(Updates with Hess Corp) Nov 6 (Reuters) - The gradual recovery of the New York Harbor oil-trading hub from Superstorm Sandy has stalled as two of the area's most important facilities struggled to return to normal. Phillips 66 confirmed that the region's second-largest refinery, the 238,000 barrel-per-day Bayway plant in New Jersey, would likely be shut for another two to three weeks as repairs are carried out, primarily on electrical equipment damaged by saltwater, as Reuters reported earlier. He ss Corp. said on Tuesday there was still no timefarme for resuming operations at the 70, 000 bpd Port Reading refinery. And only half of the facilities at the region's biggest oil terminal, the 16 million barrels IMTT Bayonne, were fully operational, according to co-owner Macquarie Infrastructure Co. It said IMTT was working through the week to ensure the terminal "returns to full operations as quickly as possible and permitted." While more terminals and truck racks resumed operations with commercial power, and tankers plied key waterways, the area remains hobbled one week after Sandy dealt an unprecedented blow to the country's biggest and most important fuel trading center. On the streets of New York and New Jersey, fuel shortages and lengthy gasoline lines showed signs of easing after the military rushed fuel to the region, the government tapped 2 million gallons of its heating fuel reserve and New Jersey instituted rationing by even-odd license plate numbers in a dozen counties. Heating oil supplies were tight in the region, just days before temperatures were expected to drop below freezing. KEY DEVELOPMENTS ON TUESDAY: * HESS CORP said it does not have a timeframe for a full restoration of operations at its 70,000 barrel-per-day refinery in Port Reading, New Jersey. The company r eiterated that power was partially restored at the weekend, allowing it to bring in-plant utility systems back online, which will take several days. It will need to complete an assessment of refinery equipment bef or e r e suming op erations. It said the only terminal that still had suspended truck-rack operations was in Bayonne, while its Brooklyn and Roseton, Ne w York, te r minals had r esum ed marine operations. Marine operations were stil l suspended at Bayonne, Edgewater, Newark and Woodbridge. * COLONIAL PIPELINE said its Linden, New Jersey, hub, the terminus of the 825,000 bpd fuel line from the Gulf of Mexico, was now sending fuel out to eight of its 20 customer terminals, one more than on Monday, when it said it expected five more to resume operations this week. It said commercial power remains stable and emergency generators will stay on site until a new storm front due on Wednesday passes. * MERCINI LADY, a 47,000-tonne clean oil tanker, was heading out of New York harbor after discharging off the southwestern shore of Manhattan, shipping data showed. BP had chartered the Liberian-flagged tanker to carry fuel from Texas to Montreal, but it was later diverted to the New York Harbor after the U.S. government authorized waivers to the Jones Act, allowing non-U.S. vessels to transit between U.S. ports. * KINDER MORGAN, which had resumed limited operations at its Carteret and Perth Amboy terminals in New Jersey on Monday, said about 238 barrels (some 10,000 gallons) of biodiesel leaked from its Carteret terminal into nearby Rum Creek and reached the Arthur Kill waterway. It said the spill was contained within a day of the storm. It has resumed limited marine operations at Carteret and hopes to do so soon for Perth Amboy and Staten Island. KEY DEVELOPMENTS ON MONDAY: * NUSTAR ENERGY LP said it had re-established "limited" pipeline and barge deliveries at its Linden, New Jersey, marine and storage terminal. It previously said the 4.1-million-barrel terminal was severely damaged by Sandy. * IMTT BAYONNE oil tank farm and terminal, which accounts for about a fifth of the harbor's capacity, was only half back to normal by Monday, although damage assessments found that the majority of the facility's piers were ready for use and there had been no oil leaks, according to co-owner Macquarie Infrastructure Co. It gave no time frame for restoring full operations, but said IMTT would work through the week -- including with relevant authorities -- to return to full operations. * PHILLIPS 66 said it expects to resume "normal operations" at its 238,000 bpd Bayway refinery in Linden, New Jersey, in two to three weeks. The plant has been shut since Oct. 29, and sources had said it appeared to sustain serious damage to the electrical equipment after being flooded by Sandy's 14-foot storm surge. Phillips also confirmed it had spilled some 7,700 gallons of fuel. Its terminal at Tremley Point, New Jersey, is expected to be operating at a limited capacity by the end of November. Phillips 66 also said it had restored the refinery's capability to pump existing refined product inventory to the terminal, repaired the refinery's marine dock in order to receive barge shipments of fuels and made arrangements with third-parties to supply fuel to the refinery and terminal through pipelines and marine transport. * BUCKEYE PIPELINE said its Linden line was able to receive fuel from all existing locations and that Colonial Pipeline, Harbor Pipeline and Kinder Morgan's Carteret terminal had all resumed operating into Linden. * COAST GUARD removed restrictions along the Arthur Kill waterway, which separates Staten Island from New Jersey, as long as vessels move slowly along its waters, a Coast Guard agent said. The waterway saw its first oil tanker in a week on Sunday, with the 50,000-tonne Glory Express heading through the channel toward the Kinder Morgan terminal in Carteret. The Arthur Kill is the site of a major cleanup after flooded tankers at Motiva Enterprises' Sewaren, New Jersey, terminal spilled diesel into the water. MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS FROM THE WEEKEND: * DELTA AIR LINES INC's Monroe Energy 185,000 bpd refinery in Trainer, New Jersey, resumed normal operations and is expected to have all units at full rates after a lengthy maintenance turnaround. It was not shut during Sandy. Below is a list of refineries, fuel pipelines and ports impacted by the storm: COMPANY PLANT CAPACITY STATUS (bpd) PBF Energy Delaware City, 190,000 Operations normal. Delaware PBF Energy Paulsboro, New 180,000 Operations normal. Jersey Hess Corp Port Reading, New 70,000 Power partially restored Saturday night. Says still no Jersey timeframe for resuming full operations Philadelphia Philadelphia, 330,000 Company said on Nov. 2 it would be back to normal schedules Energy Solutions Pennsylvania this weekend after delays in crude deliveries. Monroe Energy Trainer, 185,000 All units running normally after turnaround, full rates seen Pennsylvania within several days. Phillips 66 Linden, New Jersey 238,000 Shut down. Phillips 66 says on Nov. 5 it is likely to be two-three weeks to restart. Imperial Oil Ltd Sarnia, Ontario 121,000 Returning to normal service as of Oct. 31 after power outage. NEW YORK HARBOR OIL TERMINALS STILL SHUT BY SANDY: COMPANY CITY STATE CAPACITY (bbls) Update Date Hess Bayonne** NJ 11/6/2012 Hess Newark* NJ 11/6/2012 Motiva Newark NJ 1,113,000 10/31/2012 Motiva Sewaren NJ 5,000,000 10/31/2012 Phillips 66 Tremley Point*** NJ 11/3/2012 Motiva Brooklyn NY 10/31/2012 Motiva Long Island NY 222,000 10/31/2012 Hess Woodbridge* NY 11/6/2012 Hess Edgewater* NJ 11/6/2012 * Suspended marine operations. Hess owns 20 terminals with an aggregate storage capacity of 21 million barrels in its East Coast marketing areas. ** Suspended rack and marine operations *** Phillips 66 said it expected the Tremley Point terminal to resume limited operations by the end of November. TERMINALS WITH REDUCED OPERATIONS: Colonial Pipeline Linden NJ Open, commercial power 11/4/2012 back, serving 7 terminals IMTT Bayonne NJ 16,000,000 Half of the facilities are 11/5/2012 fully operational Motiva Bridgeport CT 1,290,000 Open with reduced 11/4/2012 operations Hess Groton CT 812,185 Process of restarting 11/3/2012 Hess Pennsauken NJ Process of restarting 11/3/2012 Kinder Morgan Carteret, NJ 7,833,080 Generator power, limited 11/5/2012 operations/shipments; marine ops resumed Kinder Morgan Perth Amboy, NJ 3,543,388 Generator power, limited 11/5/2012 operations/shipments; marine ops seen soon Kinder Morgan Staten Island, NJ 2,959,700 Generator power, limited 11/5/2012 operations; hopes to resume marine ops seen soon NuStar Energy Linden, NJ 4.1 mln bbls Restored "limited" pipeline 11/05/2012 and barge deliveries TERMINALS REPORTED OPEN BY COMPANIES COMPANY LOCATION STATE CAPACITY UPDATE AS OF Kinder Morgan Philadelphia PA 11,878,462 11/4/2012 Magellan Midstream Wilmington DE 2,842,000 11/4/2012 Magellan Midstream New Haven CT 4,000,000 11/4/2012 Motiva New Haven CT 1,600,000 11/4/2012 Motiva Baltimore MD 1,100,000 11/4/2012 Motiva Fairfax VA 360,000 11/4/2012 Motiva Richmond VA 210,000 11/4/2012 Motiva Providence RI 1,458,000 11/4/2012 NuStar Energy Paulsboro NJ 90,800 11/4/2012 NuStar Energy Virginia Beach VA 40,000 11/4/2012 NuStar Energy Dumfries VA 11/4/2012 NuStar Energy Piney Point MD 5,403,000 11/4/2012 NuStar Energy Andrews AFB MD 11/4/2012 NuStar Energy Baltimore MD 832,000 11/4/2012 Phillips 66 Riverhead NY 11/4/2012 Hess Brooklyn NY 11/4/2012 BP Carteret NJ 1,445,000 11/4/2012 Hess Perth Amboy NJ 11/6/2012 Hess Roseton NY 11/6/2012 TERMINALS REPORTED OPEN BY DOE: Global Partners Inwood NY 11/4/12 Global Partners Newburgh NY 11/4/12 Global Partners Oyster Bay NY 11/4/12 Castle Port Morris Bronx NY 846,000 11/4/12 Gulf Oil New Haven CT 11/4/12 Northville Industries Port Jefferson NY 11/4/12 Schildwachter Oil Bronx NY 11/4/12 Buckeye Terminals, LLC Linden + NY 4,000,000 11/4/12 Inwood Carbo Industries, Inc. Inwood, Long NY 5,900,000 11/4/12 Island OTHER TERMINALS IN NEW YORK HARBOR AREA: COMPANY LOCATION CAPACITY STATUS Center Point Terminal Company New Jersey, NY Harbor 1,018,300 Unknown CITGO Petroleum Corp. Linden, NJ 3,669,250 Unknown Getty Terminals Corp. New Jersey, NY Harbor 1,018,300 Unknown Getty Terminals Corp. Bronx, NY 23,000 Unknown Gulf Oil, Limited Partnership Linden, NJ 568,374 Unknown Lorco Petroleum Services New Jersey, NY Harbor 476,190 Unknown Metro Terminals Corp. Brooklyn, NY 207,000 Unknown Sprague Energy Corporation Long Island, NY 80,263 Unknown Sunoco Logistics Partners, LP New Jersey, NY Harbor 505,457 Unknown (Reporting by Selam Gebrekidan, Joshua Schneyer, Janet McGurty, Edward McAllister and Jonathan Spicer in New York; Editing by Marguerita Choy, Jim Marshall, Andre Grenon, Leslie Adler and Phil Berlowitz)
Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
