Local News in Brief : Heating Unit Repaired
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A fire-damaged heating unit at the Arco oil refinery in Carson will be repaired and back in service by today, a company spokesman said.
The unit suffered $300,000 in damage July 29 in a fire that lofted a plume of smoke visible for miles and caused a partial shutdown at the refinery. But spokesman Al Greenstein said the shutdown caused minimal production loss at the refinery, which normally can process 230,000 barrels of crude oil daily.
Company engineers confirmed that the cause of the fire was a leaking plug in a tube carrying partly refined petroleum through a furnace, Greenstein said.
The Arco refinery is the second largest in Los Angeles County after Chevron’s El Segundo facility, which can process 435,000 barrels a day.
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