DALLAS -- Alon USA Energy Inc. announced that it reopened the Big Spring, Texas, refinery truck rack on Friday. All of the other company racks have remained operational since the explosion on Monday, Feb. 18, 2008, that injured four workers.
Jeff D. Morris, Alon's president and CEO, said, "We are pleased with the progress we are making in returning the Big Spring refinery to service. This is the first step of many. We are currently ahead of our own internal schedule and continue to be optimistic about returning to the first stage of operation producing gasoline, diesel and asphalt within 60 [image-nocss] days."
He added, "Since the Monday explosion at the refinery, we have supplied all our customers with 100% of their contract volumes and no contract customer has been placed on allocation."
Alon USA's 70,000-barrels-per-day Big Spring refinery is located 290 miles west of Dallas in West Central Texas. It employs approximately 170 people and is one of four Alon USA refineries.
Alon USA Energy, Dallas, is an independent refiner and marketer of petroleum products, operating primarily in the southcentral, southwestern and western regions of the United States. The company owns and operates four sour and heavy crude oil refineries in Texas, California and Oregon, with an aggregate crude oil throughput capacity of approximately 170,000 bpd. Alon USA markets gasoline and diesel products under the FINA brand name. It also operates more than 300 convenience stores in West Texas and New Mexico primarily under the 7-Eleven and FINA brand names and supplies motor fuels to these stores from the Big Spring refinery. In addition, Alon USA supplies approximately 800 additional FINA branded locations.[To read more about spring fuel pricing volatility, look to the cover story of the February issue of CSP magazine.]
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