Largest U.S. oil refinery suffers partial shutdown after sudden power loss due to severe weather

(ZEROHEDGE) – Motiva's Port Arthur Manufacturing Complex in Port Arthur, Texas, the largest refinery in North America, with a capacity of 630,000 barrels of crude oil per day, shuttered several processing units on Wednesday following a power failure due to severe weather in the area. Motiva wrote in a filing that around 05:45 local time…

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(ZEROHEDGE) – Motiva's Port Arthur Manufacturing Complex in Port Arthur, Texas, the largest refinery in North America, with a capacity of 630,000 barrels of crude oil per day, shuttered several processing units on Wednesday following a power failure due to severe weather in the area.

Motiva wrote in a filing that around 05:45 local time on Wednesday, the refinery "experienced an unexpected interruption and/or shutdown of several critical pieces of equipment, due to a power interruption caused by severe weather conditions which impacted the Port Arthur area."

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Bloomberg said the units affected were vacuum pipe stills 2 and 4. According to Wood Mackenzie/Genscape data, those two units have a combined crude-processing capacity of 300,000 barrels a day.

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