Texas Oil Refiners Will Take Weeks to Recover, Pushing Up US Gasoline Prices

Texas Oil Refiners Will Take Weeks to Recover, Pushing Up US Gasoline Prices
The sun sets behind a crude oil pump jack on a drill pad in the Permian Basin in Loving County, Texas, on Nov. 24, 2019. Angus Mordant/Reuters
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Texas oil refineries shut by cold-weather disruptions may take several weeks to resume normal operations, industry experts said on Friday, helping to push up fuel prices.

About a fifth of oil processing was halted by power outages and shortages of natural gas and water this week.