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The beautiful Firemouth Cichlid is known for its distinctive shape and fiery red colors.
The Firemouth Cichlid Thorichthys meeki (previously Cichlasoma meeki) is one of the most popular cichlids due to its vibrant red coloring, pleasant demeanor, and easy care. This is an extremely beautiful fish and fun to keep. The Firemouth is a relatively small fish when compared to many other Central American cichlids, only reaching about 6.5" (17 cm) and is extremely laterally compressed. Its body has a unique 'teardrop' shape characterized by a steeply sloping forehead emphasizing its pointed snout.
The Firemouth is so named due to the fiery coloration on the underside of its mouth and throat. In addition, it has a vivid red coloration on the belly extending from the mouth to the base of the tail. The rest of the body is generally blue-gray with several black blotches while the fins are brown and streaked with blue. Slight differences in coloration are present on particular fish depending on where the fish originated.
This is a great fish for both beginning fish keepers and advance aquarists alike. It is generally a peaceful cichlid and makes for a suitable addition to a large community tank. It's best kept with its own kind and other large and similar tempered species. The one time when these fish tend to become more than marginally aggressive is when they are attempting to spawn. During breeding they can turn aggressive towards other fish and are especailly threatening towards smaller members of their own species.
During spawning the male Firemouth Cichlid is even more vivid in appearance as he displays an impressive bluff. A 'bluff' is an aggressive stance where he inflates his fiery red throat sac and gill covers to impress females and ward off competitors. It has been discovered by ethologists, scientists who study animal behavior, that just this red coloring alone is intimidating to other fishes!
Firemouths like to burrow on occasion, so it's best to provide a substrate of fine sand for them to dig and nest in. They will also appreciate a number of hiding places and caves formed out of rocks, wood, or any other type of aquarium decoration. Although they like to have some living plants in their tank, make sure the plants are potted so as to avoid them being uprooted if the Firemouth happens to dig around their roots. Place hardy plants, such as Sagittaria, around the inside perimeter leaving an open area in the center for swimming.
For Information on keeping freshwater fish, see:
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Firemouth Ciclid flaring his gills out!
The video takes a little bit of time to finally start showing the Firemouths, but when it gets there it is spectactular! The filmed aquarium has two Firemouths, both displaying brilliant reds along the underside of their bodies. At one point one of the Firemouths flares out his gills in a "bluffing" maneuver. Really cool to see!
- Size of fish - inches: 6.7 inches (16.99 cm)
- Minimum Tank Size: 30 gal (114 L)
- Temperament: Semi-aggressive
- Aquarium Hardiness: Very Hardy
- Temperature: 70.0 to 75.0° F (21.1 to 23.9° C)
- Aquarist Experience Level: Beginner
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Habitat: Distribution / Background
The Firemouth Cichlid Thorichthys meeki (previously Cichlasoma meeki) was described by Brind in 1918. They are found in Central America; Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. They have also been introduced into the continental USA, Hawaii, Singapore, and Colombia. Though these fish are still imported on occasion, but most available specimens are captive-bred fish. The species is not listed on the IUCN Red List.
They inhabit the middle and bottom areas of slow moving rivers, ponds, and canals with sandy or muddy bottoms. They stay close to vegetation near the shore where they feed on algae along with some meaty foods.
- Scientific Name: Thorichthys meeki
- Social Grouping: Groups
- IUCN Red List: NE - Not Evaluated or not listed
The body of the Firemouth Cichlid is strongly compressed laterally with a sloping forehead emphasizing a sharply pointed mouth and accented by broad and pointed dorsal and anal fins. They are known to reach up to about 6.5" (17 cm) in the wild, making them a moderately sized Central American cichlid, though they tend to be a bit smaller in captivity with males reaching about 5" (12.7 cm) and females about 4" (10.15 cm). They have a life span of about 10 - 15 years.
The eponymous coloring of the Firemouth cichlid presents along the underside of the fish, extending from the mouth along the body to the base of the tail. The rest of the body is generally blue-gray with several black blotches while the fins are a light brown accented with streaks of metallic blue. Note that depending upon where the particular fish came from or where its parentage originated, it may have some slight coloration differences. Males have more pointed dorsal and anal fins and are more intensely colored, especially during breeding.
All cichlids, along with some saltwater fish such as wrasses and parrotfish, share a trait of a well-developed pharyngeal set of teeth located in the throat, along with their regular teeth. Cichlids have spiny rays in the back parts of the anal, dorsal, pectoral, and pelvic fins to help discourage predators. The front part of these fins are soft and perfect for precise positions and effortless movements in the water as opposed to fast swimming.
Cichlids have one nostril on each side while other fish have 2 sets. To sense "smells" in the water, they suck water in and expel the water right back out after being "sampled" for a short or longer time, depending on how much the cichlid needs to "smell" the water. This feature is shared by saltwater damselfish and cichlids are thought to be closely related.
- Size of fish - inches: 6.7 inches (16.99 cm) - These fish can get up to 6.69 inches (17 cm) in length, though are usually smaller in the aquarium with males reaching about 5 inches (12.7 cm) and females getting up to about 4 inches (10.15 cm).
- Lifespan: 15 years
Firemouths are a great choice for the beginner cichlid keeper in part due to their adaptability to a wide variety of environments. Their natural environments tend to vary widely in terms of water conditions, temperature, pH levels, etc, and the same adapatability which allowed them to thrive in so many disparate environments in the wild aids them in being able to similarly thrive in many different types of aquariums. They are extremely easy to feed and will take a variety of foods. They are also a more tolerant and peaceful cichlid and are able to get along well in some types of community tanks.
- Aquarium Hardiness: Very Hardy
- Aquarist Experience Level: Beginner
Since they are omnivorous the Firemouth Cichlid will generally eat all kinds of flake, fresh, and live foods. A varied diet is an important part of keeping your fish in good health, so it is recommended that you provide your fish with a high quality flake food or pellet everyday. In addition, vegetables such as blanched spinanch and cucumber should be offered regularily and meaty foods such as brine shrimp or blood worms should be occasionally offered as a treat.
- Diet Type: Omnivore
- Flake Food: Yes
- Tablet Pellet: Yes
- Live foods (fishes, shrimps, worms): Some of Diet - Live foods will incourage spawning.
- Vegetable Food: Most of Diet
- Meaty Food: Some of Diet
- Feeding Frequency: Several feedings per day
Firemouth Cichlids are fairly easy to care for provided their water is kept clean. Aquariums are closed systems and regardless of size all will need some maintenance. With home aquariums the nitrate and phosphates build up over time and the water hardness increases due to evaporation. Because fish can be sensitive to pollutants and pH instabilty, it is important that at least 15- 20% of the tank water is replaced weekly, especially if the tank is densely stocked. When doing the weekly water changes always use a gravel cleaner to make sure all of the decomposing organic matter that has built up is removed. The majority of of problems that occur with tropical fish tanks usually come down to one cause: decomposing organic matter!
When cleaning the tank, scrap view panes of algae but keep a good growth of algae to be used as supplemental food source for the Firemouth.
- Water Changes: Weekly
A minimum 30 gallon aquarium is suggested for a pair, though a larger tank would be needed if keeping several. They require good water movement along with strong and efficient filtration. Provide a substrate of fine sand and plenty of hiding places among rocks and wood. Plants are appreciated but should be hardy, such as Sagittaria. Place the plants around the inside perimeter leaving an open area in the center for swimming. These fish enjoying doing a bit of burrowing and rearranging the substrate of the tank, so be sure your plants are potted so as to protect their roots.
The Firemouth has some salt tolerance and can be kept in slightly brackish water conditions. However, it is not suited to a fully brackish water tank. It can tolerate a salinity that is about 10% of normal a saltwater tank, a specific gravity of less than 1.0002, though it prefers to live in fresh water.
- Minimum Tank Size: 30 gal (114 L)
- Substrate Type: Sand
- Lighting Needs: Moderate - normal lighting
- Temperature: 70.0 to 75.0° F (21.1 to 23.9° C)
- Breeding Temperature: - 75 - 78.8° F (24 - 26° C)
- Range ph: 6.5-8.0
- Hardness Range: 8 - 15 dGH
- Brackish: Sometimes - Can tolerate up a salinity of about 10% of a normal saltwater tank or with a specific gravity of less than 1.0002.
- Water Movement: Moderate
- Water Region: All - Prefers middle to bottom.
The Firemouth Cichlids can get along fine in a community tank filled with tankmates of similar size as the Firemouth. they are not usually aggressive except when spawning. When spawning they become a bit more aggressive and territorial and will chase off and potentially kill any tankmate they perceive as invading their territory. It is recommended to keep an eye on spawning Firemouths as well as their tankmates and, if necessary, to remove any threatened tankmates. Firemouths are monogamous and like to pair off and form strong nuclear families and are excellent parents to their fry. It is possible to keep more than a single pair of Firemouths, but it is only recommended to do so if their tank is fairly large. They like to burrow and rearrange the substrate, especially when spawning, so keep an eye on your plants to ensure they don't become uprooted or damaged.
- Temperament: Semi-aggressive
- Compatible with:
- Same species - conspecifics: Yes
- Peaceful fish (): Monitor
- Semi-Aggressive (): Monitor
- Aggressive (): Monitor
- Large Semi-Aggressive (): Monitor
- Large Aggressive, Predatory (): Monitor
- Slow Swimmers & Eaters (): Monitor
- Shrimps, Crabs, Snails: Threat - is aggressive
- Plants: Threat
The male has a more pointed dorsal and anal fins and is more intensely colored, especially during breeding. Males also have a pointed genital papilla which is blunt on females.
The Firemouth Cichlids are egg layers and regularly breed in captivity. They are tricky to sex however, so it is easiest to simply have 6 or so in a tank and let them pair off themselves. Once paired they form a monogamous nuclear family and are excellent and quite prolific parents.
The breeding water should be neutral with a pH of 7.0, medium hard at about 10° dGH, and have temperatures between 75 - 78.8° F (24 - 26° C). The female spawns 100-500 eggs on carefully cleaned rocks. Once hatched, the fry become free swimming in about a week. They are herded into pits in the substrate by the parents and ferociously guarded by both parents. The parents may actually raise several broods per year. See more about cichlid breeding in: Breeding Freshwater Fish: Cichlids.
- Ease of Breeding: Easy
These fish are subject to infections as well as other diseases that can affect all freshwater fish. One common problem is Ich. Since the Firemouth can tolerate higher temperatures, one available remedy to Ich is to simply elevate the temperature of the tank up to 86° F (30° C) for a few days. If this rememdy fails, you can try a copper based medicine bought either at your local pet store or from an online retailer. Be sure to comply with the manufacturer's recommendations and instructions to obtain the best results.
As with most fish the Firemouth Cichlids are prone to skin flukes and other parasitic infestations (protozoa, worms, etc.), fungal infections, and bacterial infections. It is recommended to read up on the common tank diseases. Knowing the signs and catching and treating them early makes a huge difference. For information about freshwater fish diseases and illnesses, see Aquarium Fish Diseases and Treatments.
As a general rule, be cautious when adding anything to the tank. Any foreign material (alive, dead, organic, synthetic, whatever) is a potential carrier of harmful bacteria, fungus, parasites, chemicals, etc. To minimize the risk of introducing a harmful element into your aquarium, it is recommended you thoroughly clean and disinfect or quarantine any additions to the tank.
The Firemouth Cichlid is readily available both online and in fish stores and is moderately priced.
- Animal-World References: Freshwater Fish and Plants
- Dr. Rüdiger Riehl and Hans A. Baensch, Aquarium Atlas Vol. 1, Publisher Hans A. Baensch, 1991
- George Zurlo, David Schleser, Cichlids (Complete Pet Owner's Manual), Barron's Edu Series, 2005
- Richard F. Stratton, The Guide to Owning Central American Cichlids, T.F.H. Publications, Inc., 2001
- Neale Monks, Brackish Water Fishes: An Aquarist's Guide to Identification, Care & Husbandry, TFH Publications, 2006
- Glen S. Axelrod, Brian M. Scott, Neal Pronek, Encyclopedia Of Exotic Tropical Fishes For Freshwater Aquariums, TFH Publications, 2005
- Richard F. Stratton, The Guide to Owning Cichlids, T.F.H. Publications, Inc., 2002
- Thorichthys meeki (Brind, 1918) Firemouth cichlid, Fishbase.org
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"Daddy… Wet's pway One-Two-Fwee, okay? OKAY! One! Two! NINE!"
Games with young kids = their rules. It's okay though, I fully expect to lose every game. Always. I lost, so what! At least he's learning his numbers and I'm laughing my ass off.
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Laurie says:
SO cute!
I have to watch it when I hug him that I don't love-moosh him.
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Nice! My little man is just about two, will be in a week, and he is constantly making up little games. His favorite game is when he counts to three and then jumps on my face and pummels me. Not sure where he learned it from, but I suspect Mama Bear put him up to it the first time and from there it just kind of stuck.
Ha ha! I think it would be so hilarious if Lucas started doing this to me that I would mind it. Ha ha ha ha ha! Okay, maybe I wouldn't mind it as much. So cute.
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BAhaha! My little sister used to do something like this. Her version of "One, two, three, GO!" was "One, one, one, one, (repeat as desired), SEVEN!!"
Amazing! I probably suck as bad at One-One-One-One-…SEVEN as bad as One-Two-Fwee.
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Sounds like my 20 month old playing with his magnetic numbers and letters. He points them out and names them randomly – numbers are either two or three, always in order, never more or less. Letters have a few more options, but are also randomly assigned. Actually, colours follow suit – every first guess is blue, then green, then purple. Adorable anyways!
Ha ha ha ha ha! Awesome! I love it when they argue with you, quite sternly, that a colour, number or letter is one that it is not.
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We spent Christmas with my parents. My 3-year-old wanted to play board games with Grandpa. That's mildly complicated, because my dad is blind. They worked out a system, though. She would read Scrabble letters to him. Then she hauled out Tribond. He would hold up a card. "Is this a good card?" "Yes!" she'd exclaim. They kept this up for an hour. She made up rules for every game.
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I LOVE this. He clearly knows what comes after two but chooses a different number!
My 2 year old knows his numbers and letters and I was convinced he was color-blind…until one day with my mother, he named all the colors perfectly for HER. When I got him home again and ask him for colors, everything is YELLOW!
They like to tease us as much as we like to tease them >.<
Ha ha! YES!!! I'm a designer so color is very near and dear to me, and since Charlie is partially colorblind, I'd recently been wondering whether Lucas is or if he's just getting used to the words. We'll see, I don't really care, but I'm curious about it.
I CAN tell sometimes that something is "blue" just because he goddamn wants it to be!
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My kid just said entry…?
Brayden, good job counting to eleven. Can you count 1 to 15?"
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He's a pro! Watch out, he'll have you wrapped around his little finger in no time (if it hasn't happened already). Ha ha!
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Me: "Darling, ask your grandpa how he feels"
Ane (almost 2 years): "Fine, thanks".
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We play this game called "Butta Face" its when you are out in public and you suddenly stop walking and yell Butta Face and one of the kids has to run into your butt..face first. Its midly disturbing to others, but hilarious to us.
Drew says:
My 2 1/2 year old when he was working on his numbers would go 1…2…3…8910! Now he's reliably getting up to about 14, the he occasionally throws in an eleventeen, or numberteen.
Eleventeen may just be my favorite number. But numberteen is a new one on me and is rising fast in the charts for me. Ha ha! Amazing!
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How Pete Seeger Influenced the Way We Eat Today
Folk legend Pete Seeger was known for his music and his activism—but also loved food, for how it brought people together and, of course, how it tasted
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Scholarship Gala Across the River
On Saturday, April 2, 2011, the Burlington County College Foundation will host the "Scholarship Gala Across the River" at the Hyatt Regency Philadelphia at Penn's Landing. Funds raised during this evening of dinner and dancing will benefit deserving college students with scholarships. We hope you can join us!
This gala will feature delicious food, live music and dancing featuring the Sid Miller Band. This event will also be a fun-filled opportunity to connect with fellow friends of Burlington County College. It is sure to be a night worth remembering! To download a copy of our invitation, please click here.
Raffle tickets will be available for chances to win a classic 1986 Cadillac Fleetwood, which was generously donated by the Votta family to help raise money for scholarships. Please click here to learn more.
The raffle will be held on July 12th, 2011 at the grand opening of the Center for Culinary Arts, Hospitality & Tourism in Mt. Holly. Raffle tickets to win the car cost only $10 each or 12 raffles for $100. The car is in excellent condition and has under 12,000 miles on it. It has been appraised as having a value of up to $9,500.
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One more to tide you over until I get all the other photos sorted.
My oldest is a Weeping Angel, youngest is the TARDIS, and I'm Sally Sparrow.
My oldest wore the makeup off her arm before we even left for Trick-or-treating. I didn't bother putting any on the palm of her hand because I knew it wouldn't last.
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You live in it, why not chill on it? Tina came on down to the party on Wednesday night and showed us her latest pillow designs. It is high time we give her a shoutout.
Laidback is Tina's creation and a dream realized after designing for big guys like Brooks Brothers, Tommy Hilfiger, J Crew and Phat Farm. Going out on her own, she has created funky, loud pillows that will please your soul and speak to your inner child. Call this pop culture inspired home decor.
Laidback's pillows are designed like jeans and meant to get better with time. Each one is silk screened and printed on 100% cotton denim and includes a metal zipper down the side in Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers sort of way. There are three sizes, prices are excellent and they can be ordered through her online shop.
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Hey, these are original and look like fun and they're affordable. No other comments on them? Everyone must be stuck at the dead bug blankets....
Great to see your stuff on Apartment Therapy, Tina. Yaaaayy!
Yay, Tina! The pillows look great and I just got some for my niece for Christmas.
Can't wait to see what you'll dream up next.
What a great idea! And an excellent way to give a room a bit of personality.
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These pillows totally Rock!
They are like your favorite jeans(Diesel,Seven..)well made,comfy & hot! Absolutely original, your friends will love'em.They will update your digs to look like rock star's loft (before they trash it:)
Go get them before Sienna Miller or Nicole Ritchie snatch'em all
I just took my Laidback "She Rocks" and "He Rocks" pillows home and they add a great punch to my living room. Tina is an inspiration and has got some great ideas up her sleeve! I can't wait to see where Laidback is headed. So excited!
Laidback pillows are terrific! They are beautifully designed extremely well crafted. The use of a "favorite" fabric like denim - regular, camo, vinyl, etc. - with exposed zippers is genius, and can work for practically anyone. I expect to see Laidback pillows in many stores, including my own. Congratulations to Tina!
LOVE,LOVE,LOVE the pillows!
Excellent idea. My 2 girls 7 & 8 years old loves the fly girl pillows. They think they are "sooooo cool".
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Snuggle with style. I absolutely love the feel of these pillows! They're a hit with my teenagers. I'm sharing the love as a gift to some friends.
Well, Well, Well. They look like comfortable pillows. I can't wait to get one. Go baby girl
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Projects with The Daily
PBS National Projects
- American Masters
- Great Performances
- Mission US
- Make 'Em Laugh
- Teh Internets (onine original documentary)
- Worse Than War
- Secrets of the Dead
- The Music Instinct
- Get The Math
- Cry for Help
- Mysterious Human Heart
WNET / PBS Local Projects
- Reel New York Film Festival
- Rolling
- Jews of New York
- Reel 13
- SundayArts
- Live Web Cast with Mark Bittman
Writing, appearances, projects for fun, etc.
Projects for The Daily
Role: Interactive Producer (freelance Tenure: May 2012-August 2012)
Description: acting as point for daily issue production between editorial, photo, and design, producing issue to spec and developing new features for breaking news. Ensured issue met all QA standards before 5 AM publication. Produced approximately 75 issues total, about 50 of which included dual orientation design for both vertical and horizontal views on the iPad, all of which utilized bespoke digital design.
Role: Producer / Project Lead
Goals: Create a one-off magazine style application to showcase the coolest and most cutting edge technology from 2012 in conjunction with The Daily's tech editors.
Production Responsibilities: Manage production designers and designers to create layouts that conform with editorial's vision, develop a browser based share mechanism for integration with social media, utilize SCRUM with developers to update and release a new version of the app, manage all editorial and marketing deliverables, acting as point for product as a whole.
Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gadget-guide/id458967853?mt=8
PBS Projects for a National Audience
Goal: Transform the American Masters Web site into a content destination with full episodes and educational companion content for an ongoing series.
Production Responsibilities: Identify full episodes, outtakes, and other video content around each episode. Streamline a work flow pattern that includes standard companion content with each episode delivered for broadcast (timelines, essays ect). Redesign the site and re-write all content to be optimized for SEO. When the opportunity presents itself in situations where we own the content, drive content based campaigns such as the "LENNONYC podcast" and the "Remembering Lennon" UGC campaign for the PBS arts initiative.
Goal: Transform the Great Performances Web site into a content destination with full episodes and educational companion content for an ongoing series.
Production Responsibilities: Relaunch the site in a fully optimized CMS. Identify episodic video content and full episodes with streaming rights. Design new online episode packaging to conform to PBS standards. Work with the press team to create additional companion content and leverage cross promotional opportunities.
URL: pbs.org/gperf
Goal: Create a site to present an interactive online role-playing game for use in the classroom, Mission US, create mini-game extras, a streamlined teachers resources section, and a user-generated video component for teachers and classes to share their experiences.
Production Responsibilities: Lead the design for all sections of the site, debug the main game client with a 3rd party, lead the development of a quiz mini-game, design information architecture for the teacher's resources section, develop and implement concept for a video submission section, develop a plan to scale the site to include further 'missions' in the future.
URL: mission-us.org
Goal: Create a site with the dual function of promoting the broadcast premiere of a miniseries and create a original content destination for PBS viewers.
Production Responsibilities: Work with the producers to identify outtake extras that we can stream online. Design and optimize the site for SEO. Commission essays and write polls. Create an original online episode using themes from the series.
URL: pbs.org/makeemlaugh
*Teh Internets (original online episode for Make 'Em Laugh)
Goal: To create an original, entertaining documentary on Internet humor as an online original companion piece to Make 'Em Laugh.
Production Responsibilities: Writer and Producer for the episode. Hire director and production crew. Identify and schedule 29 different comedians using the internet today including, Michael Showalter, Jenny Slate, Ze Frank, Chelsea Peretti and more. Write and produce interstitial skits for the host of the program, Amy Sedaris. Ensure that the program meets all PBS standards.
URL: Due to scalability issues with PBS' video system over the past two years, this episode is not currently available.
Goal: Create a site that is an original content destination with the full episode available alongside companion content, while promoting the original book.
Production Responsibilities: Design a site using existing branding that is SEO optimized. Identify and approach key content partners and organizations to contribute original work to the site. Identify excerpts from the book that effectively communicate and elaborate on the central topics of the documentary. Run a social media give-away via twitter to promote broadcast.
Goal: Create a site for an ongoing series to promote tune in and present full episodic content.
Production Responsibilities: Design site to fit within our CMS and optimize for SEO. Create a social media presence on Facebook and optimize to promote tune-in and site content. Streamline a work flow for the creation of episode companion content.
URL: pbs.org/secrets
Goal: Create a web site that presents original online content, promotes tune-in, presents lesson plans to teachers, and engages viewers in a unique way to make them think about universal music concepts.
Production Responsibilities: Update the original interactive proposal to conform with current technology and trends, identify 'video modules' to serve as original online content, design the information architecture and three interactive widgets for the educational section for teachers, identify and partner with a company to create a user generated music composition contest that promoted the program's concept and tune-in for the premiere.
Goal: Create a web site that delivers a fully interactive educational experience for use in the classroom that utilizes clips from the program and 6 original activities to test students knowledge of math concepts.
Production Responsibilities: Create a design that elaborates on the standard CMS features but are optimized for a static site. Technical producer for all content and interactives.
URL: thirteen.org/get-the-math
Goal: Create a site to promote tune-in for the documentary premiere, as well as stream the documentary and present companion content and educational resources.
Production Responsibilities: Design the site. Create an original video featuring the station president highlighting the importance of the topic of teen suicide. Re-purpose original reporting and research from the documentary as original online content and essays. Assemble a list of partner organizations and resources for parents and teens looking for help dealing with depression.
URL: pbs.org/cryforhelp
Goal: Create a web site that promotes tune-in for the premiere broadcast, serves as an evergreen educational resource for information on heart health and teacher resources for using the documentary in the classroom, present the full documentary miniseries streaming online, and create valuable interactive companion content.
Production Responsibilities: Direct and commission writing for a healthy heart guide, spec and develop a flash application that provides a 3D tour of the heart, encode all video, develop and execute creation of additional companion content, direct all design, ensure the site meets all PBS standards.
WNET / PBS Projects for a Local New York City Audience
Goal: Develop a site to catalog and present all films for 2 seasons of the Reel New York Film Festival.
Production Responsibilities: Develop a scale-able design as films accumulate, determine which films we can stream online, video and design coordinate assets with the film makers for posting, write and edit all content.
URL: thirteen.org/reelny (note: due to relaunch efforts on thirteenorg, the original design has been majorly altered)
Goal: Develop a site to present the documentary streaming and compliant with all accessible media standards, create a forum for disabled viewers to share their story, create companion essays on topics related to disability.
Production Responsibilities: Direct design, develop a tool for user story submissions that encompasses a variety of media types, research and implement an accessible media player for the documentary, edit and commission all companion content and essays.
URL: thirteen.org/rolling (note: due to relaunch effort for thirteen.org the original design is no longer available)
Goal: Create a site to present the full documentary and optimize all segments for SEO.
Production Responsibilities: Direct design, parse documentary for subject matter, write and edit all copy.
Goal: Develop a new site for a new Staurday night movie program that contains an interactive poll for a weekly short film contest.
Production Responsibilities: Direct design, coordinate all assets for the weekly contest, monitor live results and implement any means to make the contest results more secure and accurate, write and coordinate assets to announce the weekly movie lineup.
URL: thirteen.org/reel13 (note: the site had a design relaunched since my time as producer)
Goal: Create a site that presents a weekly arts program in an online video-magazine format with a calendar featuring things to do in New York City and a regularly updated blog of art, music, and theater reviews.
Production Responsibilities: Identify and hire talent for the blog, coordinate blog topics with the broadcast editorial calendar, edit all writing, write video descriptions optimized for SEO, direct design for the web site's launch, edit an ongoing calendar and create work flow for data entry, and identify opportunities for content partnerships online.
URL: thirteen.org/sundayarts (note: I launched and managed this site for the first two years, the design has since changed and the blog was discontinued due to budgeting restrictions)
*Live Web Cast With Mark Bittman
Goal: Develop a Web site and program where Mark Bittman answers reader questions via a live Web cast.
Production Responsibilities: Develop a mechanism for user submissions, monitor submissions during the live cast, develop branding concept for this one-off event, implement the site and evergreen all content.
URL: thirteen.org/bittman
Personal Projects/Blogging/Appearances ect.
A blog I curate, co-created with my friend Kyle Matthews, who designed the logo. This blog has received a good amount of press, some of which you can see here.
URL: zeroviews.biz
In Fall 2010, I was interviewed for NPR's on the media as an expert on unwatched YouTube videos. Hear the full story here.
A site I designed as a destination for silly GIFs and to induce seizures.
URL: ohdang.biz
A blog I designed, wrote for, and edited for about 4 years. For a while it had a small cult following and was picked up by Gawker, Radar Online and other well known online publications. I let the hosting on this expire since it seemed unreasonable to keep paying to keep a live archive. Writing samples from this period in my life are available, but I'm not sure why anyone would want to see these now. There are a couple funny pieces I don't mind showing off though.
I have created short fiction, essays, and larger features for various blogs and publications. Samples available on request.


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Cusp of fame, paintbrush in hand: David Bowie at home in 1972
Imagine going along to a shoot with a member of 'rock royalty' and finding him immersed in a spot of home decorating. That is indeed the scene photographer Michael Putland came across when he met David Bowie at his home in Beckenham, South London, 40 years ago.
Luckily for Michael, David was determined to finish the task in hand and these images capture a brief glimpse of a time before his rapid rise to stardom.
Here was a pivotal point in Bowie's transformation from the lighter pop of his previous album "Hunky Dory" through the release of the single "Starman" in April — not yet the massive hit it was to become later in the year — and the album "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars," released 40 years ago this week.
Incidentally, for those familiar with the album artwork you will notice that David is posed wearing the same two-piece outfit on the front cover of Ziggy Stardust as half way up his stepladder.
Here was Bowie, still a cult artist best known for his one hit wonder "Space Oddity" painting his house, yet within weeks he would transform into a superstar.
Editor's note: Getty Images Photo Editor II Jon Wilton scanned some of these David Bowie-at-home images for the first time this week, in anticipation of the 40th anniversary of Bowie's album, "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars." We're glad he did!


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When Anna Deavere Smith began adapting interviews concerning pressing issues for her one-woman stage verbatim documentaries, she really started something. This pack also turns their transcribed coverage into musicals: "Let Me Ascertain You" is the stage-documentary result of what they learned looking closely at the porn industry. The songs are by Michael Friedman, their most prolific (and overrated) tunesmith, and Jill Sobule. They swear there will also be prizes, but will there be a booby prize?
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Naperville, IL, United States
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About this event
Symbols are universal. There is no language barrier or necessary written translation. However, as simple and as universally understood as the plus sign is, the definition or meaning can be vastly different. During TEDxNaperville, we will be exploring the "+" and what it means to you, to us, and to other cultures across the globe.
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Gunner Branson
Gunner Branson has over 20 years experience in commercial real estate, professional services sales, product innovation and marketing. As President & CEO of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Managers (NAREIM), an association of companies engaged in the real estate investment management business in the United States, he leads the discussion on the future of real estate. Before joining NAREIM in 2011, Gunner worked for over 25 years in commercial real estate, sales, strategy, product innovation and marketing. In addition to holding leadership roles at companies such as GE Capital Real Estate and Heller Financial, as a consultant he worked with companies such as Jones Lang LaSalle, Wells Fargo and Fidelity to develop new markets and new products.
John Coyle
Growing up in Detroit, Michigan, John Coyle became a member of the famed Wolverine Sports Club and began a lifelong love affair with both cycling and speed skating. His cycling career led to performances at the highest levels of the sport, competing in over 1500 bike races over a 30+ year racing career, including a top ten finish in the world cycling championships. John also spent a decade on the national speed skating team, competing in 9 world championships, winning 3 world medals, and winning a silver medal in short-track speed skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics. John's corporate resume proves equally riveting: his strategic consulting career included clients Goldman Sachs and Enron. Following a two-day debrief by the FBI in the wake of the Enron meltdown, John joined U.S. Cellular® to lead a highly successful multi-year customer experience strategy. Discovering his passion for innovation and transformative change, John recently joined Maddock Douglas where he helps catapult services, products and ideas to market across a diverse portfolio of innovative companies. Coyle graduated from Stanford University's D-school with a degree in product design and an MBA from Kellogg. He serves as head coach for local area Speed Skating Clubs, and as an expert commentator for NBC Olympics every four years.
Rhon Daguro
Rhon is founder and CEO of Nervana, a digital design and touch menu technology company. His career has been focused on helping visionaries launch new companies and products, and re-imagine new innovations for every day challenges. He has worked with a range of companies including Hard Rock Hotel, Cisco Systems, Razorfish, Oracle, Hilton, Hyatt, Ford, General Electric and WebMD, among others. Prior to founding Nervana, he was recognized by the Chicago Innovation Awards for the creation of TouchLife. He also was a major contributor to one of the most successful startup exits in Silicon Valley by helping Securent from startup to $100MM exit to Cisco Systems. Rhon is an active speaker and panelist on the issues of innovation and startup strategy. He was recently recognized in Chicago's first hard-back book on innovation called "Innovating Chicago Style" as a featured case study selected among the top 100 best companies in Chicago. Rhon graduated from Northern Illinois's Computer Science Program, is member of TEDxMidwest Conference, TEDxNaperville Conference, a Northwestern Kellogg School of Business Innovation Participant, a winner of the Chicago Innovation Awards, a member of the Illinois Technology Association, and serves on the Rasmussen Advisory Board.
Formed in Chicago in 2006, Estesombelo has developed a unique mixture of solemn silence and spacious intonations formalized into disintegrative, prolific textures. From their interests in ambient/drone music and the work of 20th – 21st century composers, Estesombelo has honed their aesthetic of experimental drone while expanding the confines of repetition and variation. Throughout their history of live performance, Estesombelo has worked with visual artists to incorporate ethereal images to complement their discordant mixture of diatonicism conveyed with erosive and increasingly abrasive feedback.
Dan Hooper
Dan's research focuses on the interface between particle physics and cosmology. Particle physics explores the fundamental nature of energy and matter, while cosmology is the science of the universe itself, including its composition, history and evolution. Some of the areas of this field that he has worked on include dark matter, supersymmetry, high-energy neutrinos, extra dimensions, and ultra-high energy cosmic rays. Dan authored Nature's Blueprint: Supersymmetry and the Search for a Unified Theory of Matter and Force, Dark Cosmos: In Search of Our Universe's Missing Mass and Energy, and coauthored Distinguishing Between Dark Matter and Pulsar Origins of the ATIC Electron Spectrum With Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes, Pulsars as the Sources of High Energy Cosmic Ray Positrons, High Energy Positrons From Annihilating Dark Matter, Deducing the nature of dark matter from direct and indirect detection experiments in the absence of collider signatures of new physics, and The New DAMA Dark-Matter Window and Energetic-Neutrino Searches. Dan was the David Schramm Fellow at Fermilab and Postdoc at the University of Oxford. He completed his Ph.D in physics at the University of Wisconsin in 2003.
Megan Kashner
Megan has spent her career leading organizations and programs dedicated to bringing innovation to the nonprofit sector and to improving social service support for women and families living in poverty and at risk. She has served as Executive Director for the Taproot Foundation and earlier for the Infant Welfare Society of Evanston, Chief Development Officer for Chicago's Deborah's Place and Program Director for organizations including the Howard Area Community Center, Methodist Youth Services and the Heartland Alliance. Megan is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a BA in Public Policy and American Civilization from Brown University, a master's degree from University of Chicago's School of Social Service Administration and an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. A frequent panelist and presenter at conferences, Megan most recently presented a session introducing Benevolent at the Independent Sector conference, on a panel about achieving scale at Kellogg's Innovating Social Change Conference, at the Axelson Symposium presenting a new approach to service enterprise for nonprofits, and on a panel about corporate commitments to skilled volunteerism at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service.
Nicholas Percoco
Nicholas J. Percoco is an ethical computer hacker who, at the age of six, constructed his first computer program. In his youth, he began navigating Bulletin Board Systems and performing ethical hacking exercises for Chicago companies. By 2005, he had formed the world-renowned information security research organization known as Trustwave SpiderLabs. Today, he leads Trustwave's global team of nearly 100 security experts in IT ethical hacking, incident investigations, and security research spread across six continents. Nicholas is a high profile speaker on security breaches and IT security trends. In 2010 and 2011, he revealed mobile security flaws in both the Apple iPhone and Google Android platforms at DEF CON, the world's largest underground hacking conference. The Department of Homeland Security and Interpol tap Nicholas's expert advice regardingcybercriminal activity, and he is one of the founders of THOTCON, an annual hacking and security conference in Chicago. Nicholas serves as a leading subject matter expert on hacking trends for MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, USA Today, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, among others. He is a Redbird alum and a Chicago native.
Dr. John Principe
Dr. John Principe's educational foundations were obtained at St. Rene Goupil Grammar School, St. Laurence High School and subsequently Loyola University of Chicago where he graduated, Summa Cum Laude, with a Bachelor of Science in Biology. Obtaining his medical degree in 1984, he received numerous teaching awards at RushUniversityand the Universityof Illinois. Board Certified in Internal Medicine and dedicated to the compassionate and practical care of patients, he contributes to society on both local and national levels through WellBeingMD®, his private practice in Palos Heights, Illinois. Faced with professional discontent and personal medical problems, Dr. John Principe, at age 50, was on course for ill health and disability. In 2008, he attended Harvard's Healthy Kitchens Healthy Lives continuing medical education course and was so impacted by its creator, Dr. David Eisenberg, that he created his own practice based on a revolutionary approach towards medicine.
Dominique Raccah
Innovative book entrepreneur Dominique Raccah is the founder of Sourcebooks, where she serves as publisher and CEO. She is fascinated by the transformation of the book and wonders whether digital books might well be changing everything.
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Jeanie Walters
Jeannie Walters is the founder of 360Connext, a Chicago-based consulting firm specializing in the cornerstones of customer experience: customer engagement, employee engagement and connections like social media. Walters started her career consulting to some of the most prestigious institutions in education, the arts and healthcare to help them launch or improve their fundraising efforts. She later joined Vox, a customer experience consulting firm, and became President and partner by the time she left 12 years later, when she founded 360Connext. Walters has worked with a wide range of organizations, including universities and prep schools, banks and credit unions, technology companies, some of the largest financial services companies in the world and countless entrepreneurs. She now speaks on topics including employee engagement, social media and communications in corporate environments. Walters lives outside of Chicago with her husband Mike and their two young sons. As such, her current hobbies include Thomas the Train and Elmo.
Bronwyn Wewaver
Raised on an organic farm in rural Ohio, Bronwyn Weaver's roots run deep in family-centered communities with a life-long interest in naturally grown food. After spending several years in Antigua, opening a grade school and providing consulting to major corporations, Bronwyn returned to the life she knew as a child. In 2002, she and her family moved to the Fox Valley area where she again took up beekeeping, launching Bron's Bee Company and, later, Heritage Prairie Farm in Elburn, Illinois. Here, she and her staff work the farm, growing vegetables all four seasons utilizing an innovative system of moveable greenhouses. A commercial kitchen on-site produces a wide range of value-added local foods. Her produce and honey are found in Whole Foods, Fruitful Yield, and on the menus of Chicago's top chefs. For the past five years, her farm has been a gathering place for many different celebrations, all centering around the local food experience: weddings, farm dinners, crop mobs, corporate team building events and farmer's markets. Bronwyn serves on the Board of Directors for FamilyFarmed.org and is the official beekeeper of Morton Arboretum.
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Mobolaji E. Aluko, Ph.D.
Burtonsville, MD, USA
July 7, 2003
A reader (and he knows himself!), on reading my
latest essay, wrote to me as follows:
Please educate me on this. How much does it really
cost to build a brand new and economically viable oil refinery? My uneducated
guess is that the money spent on the failed attempts to rehabilitate the
existing refineries since 1999 is probably sufficient to build a new one. Also,
what is stopping the SW governments in collaboration with private investors (or
preferably these governments enabling private investors to do this) from
commercially developing the bitumen resources in these states? These are
rhetorical questions, since my guess is that something in our military
constitution has taken these rights away from the people of these states..
Have a good one.
I responded to him privately, but I have now
decided to share my response as a Monday-quarter-backing.
These are tough questions with no easy answers.
The cost of a new refinery is pretty nebulous, but my best estimates (from so many disparate sources, I could faint!) is about $1,000 - 5,000 per (barrel per stream day capacity), depending on the capacity of the refinery. The lower the capacity the lower the unit bpd cost.
For example, a 20,000 bpd capacity refinery may cost $20 million, while a 100,000 bpd capacity refinery might cost $500 million.
For example, in Nigeria, I recently read that the 12,000 bpd topping modular refinery for Akwa-Ibom is for $10 million, while the 100,000 bpd complex refinery being touted for Tonwei Refinery in Bayelsa is estimated at $1.2 billion.
Nigerian private oil refinery awards contract to Ventech
05-03-01 Amakpe International Refineries has awarded a contract to Ventech Engineers, Pasadena, Texas, for what Ventech says is Nigeria's first privately held and privately financed oil refinery. Ventech is responsible for the design of the 12,000 bpd refinery and construction of pre-assembled modules for shipment to Eket, Akwa Ibom state.
The plant will be adjacent to ExxonMobil's Qua Iboe terminal, said Ventech, and will process Qua Iboe crude into naphtha, gasoline, kerosene jet fuel, diesel, gas oil, and fuel oil. Start-up is expected in December.
Official encouragement of private investment of the oil and gas industry was a factor in the project, said Ventech. The country has four refineries, but mechanical problems often keep them from operating at peak capacity, creating chronic shortages of oil products.
Source: Oil &Gas Journal
While Nigeria's state-held refineries are slated for privatization, plans for several small, independently-owned refineries are being developed. Nigeria has awarded 18 private refinery licences after opening up the country's downstream sector to private investment. President Obasanjo laid the foundation stone of the $1.5 billion Tonwei Refinery (in October 2002) in a ceremony marking the start of construction of Nigeria's first private refinery. The Tonwei Refinery will have an initial capacity of 100,000 bbl/d and it can be expanded to 200,000 bbl/d.
The government of Lagos State has announced that it is studying the possibility of establishing a refinery. Lagos is estimated to consume more than 50% of Nigeria's petroleum products. The refinery, if built, will serve not only Lagos but also Nigeria's other southwestern states.
The Akwa Ibom state government announced that it had concluded plans to build a 12,000-bbl/d refinery. U.S.-based Ventech announced that design and construction of the refinery, to be built in prefabricated modules in the United States and then shipped to Nigeria for assembly, had begun. The facility will be located in Eket, adjacent to the Qua Iboe crude terminal.
The Edo State government has obtained approval from the federal government to build an oil refinery. Capacity is expected to be 50,000 bbl/d, and a consortium of Nigeria's independent, local petroleum marketers stated that the government had approved their plan for the construction of a refinery in Nigeria's Federal Capital Territory
With respect to the economics of private oil refining in Nigeria, however, an interview with Akwa Ibom's governor Obong Attah is instructive as to why he is concentrating on making Akwa-Ibom's own an export refinery:
Q: ... Do you now own a right to set up a Refinery?
Attah: That's the irony of it. The federal government still has to know what is going on because in the final analysis, it owns the oil. It owns every mineral asset in the country, So, we still have to buy the oil from them and they have to tell me all the whys and wherefores of selling this thing. They will allow me to set up this Refinery but they will not agree to sell oil to us at the subsidised price. You need to get to that level of dialogue and understanding before you can move on. And we said fine because in any case we will be exporting whatever we produce until there's deregulation. If you deregulate and it becomes meaningful and profitable to sell refined products here in the country even with the crude we bought at world market price, then we will sell locally. But up till that point we will export. So I am quite happy with the licence.
Q:: I understand there's a second refinery coming up in Akwa Ibom?
A: They are two different things. One is just a topping plant. That basically refines and produces diesel and kerosene with a capacity of 12,000 barrels a day. Then there is the one that is a full Refinery with a cracking unit and that would refine 100,000 barrels a day.
Now from one of the reports above, you can see that 18 private licences have been issued, including one to Lagos State that if built will serve the south-western states. More information is provided below:
Meanwhile, the government has granted preliminary licences to 18 private companies to build refineries, the Office of the Presidential Adviser on Petroleum and Energy announced in Abuja.
The companies were shortlisted out of 31 applications received for preliminary licences to establish the refineries, Mr. Sam Dimka, Assistant Director, Press and Public Relations in the Office said. The successful companies are expected to meet other requirements within the next two years if their licences must remain valid, Mr. Dimka said.
Nigeria currently owns four refineries with combined capacity to process 445,000 bpd of crude oil. Companies that got the preliminary approval were Akwa Ibom Refining and Petrochemicals, Badagry Petroleum Refinery, Clean Waters Refinery, Ilaje Refinery and Petrochemicals, Niger-Delta Refinery and Petrochemicals, and NSP Refineries and Oil Services. Also included are Ode-Aye Refinery, Orient Petroleum Resources, Owena Oil and Gas, Rivgas Petroleum and Energy, Sapele Petroleum, and Southland Associates. Yet others were Southwest Refineries and Petrochemicals, Starex Petroleum Refinery, The Chasewood Consortium, Tonwei Refinery, Total Support Refineries and Union Atlantic Petroleum.
He said with the release of the result, successful applicants should submit their basic design package prior to the granting of "Approval to Construct", and Licence to Operate the Plant."
So we still have two to four years to go before we hear from these companies, and since it takes two to four years to build a refinery, we may be looking at four to six years before most of these companies come on board!
Realistically, the investment costs of new refineries and the emergency situation that we are in suggest that we in Nigeria should get into the low end of the capacity business – that is mini-refineries, of the order of 5,000 - 60,000 barrels per day, that is 5 - 60 tbpd, just good for quick modular building and easy operational costs, rather than the high end of it (100,00 – 200,000 bpd ie 100 – 200 tpd). That is still roughly $5 – 60 million – or at US$1/N125, that is N0.625 – N7.5 billion. This does not include operating costs.
So in fact, spending the purported $700 million on
TAM on new refineries could have given us quite a number of them. Maybe not 10,
but at least 5 in four years.
Personally, I think that 30 - 60,000 bpd
refineries in each geopolitical zone that does not have one right now (that is
South-West, North-East, North-Central, South-East) would go a long way to
ameliorating our situation. Government should not build them, but should do
EVERYTHING possible to quickly encourage private players to do so without
specifying fuel prices for them – that is liberalization and deregulation.
That would still have been fine, except that there is this slight problem: a recent World Bank report discourages low-capacity refineries in Africa:
Mbendi Oil
Africa: Oil And Gas Industry - Refining
- Overview
Refining in Africa
Oil refineries convert crude oil into fuel products, lubricating oils, bitumen and chemical feedstocks.There are 43 operating and 4 mothballed oil refineries in Africa which range from small topping and reforming refineries to sophisticated complex refineries which can compare with the best in the world, and 4 synfuel plants. The total distillation capacity for the continent is 142,700 ktonnes per annum (2,854 thousand barrels per calendar day) or an average of 3,400 ktonnes per annum (68 tbpd) per refinery.
The major refining nation is South Africa with four complex refineries. Caltex has a 5500 ktonnes per annum (110 tbpd) refinery in Cape Town. Shell and BP have joint ownership of the 8250 ktonnes per annum (165 tbpd) Sapref refinery in Durban where Engen owns the 5250 ktonnes per annum (105 tbpd) Enref refinery. Sasol and Total are joint owners of the Natref refinery in Sasolburg which has a capacity of 4250 ktonnes per annum (85 tbpd). All the South African refineries have undergone major expansions and upgrading since 1990.
Nigeria also has four refineries, all of which are owned by the parastatal Nigerian National Oil Company, NNPC . The refineries are situated at Kaduna in northern Nigeria with a capacity of 5500 ktonnes per annum (110 tbpd), at in the south at Warri with a capacity of 6250 ktonnes per annum (125 tbpd) and Port Harcourt which has two refineries of capacity 3000 ktonnes per annum (60,000 bpd) and 7500 ktonnes per annum (150 tbpd). The Nigerian oil industry has been seriously impacted by operational problems during recent years with production well below capacity.
The third major refining centre in Africa is in Egypt which has 8 refineries and another 100,000 bpd refinery under construction.The other African country which can boast modern refineries is Algeria.
As a result of a study conducted by the Italian consultants Cuneo et Associati, the World Bank is pressing for the smaller refineries of sub-Saharan Africa to be closed or converted to storage facilities. On the East coast, these would include the Tiper refinery in Tanzania, the Solima refinery in Madagascar and the Indeni refinery in Zambia, while on the West coast the refineries threatened with closure include the Luanda refinery in Angola, the Pointe Noire refinery in Congo, the Port Gentil refinery in Gabon, the Sonara refinery in Cameroon, the Muanda refinery in the DRC and the Tema refinery in Ghana. The SAR's Dakar refinery in Senegal is already in the process of being closed.
Two other refineries which might not be affected by the World Bank plans are the SIR refinery in Cote d'Ivoire and the Mombasa refinery in Kenya which have capacities of approximately 3550 and 3300 ktonnes per annum respectively.
So that is a dilemma right there, particularly for African countries which always look to the West for financing and advice!
The irony, however, is that an oil company recently acquired a 25,000 bpd refinery in Utah, USA:
Holly Corp. acquires Utah refinery
Eric Billingsley
NMBW Staff
Recently freed from a four-year, $1 billion lawsuit, Dallas-based Holly Corporation, parent of Artesia-based Navajo Refining, has acquired a Utah refinery for $25 million.
Holly signed a definitive agreement on Dec. 20 with ConocoPhillips to acquire the Woods Cross Refinery near Salt Lake City and related assets. The refinery is capable of producing 25,000 barrels per day of refined petroleum products.
Holly also acquired pipelines and other assets for transporting refined products, and 25 retail gas stations in Utah and Wyoming. As part of the agreement, Holly signed a 10-year license to market fuels under the Phillips brand name in Utah, Wyoming and Montana.
The acquisition comes a month after Holly settled a legal dispute with Longhorn Partners Pipeline Company. The suit, filed by Longhorn in 1998, alleged that Holly attempted to delay Longhorn from opening a 700-mile-long refined petroleum products pipeline. Analysts claimed that the threat of losing a $1 billion lawsuit limited investment in Holly.
"The key thing with this acquisition is the value," says Jacques Rousseau, analyst for Arlington, Va.-based Friedman, Billings, Ramsey. Rousseau says Holly paid a low price for the Woods Cross Refinery. He estimates that the refinery could generate approximately $8 million to $10 million in actual earnings per year. Holly Corp. reported revenues of $888.9 million for its fiscal year 2002.
Friedman, Billings, Ramsey upgraded Holly's stock from "underperform" to "outperform" and increased the company's 12-month stock price target from $19 per share to $27 per share. Credit Suisse First Boston also recently upgraded the stock from "underperform" to "neutral."
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So we always have ironical issues to contend with: if it is good in Utah, why
not in Nigeria?
By the way, one "small" refining system in the US – Valero Energy Systems, which is reportedly hot on Wall Street – has the following system of 11 refineries of almost 2 million bpd total running at virtually 96% capacity:
Corpus Christi – 347,000 bpd
Denver – 27,000 bpd
Houston – 135,bpd
Krotz Springs – 85,000 bpd
Jean Gaulin – 250,000 bpd
McKee – 170,00 bpd
Paulsboro – 195,000 bpd
St. Charles – 185,000 bpd
Texas City – 245,000 bpd
Three Rivers – 98,000 bpd
Wilmington – 140,000 bpd
So why can we in Nigeria not run a four-system one of 0.445 million bpd total?
With regard to Bitumen, it is a capital-intensive prospect and fraught with financial risks, probably even more challenging than crude oil refining. This is why we have the following report recently:
BPIC Threatens To Withdraw Bitumen Blocs From
Vanguard (Lagos)
16 June 2003
Barely five months after the flagging off of
the exploration and exploitation of Bitumen by President Olusegun Obasanjo, the
Bitumen Project Implementation Committee (BPIC) has threatened to withdraw the
blocs allocated to two companies if they fail to commence operation next month.
President Obasanjo had on February 17 this year performed the ground breaking to
flag off the official commencement of the exploration and exploitation of the
vast deposit of the mineral resources in the country. But, in an interview over
the weekend, the chairman of BPIC Professor Julius Ihonvbere told newsmen in
Akure that the committee is disappointed over the slow pace of work by the
companies that were allocated the blocs.
Professor Ihonvbere said the companies
include BEECON Consortium and NISSAN Limited. The chairman noted that the
committee has set up a three man ad-hoc committee which include a renowned
Geologist, Professor Idowu Odeyemi and the secretary of BPIC Alhaji Goni Sheiks
to look into the earlier agreement reached between the government and the two
companies. According to him, the ad-hoc committee is expected to monitor the
implementation of the terms of agreement reached with the two companies.
Professor Ihonvbere stated that six-month
deadline was given to the companies after the agreement was signed to enable
them move to the field so as to commence operations. The allocation of the bloc,
located in Ondo State was done before the President performed the ground
breaking. According to the chairman, the committee has mandated the ad-hoc
committee to demand for an explanation from the two companies a week after the
expiration of the six month deadline.
However, provided we concentrate on using it for road asphalt and not as an
alternative energy source, it should be possible for state governments in the
South-West to get together with private investors to make something of it.
Finally, I believe that government should fund a major study to put together
complete financial plans for setting up new refineries – from mini- to major
ones – and then encourage private investors and state governments to get into
the act at whatever point that they can, complete with government incentives.
There is simply too much focus on selling off our existing refineries, which
should be charged to our indigenous engineers to turn around.
I hope that helps.