Oil facility operations in Louisiana appeared to be mostly unfazed Aug. 16 by recent historic, deadly flooding.
Only two units were affected by the flooding: a 110,000 bpd crude distillation unit at Exxon’s 502,500 bpd Baton Rouge, LA, refinery and the 45,000 bpd hydrocracker at Motiva’s 230,000 bpd Covent, LA, refinery, which was previously shut. The Baton Rouge CDU was shut Aug. 16 as flooding disrupted operations at an associated LPG storage facility, according to Reuters. Flooding was reported around the Convent hydrocracker on Aug. 12 in conjunction with clean-up efforts following a fire at the unit on Aug. 11, according to Reuters. All other monitored units at the Convent and Baton Rouge refineries operated normally Aug. 16, according to Genscape.
No other refinery units monitored by Genscape were known to be affected by flooding as of Aug. 16. 
Most of the oil facilities in southeast Louisiana are located in 500-year floodplains, which have a 0.2 percent chance of flood hazard, according to the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency's National Flood Hazard Layer.
The unprecedented flooding, that began late last week in some parts of Louisiana, resulted in the deaths of 10 people, ABC News said in an article on Aug. 16. On Aug. 12, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards declared a state of emergency for the state of Louisiana due to flooding, according to the state’s website. A spokesman for the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness was not immediately available to comment.
No crude-by-rail deliveries were received at St. James, LA, terminals Aug. 12 to Aug. 14, according to Genscape. However, three-day periods of inactivity are not uncommon. A unit train unloaded at the NuStar facility on Aug. 15, according to Genscape.
Crude flows on the Marathon-operated 1.2mn bpd Capline Pipeline originating in St. James were also unaffected.
St. James waterborne shipments were also seemingly unhampered by high water. Between Aug. 12 and Aug. 15, three vessels loaded about 1.185mn bbls from St. James, and four vessels delivered about 1.284mn bbls into the crude hub. 
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