HOUSTON, April 2 (Reuters) - A brief loss of power forced
Royal Dutch Shell Plc to shut the coker at its 225,300
barrel-per-day (bpd) Norco, Louisiana, refinery early on
Thursday, said sources familiar with plant operations.
Shell is working to restart the 25,000 bpd coker, which was
shut shortly after 1 a.m. CDT (0600 GMT) on Thursday. The coker
converts residual crude oil from distillation units into
feedstock for motor fuels or petroleum coke, a coal substitute.
(Reporting by Erwin Seba
Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)