HOUSTON, Sept 17 (Reuters) - LyondellBasell Industries263,776 barrel per day (bpd) Houston refinery wasflaring on Monday afternoon due to a malfunction at Royal DutchShell Plc's nearby Deer Park, Texas chemical plant,according to Gulf Coast market sources.
The Shell chemical plant takes fuel gas supplied by pipelinefrom the Lyondell refinery, the sources said. Compressors thattransport the fuel gas from the pipeline into the chemical plantwere said to be malfunctioning on Monday afternoon.(Reporting by Erwin Seba)