Petrobras Shutting Pasadena, Texas Refinery Due to Storm
August 27 2017 - 12:53PM
Dow Jones News
Brazil's Petroleo Brasileiro SA said Sunday it was shutting its
Pasadena refinery near Houston as the city grappled with major
flooding, tornadoes and other problems related to Hurricane
Harvey.
"Planned refinery shutdown due to severe weather," the
110,000-barrel-day refinery said in a statement to the Texas
Commission on Environmental Quality.
Other Houston-area refineries including Exxon Mobile Corp.'s
major, 560,000-barrel-a-day Baytown refinery also announced they
were shutting down.
Write to Dan Molinski at dan.molinski@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
August 27, 2017 12:38 ET (16:38 GMT)
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