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Valero says FCCU still running at St. Charles refinery

Wed Jun 10, 2009 8:19am EDT

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NEW YORK, June 10 (Reuters) - Valero Energy Corp said the gasoline-making fluid catalytic cracking unit at its 185,000 barrel-per-day St. Charles refinery in Norco, Louisiana was still running after a fire early Tuesday morning.

A company spokesman said the coker, the vacuum unit and the crude unit were still downed by a brief fire. (Reporting by Janet McGurty; Editing by John Picinich)



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