HOUSTON, April 9 (Reuters) - Motiva Enterprises has begun planning to carry out the overhaul of the secondlargest crude distillation unit at the 600,250 barrel per day(bpd) Port Arthur, Texas, refinery in January 2016 instead ofJuly of this year, sources familiar with the company's planssaid on Thursday.
This is the fourth time the overhaul of the 195,000 bpd CDU,called VPS-4, and multiple associated units has been rescheduledsince it was originally planned to take place in February 2014.Motiva's Port Arthur refinery is the country's largest.
Motiva has begun planning the overhaul for January of nextyear because that is when enough contract workers are expectedto be available for the overhaul, the sources said. Motivaexecutives have not signed off on the January date, but theplanning is going forward with that timeframe. (Reporting by Erwin Seba)