Two refineries report damage

Valero, the nation’s leading refiner, said it will take “two weeks to a month to implement the necessary repairs and restart” its 255,000 barrel-per-day facility at Port Arthur.

The Valero plant was one of seven major refineries at greatest risk from Rita. The seven together normally refine 1.7 million barrels of crude oil per day.
Shell Oil said its 285,000 barrel-per-day Motiva Refinery at Port Arthur “has sustained wind damage including downed power lines and cooling water-tower damage.”

Shell, which co-owns the refinery with Saudi Refining, did not know how long repairs would take or when the refinery may operate again.

A spokesman for the American Petroleum Institute said it is too early to know how much damage Rita did to oil operations in the Gulf region.

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