A fire was extinguished in a process unit pump room at Monroe Energy’s 190,000-barrel-per-day refinery in Trainer, Pennsylvania, on Thursday, the company said in a statement.
The exact cause of the fire is unclear at this time, the company said, adding the incident will be fully investigated.
An employee sustained non-life threatening injuries and was transported offsite for medical treatment, according to the statement.
The Trainer refinery, located southwest of Philadelphia, is owned by Monroe Energy, a subsidiary of Delta Air Lines. The plant produces jet fuel and other transportation fuels including gasoline and diesel.
The fire occurred while the refinery was restarting the 68,000-bpd fluid catalytic cracker after an outage last week, a source familiar with the matter said. A catalytic cracker converts heavy crude oil feedstock into petroleum products.
Delta did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
U.S. jet fuel prices jumped after the start of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, as attacks disrupted crude and fuel exports from the Middle East. Prices are now set to ease as crude prices fall and more oil tankers begin moving through the Strait of Hormuz. However, any further disruptions could tighten the already constrained fuel market and push prices higher again.
(Reporting by Nicole Jao in New York, Ashitha Shivaprasad and Anjana Anil in Bengaluru, editing by Deepa Babington, Nia Williams and Aurora Ellis)
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