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Gulf Gasoline Rises Amid Problems at Shell, Delek Refineries

December 16, 2011, 3:11 PM EST

By Paul Burkhardt

Dec. 16 (Bloomberg) — Gulf Coast gasoline rose for a fifth straight session as Royal Dutch Shell Plc and Delek US Holdings Inc. reported refinery problems in Texas and Louisiana.

Shell reported an “operations upset” at the Norco, Louisiana, refinery when furnaces were swapped yesterday, according to a filing with the National Response Center. Delek had emissions at its Tyler, Texas, plant, according to a filing with state regulators.

Conventional, 87-octane gasoline’s discount on the Gulf Coast narrowed 0.50 cent to 3.75 cents a gallon versus futures on the New York Mercantile Exchange at 2:41 p.m., according to data compiled by Bloomberg. It’s the highest level since Nov. 9. Prompt delivery rose 0.93 cents to $2.4545 a gallon.

Sunoco Inc. shut a hydrotreater at its Philadelphia refinery for maintenance, according to a person familiar with operations at the plant. The work on Unit 859, a distillate hydrotreater, is unplanned, said the person, who declined to be identified because the person is not authorized to speak for the refinery.

The premium for ultra-low-sulfur diesel in New York Harbor slipped 0.12 cent to 2.88 cents a gallon versus heating oil futures traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange at 1:56 p.m. The differential rose 1 cent a gallon yesterday.

–With assistance from Paul Gordon in Hong Kong. Editors: Margot Habiby, Charlotte Porter

To contact the reporter on this story: Paul Burkhardt in New York at pburkhardt@bloomberg.net.

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Dan Stets at dstets@bloomberg.net.

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Saudi Arabia To Be Motiva Texas Refinery’s Sole Supplier – Source

By Ben Lefebvre, Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES

HOUSTON -(Dow Jones)- Saudi Arabia will be the sole supplier of crude oil to Motiva Enterprises LLC’s refinery in Texas after the facility finishes expanding its capacity to 600,000 barrels a day next year, a person familiar with the matter said Friday.

The expansion of the Port Arthur, Texas, refinery, a joint venture between Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSA, RDSA.LN) and Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil company Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (SOI.YY), is scheduled for completion in the first quarter of 2012. The boost in its intake of Saudi crude oil would coincide with Saudi Arabia’s pledge to boost its oil production despite opposition from fellow members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.

Currently about half of the fuel at the 285,000 barrel-a-day facility is refined from Saudi crude oil, the source said.

Motiva will increase the number of oil shipments it accepts every month to 27 ships after the expansion, up from seven, the source said. Each ship brings in about 600,000 barrels of oil.

Motiva spokeswoman Marti Powers said in an interview that the company would be looking at “several supply options” for the Port Arthur refinery after its expansion. Powers said Motiva would look for the easiest and most cost-efficient source of crude oil.

In addition to the Port Arthur facility, Motiva also owns refineries in Norco and Convent, Louisiana.

-By Ben Lefebvre, Dow Jones Newswires; 713-547-9201; ben.lefebvre@dowjones.com

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Mysterious departure of Mark Hurley from Shell Motiva Norco

Makes us wonder here at Norco, when they are going to announce we have been sold. They are doing the Band-Aid approach painting things and fixing things that been needing it for a long time. No major repairs only those that you would do if you were going to sell your house.

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Shell Chemical Louisiana Plant May Start Up in Next Two Days

Oct. 24 (Bloomberg) — A chemical plant operated by Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Europe’s second-largest oil company, may return to service in the next two days after an unidentified failure caused the shutdown of two units.

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