NEW YORK, May 19 - Sunoco Inc (SUN.N) said Tuesday that firefighters extinguished late Monday a fire that had hit the ethylene plant at its 178,000 barrel-per-day refinery in Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania.
"As of 10 p.m. (EDT) Monday (0200 GMT Tuesday), the fire had been extinguished," a Sunoco official said in a recorded message on the company's refinery hotline.
Damage assessment from a fire, which struck Sunoco's plant on Sunday, will take at least a week, a source familiar with refinery operations said Tuesday.
Sunoco is sending in engineers to begin to look at the damage the fire caused, along with union officials and federal health and safety inspectors.
On Monday, the company said a gasoline-producing fluidic catalytic cracking unit at the refinery was shut following Sunday night's explosion at the ethylene plant.
The refinery's crude distillation unit was running at 85 percent of planned production levels, Sunoco spokesman Thomas Golembeski said.
Sunoco will boost output at its Philadelphia and New Jersey refineries to make up for production lost at Marcus Hook, Golembeski said.
According to sources familiar Sunoco's operations, the restart process at the 333,000 barrel per day Philadelphia refinery had not yet begun on Tuesday morning.
"As of 10 p.m. (EDT) Monday (0200 GMT Tuesday), the fire had been extinguished," a Sunoco official said in a recorded message on the company's refinery hotline.
Damage assessment from a fire, which struck Sunoco's plant on Sunday, will take at least a week, a source familiar with refinery operations said Tuesday.
Sunoco is sending in engineers to begin to look at the damage the fire caused, along with union officials and federal health and safety inspectors.
On Monday, the company said a gasoline-producing fluidic catalytic cracking unit at the refinery was shut following Sunday night's explosion at the ethylene plant.
The refinery's crude distillation unit was running at 85 percent of planned production levels, Sunoco spokesman Thomas Golembeski said.
Sunoco will boost output at its Philadelphia and New Jersey refineries to make up for production lost at Marcus Hook, Golembeski said.
According to sources familiar Sunoco's operations, the restart process at the 333,000 barrel per day Philadelphia refinery had not yet begun on Tuesday morning.
