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Exxon reports Beaumont FCC malfunction: filing

HOUSTON
Sun Jul 12, 2009 4:51pm EDT

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HOUSTON (Reuters) - Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM.N) reported a malfunction in a gasoline-producing fluidic catalytic cracking unit at its 344,500 barrel per day (bpd) Beaumont, Texas, refinery on Saturday, according to a notice filed with state pollution regulators.

The FCC's wet gas compressor was shut Saturday night after a part on the unit broke releasing hydrocarbons into the air, according to the notice filed with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

(Reporting by Erwin Seba; Editing by Phil Berlowitz)


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