TotalEnergies Port Arthur Refinery Shuts Crude Units on Malfunction

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TotalEnergies Port Arthur Refinery Shuts Crude Units on Malfunction | OilPrice.com

The TotalEnergies refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, has been forced to shut down its two crude distillation units and two vacuum distillation units, due to a malfunction at the gasoline-producing unit

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The TotalEnergies refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, has been forced to shut down its two crude distillation units and two vacuum distillation units, due to a malfunction at the gasoline-producing unit, sources with knowledge of the refinery operations have told Reuters.

After a malfunction at the gasoline-producing fluidic catalytic cracker (FCC) at the 238,000 barrel-per-day refinery, the plant shut down on Thursday the two crude distillation and two vacuum distillation units, according to Reuters' sources. Those units convert crude into feedstock for all other units at the refinery.

But my French made hoard of Total oil is unaffected
I do hope there was no one injured or environmental damage
Hopefully people are still on the job and getting paid
I don't know much about the oil refinery business, but I do know it's bad if there's a CSB video made about it

 

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I've been watching those CSB or whatever videos the last year or two. Very interesting stuff & I'm glad these things are documented to prevent it in the future. This one sounds like a malfunction & not a disaster though. Good article.