MOSCOW (MRC) -- Total Petro Chemicals and Refining USA on Sunday said an early-day regional power failure caused upsets at multiple units at its Port Arthur Refinery, including a fire at one of the Vacuum Distillation Units, reported The Wall Street Journal.
The fire was extinguished, company spokeswoman Jennifer Walsh said.
"The refinery is conducting air quality monitoring and there has not been offsite impact detected. We will continue to monitor the situation and will provide more information as it becomes available," Ms. Walsh said.
Ms. Walsh didn't say what other units at the refinery had been impacted by the power outage, but a filing to Texas state environmental regulators earlier on Sunday said the 9:30 a.m. CDT event resulted in emissions at Area 1, Area 5, the East Flare, the North Flare, Sulfur Recovery Units 1 and 3, a Tail Gas Thermal Oxidizer, the South Flare and Unit 833.
The filing said the refinery instituted emergency shutdown procedures to the affected units but didn't name the units.
Total's Port Arthur refinery is able to process up to 174,000 barrels of crude oil a day.
As MRC wrote previously, in early 2013, Total Petrochemicals and Refining USA reported a malfunction in the sulfur recovery unit of its Port Arthur, Texas, refinery.
Total, one of the world's leading petrochemicals companies with business in Europe, the United States, the Middle East and Asia. Total has two main product groups: base chemicals and the consumer polymers (polyethylene, polypropylene and polystyrene) that are derived from them.
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