BP finds leak at Texas City refinery cracker tower

NEW YORK (Reuters) – BP (BP.L) (NYSE:BP – news) said in a filing with state environmental regulators on Thursday that it detected a leak in a gasoline-making catalytic cracking unit tower at its 460,000 barrel per day refinery in Texas City, Texas.

According to a filing with the Texas Commission for Environmental Quality, BP detected a leak at FCCU3 cooling tower and began testing Thursday to determine which cooling tower exchanger is leaking.

The filing said BP expects the event to end on September 17.

A company spokesman was not immediately available for comment.

The refinery, where 15 people died in a blast last year, is in the process of restarting following shutdown ahead of Hurricane Rita last September.

Reuters