Not really. The vast majority of refineries in the US can't use Texas crude. It's why the idea of shifting to using American oil over imported is laughable. Not only that we have no pipelines from our oil wells to the refineries, so those would have to be built, as well. Basically, it'd take decades and tens to hundreds of billions of dollars to shift from foreign oil to American.
I understand the words you are using and the concept they are conveying, but I'm having a hard time getting around said concept making zero sense, at least to my uninformed brain.
In other words,
There's two types of oil, essentially and I don't remember what they are called. When oil was easy to get we built refineries for that kind. When it got scarce you could only get the other kind.
The US in its infinite wisdom decided it was too expensive to build refineries for the new kind, so what we've been doing is sending the oil we pump to other countries who can refine it, then import the kind we can refine.
The transition to renewables cannot happen fast enough. My brain hurts.
You are correct except for the pipeline requirement as tech is changing.
Haliburton and the like have plans for in field micro refineries, they can easily switch to whole crude or even get it down to J8 which is similar to diesel without the additives, it wouldn't require a pipeline, and one wouldn't really be in the best interest considering how mobile shale-fracking well heads need to be.
There's a startup being funded by guess who that's aiming to do just this
Not really. The vast majority of refineries in the US can't use Texas crude. It's why the idea of shifting to using American oil over imported is laughable. Not only that we have no pipelines from our oil wells to the refineries, so those would have to be built, as well. Basically, it'd take decades and tens to hundreds of billions of dollars to shift from foreign oil to American.
I understand the words you are using and the concept they are conveying, but I'm having a hard time getting around said concept making zero sense, at least to my uninformed brain.
In other words,
There's two types of oil, essentially and I don't remember what they are called. When oil was easy to get we built refineries for that kind. When it got scarce you could only get the other kind.
The US in its infinite wisdom decided it was too expensive to build refineries for the new kind, so what we've been doing is sending the oil we pump to other countries who can refine it, then import the kind we can refine.
The transition to renewables cannot happen fast enough. My brain hurts.
You are correct except for the pipeline requirement as tech is changing.
Haliburton and the like have plans for in field micro refineries, they can easily switch to whole crude or even get it down to J8 which is similar to diesel without the additives, it wouldn't require a pipeline, and one wouldn't really be in the best interest considering how mobile shale-fracking well heads need to be.
There's a startup being funded by guess who that's aiming to do just this
https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2024-06-06/texas-startup-hopes-4th-times-a-charm-to-build-first-big-us-oil-refinery-since-1977