Valero Port Arthur, Texas, refinery hit by power outage, sources say

Valero Energy

01/09/2026 23:59

Small crude unit shut, large crude unit operating at minimum, sources say
Tropical Storm Edouard made landfall Tuesday afternoon near Valero refinery 
HOUSTON, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Valero Energy Corp’s VLO.N 385,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Port Arthur, Texas, refinery was hit by a partial power outage on Tuesday night following the passage of Tropical Storm Edouard, said people familiar with plant operations. 
The refinery’s AVU-147 crude distillation unit was shut by the power outage on the south side of the plant and the AVU-146 CDU was operating at the minimum crude processing level, the sources said.  

 (Reporting by Erwin Seba; Editing by Tom Hogue)
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