The Daily Journal (South America): Shell’s Motiva refinery resumes ops: Friday 7 October 2005 

LONDON – Royal Dutch Shell Plc, the world’s third-largest publicly traded oil company, said on Thursday a partial restoration of power to its Motiva refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, will allow it to resume production within the month. Repair work has begun at the 275,000 barrel-per-day refinery, Shell said Thursday in an e-mailed statement.

The company’s Deer Park plant near Houston, which can process 340,000 barrels of crude daily, is increasing output of gasoline, jet fuel, diesel and chemical products. Hurricane Rita knocked down electricity to seven refineries near the Texas-Louisiana border last month.

The plants have been closed since before the storm made landfall on September 24, less than four weeks after Hurricane Katrina slammed the U.S. Gulf Coast. Shutdowns in the Port Arthur area and in Lake Charles Louisiana idled more than 10 percent of U.S. refining capacity. Bloomberg

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