Industrial gas major Linde has confirmed that its CO2 plant locatedat Chevron’s El Segundo refinery, wherea fire broke out last week, has not been impactedand remainsfully operational.
Reports of an explosion at the multinational oil company’s site emerged on Thursday night, with Reuters confirming the blaze was contained to one section of the refinery.
The El Segundo refinery, built in 1911, produces 290,000 barrels of crude oil a day. Its main products are transportation fuels, including gasoline, jet fuel, and diesel, according to Chevron’s website.
gasworld had heard that a 600-tonne-per-day CO2 plant, operated by industrial gas major Linde, was offline due to the incident, however, Linde has since confirmed this is not the case.
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