HOUSTON, March 23 (Reuters) - Valero Energy Corp VLO.N shut its 380,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Port Arthur, Texas, oil refinery on Monday night following an explosion and fire at a diesel hydrotreater unit, said people familiar with plant operations.
The Monday night explosion at the 47,000-bpd 243 diesel hydrotreater unit rocked the region in east Texas on the Louisiana border, the sources said, with the blast heard as far as 11 miles away.