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Valero says Houston refinery FCC shut after upset

Fri Jul 6, 2012 11:50am EDT 

HOUSTON, July 6 (Reuters) - The gasoline-producing fluidic
catalytic cracking unit was shut following a malfunction on
Thursday afternoon at Valero Energy Corp.'s 88,000
barrel per day (bpd) Houston refinery, a company spokesman said
on Friday.
    The refinery also shut the refinery's alkylation unit.
    "The cause of the upset in under investigation," said Valero
spokesman Bill Day. "We don't expect it to be a lengthy outage."
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