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By Reuters Staff 1 Min Read HOUSTON (Reuters) - Marathon Petroleum Corp restarted a reformer and a coker on Thursday at its 585,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Galveston Bay Refinery in Texas City, Texas, said sources familiar with plant operations. Marathon restarted the 75,000-bpd reformer and a 27,000-bpd coker, the sources said. The entire refinery was shut by the effects of severe winter weather on Feb. 15. Reporting by Erwin Seba; Editing by Chris Reese

South Africa's state utility Eskom said on Friday it would extend scheduled power cuts by two more days, until 2300 local time (2100 GMT) on Sunday, as breakdowns at its Kriel, Medupi and Kendal power stations knocked more generation units offline.

By Reuters Staff 1 Min Read MOSCOW (Reuters) - A burst pipeline at an oilfield operated by a subsidiary of Russia’s Gazprom Neft has led to an oil spill on Monday, the subsidiary said, while the pipeline has been repaired on the same day. Gazpromneft-Noyabrskneftegaz said there is no danger to the forestry or water bodies from the spill. RIA news agency, citing the local branch of the emergency services earlier on Tuesday as saying, that oil spilled over an area of 1,100 square metres The incident occurred at the Yarainerskoye oilfield in the Yamal-Nenets region of western Siberia. The emer...

By Reuters Staff 1 Min Read HOUSTON (Reuters) - The second-largest crude distillation unit (CDU) at Motiva Enterprises 607,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Port Arthur, Texas, refinery is operating at 80% of capacity on Tuesday, said sources familiar with plant operations. Motiva is preparing to restart the smallest CDU and the small coker at the refinery, the sources said. Motiva did not reply to a request for comment. The second largest of the three CDUs at the refinery is the 195,000-bpd VPS-2 CDU. The smallest CDU is the 80,000-bpd VPS-2. The small coker is the 54,000-bpd DCU-1. The refinery was ...

French power consumption fell 3.5% last year as the COVID-19 pandemic cut demand more than during the 2008 financial crisis, grid operator RTE said on Wednesday.