Output has been cut down by Lyondell Basell Industries has cut production at its Houston refinery. Output has been reduced by as much as around 25 percent for between 10 days and a month to fix a coker damaged in a Friday morning blaze. The production capacity of refinery has around 2,63,776 barrel per day. Luckily no injuries were reported in this mishap. The Lyondell fire broke out in a pump on the 42,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) delayed coking unit, the smaller and older of two at the refinery, the sources said. The same coker underwent a six-week overhaul that finished in March, but the pump was not included in that project.
