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PDVSA's Chalmette to shut 3 units, save $8 mil/month -sources

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Petroleumworld.com, Aug 30, 2010

Exxon Mobil Corp's ( XOM.N ) 196,000 barrel per day (bpd) joint-venture Chalmette, Louisiana, refinery will shut three units in a reconfiguration planned to save between $8 million and $9 million per month, according to sources familiar with the plans.

The refinery, a 50-50 joint venture between Exxon and Venezuela's national oil company PDVSA, plans to shut a distillate hydrocracker, a gasoline reformer and a coking unit, according to the sources.

Exxon, which is the managing partner of the joint-venture, said on Thursday some units would be shut at the refinery, but declined to say which units would be shut.

Story reporting by Erwin Seba from Reuters

Reuters 08/27/2010

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