Phillips 66 Reports Tripped Compressor, Flaring at Sweeny Refinery in Texas
January 04 2019 - 8:50AM
Dow Jones News
Phillips 66 (PSX) reported a tripped compressor that resulted in
flaring of gas emissions at its Sweeny refinery in Texas.
"A compressor tripped offline in Unit 29.2 (a delayed coker
unit), resulting in flaring," the refinery said in a statement to
the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. "Operations
personnel checked the gas compressor and the compressor was
restarted within 70 minutes."
The emissions, which included more than 2,800 pounds of sulfur
dioxide, began late Wednesday and ended Thursday, the company
said.
The 247,000-barrel-a-day Sweeny refinery is in Old Ocean,
southwest of Houston.
Write to Dan Molinski at dan.molinski@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
January 04, 2019 08:35 ET (13:35 GMT)
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