LyondellBasell Shuts Delayed Coker at Houston Refinery
May 03 2019 - 01:38PM
Dow Jones News
LyondellBasell (LYB) on Friday reported the shutdown of a
delayed coker unit that led to above-normal gas emissions at its
refinery in Houston.
"Upset in [delayed coker] 737 Unit," the refinery said in a
statement to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. "The
unit was shut down."
It said the emissions of some 8,436 pounds of sulfur dioxide
began Thursday evening and lasted more than five hours. Delayed
coking and fluid coking are types of general coking, a refinery
unit operation that upgrades material called bottoms from the
atmospheric or vacuum distillation column into higher-value
products.
The 264,000-barrel-a-day Houston refinery covers 700 acres.
Write to Dan Molinski at dan.molinski@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
May 03, 2019 13:23 ET (17:23 GMT)
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