Shell's Norco, Louisiana, refinery returns to normal operations

Royal Dutch Shell Plc returned its 227,400 barrel-per-day (bpd) oil refinery at Norco, Louisiana, to normal operations on Monday, said sources familiar with plant operations.

Shell returned the 240,000-bpd crude distillation unit (CDU) and 14,800-bpd alkylation unit to production as well as restarting the 40,000-bpd reformer, the sources said.

Shell spokesman Curtis Smith declined to comment.

The reformer was shut for maintenance on Sept. 8. The CDU and the alkylation unit were taken out of production on Sept. 14 as the refinery reduced production because of the threat from Hurricane Sally. Shell then decided to keep the two units offline for maintenance.

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