Tesoro to close California refinery FCCU by 2017
1/7/2015 12:00:00 AM
US West Coast refiner Tesoro is planning to permanently close a gasoline-making fluid catalytic cracking unit (FCCU) when it integrates its two Los Angeles-area refineries by early 2017, according to a report from Reuters.
Tesoro bought the 251,000 bpd Carson refinery from BP in 2013. The Carson refinery is adjacent to Tesoro's existing 104,500-bpd Wilmington refinery.
The company has been operating the refineries separately.
Tesoro had previously said it planned to close the 36,000-bpd cat cracker at the Wilmington refinery, without specifying when the work would be completed, Reuters reported.
The Carson refinery's FCCU has a throughput capacity of 104,000 bpd.
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