Refinery production cut due to crude supply
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell Plc cut back production at its joint-venture 275,000 barrel-per-day (
Shell spokesman Ray Fisher said operations were stable at the Deer Park refinery, which is next to the site of a fire at Intercontinental Terminals Co (ITC), a unit of Mitsui & Co Inc, last week.
The sources did not know how much production was cut
Shell shut a 35,000-
A dam at the ITC petrochemical tank farm, where 11 80,000-barrel storage tanks burned last week, failed on Friday, allowing chemicals released from the burned tanks to spill into the ship channel.
The U.S. Coast Guard shut the channel to contain and clean up the spill.
Reporting by Erwin Seba; Editing by Jeffrey Benkoe
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