Three weeks after Hurricane Harvey ravaged the massive fuel-making industry along the Texas coast, the region’s recovery from storm damage is starting to disrupt plans for crucial maintenance at refineries Continue Reading
ExxonMobil Corp may restart most of the production units at its 362,300 barrel per day (bpd) Beaumont refinery in Texas, by the end of this week, said sources familiar with Continue Reading
Royal Dutch Shell Plc began restarting its 325,700-barrel-per-day (bpd) joint-venture Deer Park, Texas, refinery on Sunday for the first time since it was shut three weeks ago by Tropical Storm Continue Reading
As Hurricane Harvey battered southern Texas on August 27, the National Weather Service described it as “unprecedented”. There had been stronger storms before, but the torrential rainfall brought by Harvey Continue Reading
Nearly twenty days (or over 450 hours) after Hurricane Harvey made landfall between Port Aransas and Port O’Connor in Texas, there are a number of signs emerging in our ClipperData Continue Reading
Valero Energy Partners’ Houston refinery suffered a hurricane-related spill Aug. 27 from a light crude storage tank, the Environmental Protection Agency said. The chemical plant that released a cloud of Continue Reading
The largest U.S. refinery was restarting production on Monday for the first time since being shut nearly two weeks ago by Hurricane Harvey, said sources familiar with plant operations. Motiva Continue Reading
Texas continues to recover from Hurricane Harvey, and many of the disrupted refineries are ramping up production once again. But the ripple effects from the outages are still being felt, Continue Reading
U.S. oil refinery utilization rates slumped 16.9 percentage points to 79.7 percent last week, the lowest rate since 2010, according to data released by the U.S. Energy Information Administration on Continue Reading
Motiva Enterprises [MOTIV.UL] said on Tuesday it was in the initial phase of restarting its Port Arthur, Texas, refinery, the nation’s largest crude oil refinery after it was shut by Continue Reading
