Replies to post #26612 on MMEX Resources Corp (MMEX)

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Chris Moore of Raven Petroleum stated in a press release:

Moore added that the facility will pump water from over 4,000 feet underground and recycle used water using an on-site desalination plant. The EIA says that refineries use 1 to 2½ gallons of water to create 1 gallon of refined product.

There is a problem with the quantity of water needed to operate the MMEX "proposed" Oil Refinery stated by Hanks and the reality of what is actually needed.

I was reading: http://www.bizjournals.com/sanantonio/news/2017/03/14/energy-executive-q-a-ceo-talks-about-plans-to.html

We already met with the water board, and they told us that they have ranchers out there that use 2,000 to 3,000 gallons per minute and that your normal garden hose is 5 gallons per minute. So 100 gallons per minute, in perspective, it’s not very big of a deal. That’s great because water is a special resource in West Texas as it is everywhere.

I did some research about how much water a oil refinery uses and my numbers don't come close to 100 gallons per minute.

Here is something interesting - for a oil refinery there needs to be a fresh water supply of up to 2.5 gallons per gallon of crude refined. https://www3.epa.gov/region9/waterinfrastructure/oilrefineries.html

There are 42 gallons per barrel of crude oil.

So 50,000 barrels of crude per day.

That is 2.1 million gallons of crude processed each day (50,000 x 42 = 2,100,000).

That would be 2.5 x 2,100,000 = 5,250,000 gallons of water per day to operate the refinery.

I don't know how much water is available in that area - but it will require a great deal more than 144,000 Gallons per day as Hanks suggests.

Jack Hanks says they will only use 100 gallons per minute.

Let's say the plant operate 24 hours per day - that is 1,440 minutes each day - or at 100 gallons per minute - 144,000 Gallons per day. Compare that to 5,250,000 gallons per day.

The EPA stated from 1 to 2.5 gallons of water per Gallon of crude refined - so using 1 Gallon instead of 2.5 we get the following: 2,100,000 Gallon of Water per day for a 50,000 barrel per day refinery.

The magical refinery that that will use only 0.068 gallons of water per gallon of crude oil to operate the refinery.

Hanks might want to explain how he is using so much less water to operate the refinery.

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