Aug 27 (Reuters) - Motiva Enterprises LLC said onTuesday its 235,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) refinery in Convent,Louisiana, is currently operating as planned.
The crude distillation unit at the refinery was expected tobe shut for at least a month following a fire on a nearbycatalytic reformer, sources familiar with operations at therefinery had said on Thursday.
Motiva is jointly owned by Saudi Aramco's subsidiary, SaudiRefining Inc, and Royal Dutch Shell. In addition to itsConvent refinery, Motiva owns and operates a refinery in Norco,Louisiana, and another in Port Arthur, Texas.
(For refinery outages in the Reuters OilFundamentalsDatabase see http://bond.views.session.rservices.com/CE/ or go to ) (Reporting By Anupam Chatterjee in Bangalore)