By Dan Molinski

Brazil's Petroleo Brasileiro SA (PBR), or Petrobras, reported emissions linked to a gasoline-making fluid catalytic cracking unit at its Pasadena refinery in Texas.

In a statement to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the refinery said the emissions began Saturday, lasted about seven hours and were caused by "a change in unit operating conditions."

The source of the emissions was an FCCU and an electrostatic precipitator stack, and that it followed procedures "to minimize emissions until unit operations were restored," the refinery said.

The 106,000-barrel-a-day refinery is located in the Houston area.

Write to Dan Molinski at dan.molinski@wsj.com

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

September 24, 2018 07:55 ET (11:55 GMT)

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