PE unit at Chevron Phillips' Cedar Bayou, Texas, plant out of power for two hours after snake stumbled upon power breaker, regulatory filling shows

Graziela Medina Shepnick

Graziela Medina Shepnick

LOS ANGELES , June 20, 2011 () – A polyethylene unit at Chevron Phillips Chemical Co.’s Cedar Bayou, Texas, plant experienced a two-hour-long power outage on June 17 after a snake stumbled upon a power breaker, a filing with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality shows, ICIS news reported June 20.

A snake was also blamed for bringing down a vinyl chloride monomer plant in south Texas two years ago, an undisclosed source told the publication.

Chevron’s Cedar Bayou, Texas, site has a 372,000 tonne/year capacity high-density PE unit, a 280,000 tonne/year capacity low-density PE unit and a 350,000/tonne linear low density PE unit, ICIS news reported.

The primary source of this article is ICIS news, Surrey, England, on June 20, 2011.

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