NEW YORK - BP (BP.N: Quote, Profile, Research) (BP.L: Quote, Profile, Research) will shut a hydrogen unit at its Praxair BP Texas City refinery for the month of November for turnaround and process upgrades, according to a filing with Texas regulators.
BP's Texas City refinery is the largest in the BP system and third largest in the United States, with a throughput of 435,000 barrels per day of crude oil, according to the BP Internet Web site.
A filing on the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Internet Web site said the refinery expects to restart the unit at the end of November or early December.
A BP spokesman said this week that Praxair is the hydrogen supplier to the refinery and that, "Praxair is meeting its contractual obligations to supply us with hydrogen."
The BP spokesman added that it was company policy not to comment on specific refinery operations unless there was some impact to the community and therefore he had no further comment on the regulator filing.
In an earlier filing with the TCEQ, BP had said it was shutting a fluid catalytic converter on Oct. 16 for repairs to a regenerator, with the length of the shutdown not known.
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