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CHRISTIANSTED, U.S. Virgin Islands (AP) - Crews at the Western Hemisphere's second-largest oil refinery restarted a gasoline-producing unit on Friday after it was switched off for repairs, a spokesman said.A fluid catalytic cracker at the Hovensa refinery on the south coast of St. Croix was shut for repairs to a wet gas scrubbing unit on Thursday, said refinery spokesman Alex Moorhead. He would not say if the brief shutdown affected production.A partial power outage Thursday also led to a short shutdown of several other processing units at the U.S. Virgin Islands refinery, which has a daily maximum capacity of 500,000 barrels of gasoline, diesel and jet fuel. Those units have also been restarted, Moorehead said early Friday afternoon.Hovensa, owned by New York-based Hess Corp. and Petroleos de Venezuela SA, the national oil company of Venezuela, is the largest private employer in the U.S. Virgin Islands.Copyright 2007 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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