Two Louisiana Refineries Hit By Outages

Electrical power outages in the New Orleans area caused by Tropical Storm Cindy affected at least two Louisiana refineries early on Wednesday morning, according to company spokeswomen.

Operations at Chalmette Refining LLC’s 187,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) refinery in Chalmette, Louisiana, were disrupted early Wednesday morning, a spokeswoman said.

Chalmette spokeswoman Nora Scheller did not have information immediately available about which units were affected by power outage.
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