Largest US refinery slowly comes back to life after Harvey

Published September 5, 2017 8:12pm ET



The nation’s largest oil refinery at Port Arthur in Texas is in the final stages of being restarted, but it will still take until the weekend before it returns to anything close to business as usual, according to Motiva, which owns the plant.

“We expect the refinery to initially return to approximately 40 percent production by the end of this weekend, provided that the final assessments meet our operational standards,” a statement from Motiva said on Tuesday.

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