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The Scarcity of Hydrochloric Acid -- Anyone Have a Clue What May Be Going On?

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Managing Real Estate Broker with National Land Realty 120358

The scarcity of hydrochloric acid has slowed up the drilling of some oil wells here locally in the Tulsa area.  As many of you already know or not, hydrochloric acid is critical to the oil industry as well as to the dairy industry. 

Hydrochloric acid is used to clean tanks, lines, and containers in the production of oil and milk.  In the oil fields hydrochloric acid is used down hole to clean out the zones.

Evidently several of the plants that produce hydrochloric acid have recently gone out of business, claiming force majeure.  Suppliers are scrounging for product to sell to their regular customers. 

Now, I don't know of any recent natural disasters or political upheavals here in mid-America that would be interfering with the production of hydrochloric acid. 

Does anyone know what is going on?  I know I live in a bubble, but this question has me stumped.  What am I missing here?

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Paul LeMay
Caretaker Property Services - Tulsa, OK

Debbie...not sure why plants are going out of business, I do know that hydrochloric acid is used in some toilet bowl cleaners.  It is very caustic, possibly the green movement to safer and less hazardous products may play into it. 

Dec 09, 2008 02:38 PM
Debbie Durkee
National Land Realty - Tulsa, OK
ALC, CRS -- Land & Country Estates near Tulsa

Janelle -- I had totally forgotten about this blog.  Thanks for your comment.  It's encouraging.

 

Paul -- Your explanation seems more and more plausible.  In this political environment risk taking has been severely curtailed especially because of the EPA.  Good point.

 

I don't even know if this problem is still a problem.  I'll have to check with one of my clients who is an operations manager for one of our big oil companies.

 

 

Aug 25, 2011 02:10 AM
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AuthorBio: Debbie Solano has earned two Masters degrees: 1) an MLS (Masters in Library Science) from SUNY at Albany, School of Library and Information Science, 1978 and 2) an M.Div (Masters in Divinity) from Southern Methodist University, Perkins School of Theology, 1997. Debbie earned her Oklahoma Real Estate license in 1994 and has been a REALTOR full time since 2005. She is a member of the Greater Tulsa Board of REALTORS®(GTAR) and a member of the Northeast Oklahoma Board of REALTORS® (Grand Lake), the Oklahoma Association of REALTORS® (OAR), and the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR). She is also an active member of the American Association of Professional Landmen (AAPL) and the REALTORS® Land Institute (RLI). Her professional real estate designations include: CRS, ABR, AHWD, CHMS, e-PRO, GRI, REOS, and SRES. She currently serves as the Membership Chairperson for the Oklahoma Chapter of the Council of Residential Specialists. Debbie is a Volunteer Visitor in the Pastoral Care Department at St. John Medical Center in midtown Tulsa. She is also a member of the choir at the Church of St. Mary in Brookside.

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