HOUSTON, Dec 30 (Reuters) - The three-week unplanned shutdown of a 72,000 barrel per day (bpd) gasoline-producing fluidic catalytic cracking unit will cut Valero Energy Corp's West Coast production by 30,000 bpd in the fourth quarter of 2010, a company spokesman said on Thursday.
The FCC malfunctioned at Valero's 144,000 bpd San Francisco Bay-area refinery on Dec 2. After 15 days of repairs, Valero said it would keep the FCC shut through a 36-day plantwide overhaul in January. Other units at the Benicia refinery began shutting on Thursday for the planned overhaul.
In October, the company said it planned for its two California refineries to have a combined throughput between 280,000 and 290,000 bpd in the fourth quarter.
'We're saying its going be 30,000 bpd less than that primarly because the FCC shutdown at Benicia,' Valero spokesman Bill Day said on Thursday.
Valero had no other revisions in throughput projections for the other regions in its North American refinery system, Day said.
(Reporting by Erwin Seba; Editing by David Gregorio)
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The FCC malfunctioned at Valero's 144,000 bpd San Francisco Bay-area refinery on Dec 2. After 15 days of repairs, Valero said it would keep the FCC shut through a 36-day plantwide overhaul in January. Other units at the Benicia refinery began shutting on Thursday for the planned overhaul.
In October, the company said it planned for its two California refineries to have a combined throughput between 280,000 and 290,000 bpd in the fourth quarter.
'We're saying its going be 30,000 bpd less than that primarly because the FCC shutdown at Benicia,' Valero spokesman Bill Day said on Thursday.
Valero had no other revisions in throughput projections for the other regions in its North American refinery system, Day said.
(Reporting by Erwin Seba; Editing by David Gregorio)
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