TotalEnergies Reports Power Outage, Emissions at Texas Oil Refinery
By Dan Molinski TotalEnergies Petrochemicals & Refining USA on Friday reported an electricity outage, an operational disruption and excessive gas e...
July 21, 2023
4:40 PM
By Dan Molinski TotalEnergies Petrochemicals & Refining USA on Friday reported an electricity outage, an operational disruption and excessive gas emissions at its oil refinery in Port Arthur, Texas. "A loss of power to Unit 819 [flare gas recovery unit] resulted in a process upset causing flaring emissions that exceeded 500 pounds of [sulfur dioxide] at the North Flare," the refinery said in a statement to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, noting the emissions happened Thursday night.
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