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Nov 2 (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell Plc's 285,500-barrel-per-day (bpd) joint-venture Deer Park, Texas,refinery plans to restart the gasoline unit on Wednesday afterrepairing thin piping found last week at the end of a plannedoverhaul, sources familiar with plant operations said.
A Shell spokesman said on Wednesday that operations at theDeer Park refinery were stable.
The 70,000-bpd, gasoline-producing fluidic catalyticcracking unit was shut on Sept. 12 for the overhaul, which wasscheduled to end in the last full week of October but wasdelayed after the discovery of thin piping on the unit.
The Deer Park refinery is a 50-50 joint venture betweenShell and Peroleos Mexicanos. (Reporting by Erwin Seba; Editing by Grant McCool)