Marathon reports fire put out at Galveston Bay, Texas refinery

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- Marathon Petroleum Corp MPC.N reported on Tuesday that a fire was extinguished at its 631,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Galveston Bay refinery in Texas City, Texas.

The fire was reported on January 12 at its alkylation unit 2 operating area when residual hydrocarbons ignited while draining a vessel, the company said in a filing with state pollution regulators.





(Reporting by Swati Verma in Bengaluru; Editing by Jacqueline Wong)

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