Total Reports Tripped Compressor at Port Arthur Refinery
January 14 2020 - 5:11PM
Dow Jones News
By Dan Molinski
Total Petrochemicals & Refining USA on Tuesday reported a
tripped compressor that led to above-normal gas emissions at its
refinery in Port Arthur, Texas.
"The Wet Gas Compressor at the Delayed Coker Unit (Unit 860)
tripped, sending process gases to the flare gas recovery system,
which was overwhelmed and sent the process gases to the North,
South and East flares," the refinery said in a statement to the
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. "In order to minimize
emissions, Total stabilized the unit and restarted the Wet Gas
Compressor."
The emissions of some 75,000 pounds of sulfur dioxide began
Monday evening and continued into Tuesday morning, lasting a total
of about nine hours, the refinery said.
Total's 225,000-barrel-a-day Port Arthur refinery is 95 miles
east of Houston.
Write to Dan Molinski at dan.molinski@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
January 14, 2020 16:56 ET (21:56 GMT)
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