Shell Norco Louisiana gasoline unit shut to repair leak
Royal Dutch Shell Plc shut the gasoline-producing residual catalytic cracking unit (RCCU) at its 227,400 barrel-per-day (bpd) Norco, Louisiana refinery, sources familiar with plant operations said.
The 112,000 bpd RCCU, which converts residual crude oil into unfinished gasoline, was shut to repair a leak, the sources said.
The RCCU repairs led Shell to issue a notice to nearby residents on Thursday that the Norco refinery and chemical plant complex would using the safety flare system because of maintenance on a unidentified unit.
The RCCU, unlike the more common fluidic catalytic cracker (FCC), uses residual crude oil from distillation units to make unfinished gasoline. FCCUs use gas oil as their feedstock.
Reporting by Erwin Seba, editing by Louise Heavens and Chizu Nomiyama
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