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Motiva’s Port Arthur Refinery Reportedly Shuts Two CDUs After Pipeline Outage

5/10/2021

Multiple reports on Monday afternoon indicated that the largest refinery in the United States has had to temporarily shut down two crude distillation units after a reported cybersecurity attack on the Colonial Pipeline cause an outage of operations.

Motiva Enterprises' 607,000 barrel per day refinery in Port Arthur, Texas has reportedly shut in its 195,000-bpd VPS-4 CDU, its 80,000-bpd VPS-2 CDU, the 49,000-bpd reformer and 19,200-bpd lube oil hydrocracker at the project site. At this writing, Motiva had yet to discuss the status of these units nor their pending return to production.