The blaze yesterday pushed prices higher when it shut down a 120, 000-barrel-a-day catalytic cracking unit at the 450, 000-barrel-a-day refinery, the nation's largest.
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The huge rise in postwar driving was fueled by the process, called fluid cat cracking by the oil industry, short for fluid catalytic cracking.
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The 130, 000 barrel-a-day catalytic cracking unit the Hess refinery in St . Croix, Virgin Islands, could be shut for two weeks, traders said.
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;1937 : Eugene Houdry develops a method of industrial scale catalytic cracking of petroleum, leading to the development of the first modern oil refinery.
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One of the two catalytic cracking units at Exxon's 411, 000-barrel-a-day refinery in Baytown, Texas, was shut because of operational problems, the company said.
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A crude distillation unit closed Sept . 10 and a catalytic cracking unit was due to close Sept . 20 for six to eight weeks.
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Sun resumed operations at its 85, 000-barrel-a-day catalytic cracking unit, used to make gasoline, earlier today, said Bud Davis, a spokesman at the Philadelphia-based refiner.
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The project involves upgrading and refurbishment of an existing fluid catalytic cracking unit of the oil refinery in Turkmenbashi for which Technip Malaysia is the subcontractor.
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Sun Company Inc ., meanwhile, reported a minor problem at a catalytic cracking unit at its 175, 000-barrel-a-day Marcus Hook refinery near Philadelphia, a company spokesman said.
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Exxon said earlier this week that a 110, 000-barrel-a-day catalytic cracking unit at the Baytown refinery restarted Sunday and was building up to its full operating capacity.
