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TotalEnergies Port Arthur Halts Multiple Units After Friday Fire

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TotalEnergies Port Arthur refinery in Texas shut multiple units on Friday after a fire at a reformer according to Bloomberg and Reuters sources.

  • The fire broke out at about 4:30 a.m. CDT (0930 GMT) on the 35,000-bpd reformer in the naphtha and aromatics processing section of the refinery, Reuters sources reported.
  • Units shut include the 80k b/d and 165k b/d crude units, 52k b/d VDU, 55k b/d VDU, 40k b/d catalytic reformer and 46k b/d reformer feed hydrotreater, according to Wood Mackenzie.
  • The length of outages is not clear at present but Reuters sources suggested up to a month.
  • The TotalEnergies refinery struggled following the end of a three-month overhaul on the gasoline-producing 76,000-bpd FCC in late November through mid-January to reach full production.

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