A Tanker at Dockweiler

Yesterday, Damsel took some great pictures along the shoreline as we drove home from Santa Monica. I liked this shot so much that I wanted to work it into a blog. I looked up some stuff about where we were when she got the picture:

A tanker sits offshore at Dockweiler State Beach, near the departure end of Los Angeles International Airport. Nearby is an industrial complex that includes Chevron’s El Segundo oil refinery, the Hyperion Sewage Treatment Plant, and the Scattergood power plant owned by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, at Playa del Rey. Dockweiler Beach has many barbecue pits and is popular with families, despite the airplanes that roar overhead from Los Angeles International Airport. These plants burn natural gas, but can also use oil piped in from oil refineries, especially the adjacent Chevron refinery. The marine oil terminal offshore serves the refinery. SCE built the plant, and continues to operate it, but it is now owned by NRG/DESTEC Energy Co. of Houston.

Photo credit: Damsel