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Refinery Status: BP Shut Indiana To Find Product Pipeline Leak

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Refinery Status: BP Shut Indiana To Find Product Pipeline Leak

The following table lists unplanned and planned production outages at U.S. refineries as reported by Dow Jones Newswires. The information is compiled from both official and unofficial refining sources and doesn’t purport to be a comprehensive list.

BP PLC (BP) has shut the White Oak pipeline transporting finished
products from its Whiting, IN, refinery to two Illinois terminals to
find the source of a leak, a company spokesman said Wednesday. The pipe
was taking offline for pressure testing before an excavation began in
Hammond, IN, on Tuesday.

Valero Energy Corp. (VLO) said Wednesday that it has shut a naphtha
hydrotreater to repair a leak at a heat exchanger at its Corpus Christi,
Texas, refinery. A filing on Tuesday did not identify the unit.

The Hovensa refinery in the U.S. Virgin Island of St. Croix shut an
aromatics related to a pipe leak late Tuesday afternoon, according to a
filing with the National Response Center.

ConocoPhillips (COP) has reduced crude oil throughput rates at its
refinery in Trainer, Pa., owing to a leak at a crude distillation unit, a
person familiar with operations at the plant said Tuesday. The leak,
recently discovered, is expected to be repaired in about two to three
days and the cutback is expected to be short-lived, the person added.

Alon USA Energy Inc. (ALJ) reported emissions from a key gasoline-making
unit at its Big Spring, Texas, refinery, according to a filing with
state environmental regulators Tuesday.

BP PLC (BP, BP.LN) will restart an ultracracker unit Monday afternoon at
its Texas City, Texas, refinery, according to a filing with state
environmental regulators.

Source: Dow Jones & Company, Inc.

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