Motiva Enterprises (MOTIV.UL) on Monday restarted the second-largest crude distillation unit (CDU) and small coker at its 607,000-barrel-per-day Port Arthur, Texas, refinery, said sources familiar with plant operations. A Motiva spokesperson declined to comment. The 195,000-bpd VPS-4 CDU and 54,000-bpd coker were among units shut at the Motiva refinery, the nation’s largest, on Sunday morning by a partial power outage, the sources said. Power was restored later on Sunday. A 49,000-bpd catalytic reformer 4 and the 25,200-bpd heavy gas oil hydrotreater were also restarting on Monday morning after being knocked offline in the power loss, according to the sources. The power outage may have been due to a small animal causing a short in a transformer that failed early on Sunday, the […]