Monroe Energy has brought light back to the sky in Trainer.
Chilling on my front porch last night, I was captivated by the full moon in the southern sky and the fire in the western sky.
For the first time in over six months, there is hard evidence that oil refining is back on the Delaware River. Hundreds of former Conoco Phillips employees have cancelled their unwanted vacations to return to work and many hundred more contractors will earn a nice living doing the heavy lifting to put the pieces together for Monroe to do with the refinery as they see fit.
Monroe Energy isn’t your normal oil refiner. Most of us know a refiner as a company that makes gasoline and home heating oil and delivers it to gas stations that bear their name and to our homes and business to provide heat and hot water.
Beware. You won’t see any Monroe gas stations and they aren’t going to sell you heating oil.
In fact, if Monroe Energy has their way, you won’t see or hear anything about them. Sure, they expect to be an excellent community partner, but you won’t see any Monroe
Energy trucks or gas stations to remind you that they are making gas in Trainer.
By design, Monroe Energy has only one customer, Delta Airlines. On paper, the Monroe Energy business model is genius and has a lot of beneficiaries.
For example, hundreds of employees will benefit with a great paying job in Trainer; the local economy keeps its tax base and supporting businesses; Delta Airlines expects to save thousands of dollars on each flight from the savings they realize by eliminating the jet fuel middleman; Monroe Energy gets to be the first company to execute this new business model and if successful will become a refining game changer.
In layman terms, here is what Monroe Energy is here to do.
- They will make the necessary changes to the refinery to make as much jet fuel as it can. In the past, the money maker was gasoline so the refinery was designed to make as much gasoline as possible. The conversion is what will keep the contractors busy as they retrofit, convert, and install new equipment and piping packages.
- They will send jet fuel to Philadelphia International Airport through direct pipelines and expect to do the same to New York and Atlanta airports where Delta does a lot of flying.
- Since they can’t help but to make gasoline, diesel, home heating oil, and other by products of refining, they expect to trade a lot of those products for jet fuel with other refiners.
- They expect to use domestic oil drilled in North Dakota which requires converting the refinery from equipment designed for foreign oil feed.
Jeffery Warmann is a huge man that could easily be mistaken for an NFL lineman. Monroe Energy is his brainchild and he’s not the executive type sitting on the top floor of a center city board room wearing Armani suits. His modest office is on the ground floor of the plant administration building where the view from his window looks right into the refinery. And, he wears Nomex coveralls like the rest of the rank and file.
Warmann has a history of turning money losing refineries into profit centers. In Monroe Energy’s case, it appears all the stars are lined up perfectly for the launch of a new way to make refining work in our area.
The politicians have committed five years for Monroe Energy to execute their plan. In my opinion, Monroe Energy will be around for a long time and will be remembered for getting its start in Trainer, PA.
Monroe Energy, much success to you and please leave the light on.
I've been waiting for the flame to come back online. I've got to go out and take a picture for the site. I used to see that flame light up the sky every night from my bedroom window.
ReplyDeleteIt is a great that monroe brought jobs back but are they telling u what kind of chemicals we are breathing from that fire smh how about if you research and gain knowledge i did and i feel sorry for trainer and markus hook residence little do they know they will have cancer in a couple of years and wonder how they got it . Here is a hint look at the fire in the sky a nice flame in the moon light that gives you cancer people just dont learn ...smh
ReplyDeleteDid refineries ever tell you what was in the air? The EPA would be happy to share that information with you.
DeleteLet's stop driving cars, buses, trucks, planes, trains, heating our homes, drinking water, eating processed food, and cooking on the grill. That should help with the cancer.
Delta Airlines will fly with fuel made in Trainer or India. If you want to live in America in a place where the air is clean, there are plenty of places to go.
If the flare is your only environmental concern with the refinery, you'd certainly move if you knew what else is behind those gates that could affect you.
It's no secret that refining oil is a dirty business. Thanks to government regulations it's a lot less harmful to you and the environment than it used to be.
Something tells me the flight path over Chester will also have to be altered.
Deletedid they ever tell you that liberal democrats are malcontents and are pathetic in every way
DeleteFlares like that are known as wet pipe systems. They constantly burn natural gas when in normal operations and not flaring. You know that same stuff thay your heater and stove burn. When they are flaring it is a hydrocarbon by-product such as gasolines and very light oils. And they are regulated by the EPA. You must be a tree hugger.
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