Shell Deer Park, Texas, refinery shuts gasoline-producing FCC after fire: sources
JULY 19, 2020
HOUSTON (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell Plc shut on Saturday the gasoline-producing fluidic catalytic cracker (FCC) at its 318,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) joint-venture Deer Park, Texas, refinery after a fire, sources familiar with plant operations said on Sunday.
How long the 70,000-bpd FCC will be shut was unknown on Sunday, the sources said.
Shell spokesman Curtis Smith said on Sunday that all individuals were safe and accounted for at the Shell Deer Park Complex, which includes the refinery and adjoining chemical plant.