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Valero: Port Arthur refinery coker shut for repair

Tue Nov 17, 2009 9:10am EST

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NEW YORK, Nov 17 (Reuters) - Valero Energy Corp (VLO.N) said Tuesday it shut three modules of a 105,000 barrel-per-day coker at its 325,000 bpd Port Arthur, Texas refinery to repair cracks in the coke drums.

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"We expect this outage to be brief with the coker modules returned to service over the next several days," Valero spokesman Bill Day said in an email. (Reporting by Janet McGurty)

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