Fire Out, Shelter Order Lifted After Texas Oil Refinery Explosion

Officials say an oil refinery fire near the Texas coast has been put out and a shelter-in-place order has been lifted, hours after a large explosion at the complex shot plumes of smoke into the air. Mayor Charlotte M. Moses says no one was injured in Monday’s explosion at the Valero refinery in Port Arthur. The explosion comes amid a spike in gas prices driven by uncertainty over the global oil supply because of the Iran war. Valero’s website says the refinery has about 770 employees and can process about 435,000 barrels of oil per day. The plant refines heavy sour crude oil into gasoline, diesel and jet fuel.