Corpus Christi harbor reopened, refineries restart
Posted on: Sunday, 4 June 2006, 17:09 CDT
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Tankers were again sailing to the docks of three south Texas refineries on Sunday after a spill shut Corpus Christi harbor late last week, the U.S. Coast Guard said on Sunday.
The refineries operated by Valero Energy Corp., Flint Hills Resources LP, and Citgo Petroleum Corp. were restoring production interrupted by problems caused by heavy thunderstorms early on Thursday morning.
One of the problems was the spill of an estimated 250 barrels of runoff oil and water from Valero's Corpus Christi refining complex into the inner harbor of Corpus Christi Bay after lightning struck a containment tank.
Cleanup of the Valero spill was continuing on Sunday, with tankers going into the west inner harbor restricted to only daylight operations at minimum speed with a Coast Guard escort.
Additionally, Citgo reported a 50-gallon spill into the harbor and Flint Hills reported a spill within its refinery.
Citgo had operations on two of the gasoline-producing fluidic catalytic cracking units at its 156,000 barrel per day (bpd) refinery interrupted since the storms shut the steam supply to the Citgo and Flint Hills refineries.
FCC No. 1 at the Citgo refinery was shut on Thursday due to the steam loss and began restarting that day. FCC No. 2 was shut due to a mechanical problem and began restarting on Saturday.
A Citgo spokesman was not available to discuss refinery operations.
Valero's Corpus Christi refinery complex, which has a crude oil processing capacity of 142,000 bpd, was working to restore 70,000 bpd in output lost due to an electrical short at the refinery.
Valero had said the Corpus Christi refinery would begin increasing output on Saturday. A company spokeswoman was not available on Sunday to discuss refinery operations.
Flint Hills 288,000 bpd refinery was also restoring production after several processes were interrupted. A company spokeswoman was not available Sunday to discuss refinery operations.
Source: REUTERS
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