Shell says Convent refinery needs power, repairs
September 3rd, 2008 | by admin |NEW YORK, Sept 2 (Reuters) - Shell Oil (RDSa.L: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) said onTuesday it was hoping to ramp up production soon at its GulfCoast refineries in the wake of Hurricane Gustav, but at leastone of them needs power and repairs before it can restart.
Shell said it could begin restarting some processing unitsat its 220,000 barrel per day oil refinery in Norco, Louisiana,in the “next couple of days” and hopes to ramp up productionrates at its 290,000 bpd joint venture Motiva refinery in PortArthur, Texas ” as soon as possible”.
But it said its 235,000 bpd Motiva refinery in Convent,Louisiana, is without power and “restart of the refinery willdepend on further assessments, repairs that are needed andavailability of dependent resources.”
(Reporting by Richard Valdmanis)
