peak of Gustav's impact, more than a third of U.S. refining capacity

was either slowed or shut down.

*As of Sunday, 24.6 pct U.S. capacity shut down due Gustav or Ike

********************ELECTRIC POWER IMPACT*************************

*DOE: 3 million without power in Texas, Ike's path

*Entergy shuts Sabine, Lewis Creek power plants due Ike

*********************PORTS, WATERWAYS****************************

HEADLINES:

*LOOP restarts

*Corpus reopens; Houston part open, Beaumont-PA, Lake Charles still shut

*At least 55 ships await entry to Houston

*********************PIPELINES, GAS PLANTS************************

HEADLINES:

*TEPPCO partially back

*Explorer expects return to normal by late Tuesday

*Magellan some damage, assessing its system

*Seaway restarts as planned

*Shell evaluating full flow sked for Capline

*24 U.S. nat gas plants, 12.23 Bcfd, shut - DOE

*10 U.S. nat gas plants, 4.26 Bcfd, at reduced levels - DOE

PIPELINES, OTHER FACILITIES SHUT

*SPR Bryan Mound, Big Hill, Tex; Hackberry, La,

*Shell Houston-to-Houma crude line

*Centennial Pipeline products line

*Portions of ConocoPhillips pipeline system in Texas

*Dixie Pipeline propane line from Texas to Louisiana, Iowa

*Enterprise Cameron Highway and Poseidon offshore crude in Gulf

*Longhorn Pipeline products line

*Portions of Marathon Pipeline system onshore, offshore Gulf Coast

*Enbridge: Four pipelines force majeure

REDUCED RATES

*Plantation pipeline at reduced rates

*Colonial restarts distillate line after Ike, mogas down

(Reporting by Bruce Nichols, Erwin Seba; Editing by Richard Valdmanis)

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