{"id":10135,"date":"2024-03-16T16:13:17","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T16:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/?p=10135"},"modified":"2024-03-16T16:13:17","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T16:13:17","slug":"totalenergies-preparing-port-arthur-texas-fcc-for-restart-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/10135\/","title":{"rendered":"TotalEnergies preparing Port Arthur, Texas FCC for restart, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"description\"><p><span class=\"pre-content-text\"><a style=\"color: #0038a8;\" href=\"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/\">RoydadNaft &#8211; <\/a><\/span>\u00a0TotalEnergies was preparing on Friday to restart the gasoline-producing fluidic catalytic cracker (FCC) over the weekend at its 238,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Port Arthur, Texas refinery, said people familiar with plant operations.<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"21\">Following the FCC\u2019s restart, the company plans to restart the refinery\u2019s coker and small crude distillation unit (CDU), the sources said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"22\">The 76,000-bpd FCC was shut by a leak and a clamp had to be fabricated, the sources said. The clamp was installed on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"93\">The 60,000-bpd coker and 40,000-bpd ACU-2 CDU were shut after the FCC was idled, according to the sources. Once the coker restarts, ACU-2 will be brought back up into production.<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"94\">The TotalEnergies refinery has struggled since late November after the end of a three-month overhaul on the FCC.<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"95\">It struggled to resume full production until being hit by a plantwide power outage on Jan. 16. The refinery returned to normal production by Feb. 21 following the outage.<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"105\">TotalEnergies reported that two sulfur recovery units malfunctioned on March 7, according to a notice to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"106\">ACU-2 is the smaller of two CDUs that begin the refining process by breaking down crude oil into feedstocks for all other units at the refinery.<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"107\">The FCC uses a fine powder catalyst to convert gas oil under high heat and pressure into gasoline.<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"108\">The coker converts residual crude oil from distillation units into either feedstocks to make motor fuels or petroleum coke, which can be a substitute for coal.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-date no-social-btn post-updated\">Updated on<time class=\"updated dt-updated\" itemprop=\"dateModified\" datetime=\"2024-03-16T16:13:17+00:00\"> 16 March 2024<\/time><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TotalEnergies was preparing on Friday to restart the gasoline-producing fluidic catalytic cracker (FCC) over the weekend at its 238,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Port Arthur, Texas refinery, said people familiar with plant operations.\r\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[47,46,36,19,21,35],"tags":[],"services":[],"class_list":["post-10135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-international","category-lastnews","category-news","category-petrochemical","category-topnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10135"},{"taxonomy":"services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/services?post=10135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}