(Adds company declining to comment, background on restart,
refinery)
HOUSTON, March 29 (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell Plc
restarted the gasoline- and diesel-producing units on Sunday at
its 318,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) joint-venture Deer Park, Texas,
refinery, sources familiar with plant operations said on Monday.
The 70,000-bpd gasoline-producing fluidic catalytic cracker
(FCC) and 67,000-bpd hydrocracker were shut on Feb. 15 when most
of the refinery's units were knocked out of production by severe
cold weather.
Shell spokesman Curtis Smith declined to comment.
Shell began restarting the refinery on March 15.
The refinery is a 50-50 joint-venture between Mexico's
national oil company, Pemex, and Shell, which is the
managing partner.
(Reporting by Erwin Seba in Houston
Editing by Matthew Lewis)
