Most of the refineries and petrochemical plants has been shut down due to Hurricane Harvey rains in Houston

Published on August 29, 2017

Heavy rains and floods has led to shutdown of major refineries in US gulf coast. Housston is regarded as hub for refineries and petrochemical plants.

Several more companies have shut down plants as precautionary measures to Harvey impacts or have had production issues as a result of severe weather and flooding:

Ascend declares force majeure on Chocolate Bayou -American Acryl Bayport shuts acrylic acid Celanese shuts Pasadena methanol. Chevron Phillips Chemical (CP Chem) shuts Cedar Bayou olefins and derivatives. ExxonMobil shuts Baytown refinery and chemicals plant. Flint Hills Resources flares at Houston propane dehydrogentation (PDH). Indorama unit trips at Clear Lake ethylene oxide. The other major company like INEOS has upset at Chocolate Bayou olefins 1 and 2. Petrobras shuts Pasadena refinery.


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