Shell restarts small crude unit at Deer Park, Texas, refinery: sources

[HOUSTON] Royal Dutch Shell Plc restarted the small crude distillation unit (CDU) on Friday at its 318,000-barrel-per-day (bpd) joint-venture Deer Park, Texas, refinery, said sources familiar with plant operations.

The 70,000-bpd DU-1 CDU was shut on Feb 14 by a pump seal failure, the sources said. All other units were shut the following day by severe cold weather.

DU-1 is the last unit shut in February to restart at the refinery.

REUTERS