HOUSTON, Aug 19 (Reuters) - TotalEnergies TTEF.PA began a planned 60-day overhaul on the small crude distillation unit (CDU) along with a reformer and hydrotreaters at its 238,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Port Arthur, Texas refinery, people familiar with plant operations said on Tuesday.
The 35,000-bpd continuous catalytic reformer (CCR), three diesel hydrotreaters with a combined throughput of 84,000 bpd, along with a 42,000-bpd naphtha hydrotreater and a sulfur block were shut along with the ACU-2 CDU and its associated vacuum distillation unit-1 (VDU-1), the sources said.