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Wednesday, 6 September 2017

ExxonMobil restarts production in Texas after Harvey flooding




ExxonMobil Corporation said that facility assessments and restart activities continue at its Baytown refinery and that it has made significant progress in restarting chemical production, pipelines and other logistical infrastructure in the Houston area, after the impact of Hurricane Harvey.
The company’s fuel terminals in Houston are open and supplying gasoline and diesel to customers. Offshore production platforms in the Gulf of Mexico are beginning to return to normal operations. Production units at the Beaumont refinery remain shut down due to flooding in the lower level of the refinery.
Efforts are underway to transport refined products from unaffected regions to communities and customers in the most severely impacted areas. The company is also delaying scheduled maintenance at other ExxonMobil refineries to continue producing gasoline and diesel to relieve the supply situation. Personnel from the Baton Rouge, Billings and Joliet refineries are being deployed to Baytown and Beaumont to help restore operations.
The company has allocated supplies of fuel for use by emergency responders and has thus far provided nearly 650,000 gallons to responders working in areas impacted by the storm, including Beaumont, Baytown and the greater Houston area, as well as Dallas and Baton Rouge.

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