Part of a unit from a Texas oil refinery has suspended operations due to an oxygen supply shortage in the area, Bloomberg reported.
Sulfur recovery units use oxygen in an effort to retrieve sulfur, which comes from raw materials, to meet the chemical element’s emissions standards. A Texas environmental filing noted that Citgo Petroleum Corp. had halted part of that unit’s operations due to a higher medical need for oxygen in the area, Bloomberg noted.
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The announcement comes as hospitals in states like South Carolina, Florida, Louisiana and Texas are grappling with oxygen shortages amid a higher number of COVID-19 cases, CNN reported.
Some hospitals were running on a reserve of up to only a day’s worth of oxygen, a supply-purchasing group said, according to Bloomberg.
In Texas, the state saw over 21,000 COVID-19 cases on Wednesday and over 28,000 cases the day prior, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). New daily cases were in the hundreds in July.
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