Aruba refinery starts crude unit.
Added on March 1, 2008 | Filed Under Aruba News
NEW YORK, USA (Bloomberg): Valero Energy Corp., the largest US refiner, said “several units are up and operating,” including a crude unit and coker, at its Aruba refinery after a fire shut the plant last month.
“We do have operations going at Aruba,” Bill Day, a company spokesman, said in a telephone interview on Tuesday.
The January 25 blaze at the Valero plant took place in a vacuum tower. The company will take three months to restore full operation at the refinery, Chief Financial Officer Michael Ciskowski said on a conference call with investors and analysts January 29.
Crude units separate oil into its various components for further processing into fuels. Cokers convert the heaviest components into lighter feedstocks for processing into fuels.
The Aruba refinery has a crude processing capacity of 275,000 barrels a day and produces mostly intermediate feedstocks and blendstocks.