The company had started repairing a fire-hit crude distillation unit, company spokesman Sophie Gates said.”We confirm that no other process unit was affected by the fire,” Gates added.The refinery, called Pasadena Refining Systems Inc for its location in the Houston suburb of Pasadena, Texas, has been shut, except for a delayed coking unit, since the CDU blaze, in which no one was injured.

The buyer could not be confirmed. But traders said that with MRPL remaining as one of the few suppliers of the high sulphur gas oil to the Middle East, prices for the grade had firmed in recent weeks.MRPL last sold 40,000 tonnes of 0.25 percent sulphur gas oil to Trafigura at a premium of about $1.50 a barrel to Middle East quotes.