Local News in Brief : Arco Repairs Fire Damage
A fire-damaged heating unit at the Arco refinery in Carson will be repaired and back in service by Friday, a company spokesman said.
The unit suffered $300,000 worth of damage July 29 in a fire that lofted a plume of smoke visible for miles and partially shut down the refinery, according to spokesman Al Greenstein.
He said the shutdown caused minimal production loss at the refinery, which normally can process 230,000 barrels a day of crude oil.
Greenstein said company engineers confirmed that the cause of the fire was a leaking plug in a tube carrying partly refined petroleum through a furnace.
The Arco refinery is the second largest in Los Angeles County after Chevron’s El Segundo facility, which can process 435,000 barrels a day.
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