Oct 28 (Reuters) – Citgo Petroleum Corp said it
would initiate partial restart of the crude unit next week at
its 174,500 barrel-per-day (bpd) Lemont, Illinois, refinery,
according to a statement by the company on Monday.
The refinery shut the crude unit after a fire on Oct 23.
The fire was limited to the vacuum distillation section of
the crude unit and that section has been isolated, the
statement said.
The company will restart the atmospheric section of the
crude unit at reduced rates by the end of next week.
“The atmospheric distillation unit is going through an
extensive safety review and is being completely isolated from
the vacuum distillation equipment,” the statement said.
“There is no information on timing for the vacuum
distillation unit repairs,” it said.
(For refinery outages in the Reuters Oil
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(Reporting By Anupam Chatterjee in Bangalore)
