By Dan Molinski

Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) said an electricity outage at its refinery in Baytown, Texas, caused emissions of carbon monoxide and other gases that began Saturday and were due to end Monday.

"Power interruption resulted in safe utilization of the flare system," the refinery said in a statement to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. "Unit feed rates were reduced to minimize emissions and power was restored."

The 561,000-barrel-a-day Baytown refinery, located 25 miles east of Houston, is the nation's second-largest refinery after Saudi Aramco's 600,000-barrel-a-day Motiva Port Arthur refinery.

Write to Dan Molinski at dan.molinski@wsj.com

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

July 16, 2018 07:50 ET (11:50 GMT)

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