Marathon Oil's Texas Refinery Fire Put Out, Daily News Reports

By Nesa Subrahmaniyan

Nov. 4 (Bloomberg) -- A fire at Marathon Oil Corp.'s Texas City refinery on Nov. 3 was extinguished in less than 30 minutes, the Daily News reported.

The fire broke out at 8 p.m. and the refinery's fire crew was deployed to the scene, putting out the blaze by 8:20 p.m. local time, the newspaper said.

A pump house near a storage tank had caught fire, the newspaper said, citing Bruce Clawson, the head of homeland security for Texas City, who was informed by Marathon officials about the fire.

The refinery can process about 81,500 barrels of oil a day, according to the U.S. Energy Department.

To contact the reporter on this story: Nesa Subrahmaniyan in Singapore at nesas@bloomberg.net.