According to Reuters article published on November 17, 2022, the second-largest crude distillation unit (CDU) at Motiva Enterprises' (MOTIV.UL) 626,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Port Arthur, Texas, refinery was back to normal operation on Wednesday after a power interruption, said three people familiar with operations.
A Motiva spokesperson declined to comment on operations at the Port Arthur refinery.
The 200,000-bpd VPS-4 CDU sustained a brief electrical power interruption on Tuesday afternoon, the sources said. Motiva's Port Arthur refinery is the largest in the United States.
VPS-4 is one of three CDUs at the refinery that converts crude oil into feedstocks for all other units at the refinery.
Motiva completed a six-week overhaul on VPS-4 on Nov. 10, sources previously told Reuters.
Motiva is the U.S. downstream production and marketing arm of Saudi Aramco (2222.SE).
