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Conoco: Wood River units in restart after outage

Fri Sep 5, 2008 1:51pm EDT

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NEW YORK, Sept 5 (Reuters) - ConocoPhillips (COP.N) said on Friday that it was in the process of restarting impacted units at its Wood River oil refinery in Illinois after a brief power outage hit the 306,000-barrels-per-day plant on Wednesday.

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"We are still in the process of getting the impacted units up and running at the Wood River refinery," Conoco spokesman Bill Graham said in an email. He did not specify which units were affected. (Reporting by Haitham Haddadin)



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