Alon says Big Spring, Tx, CDU back after fire

NEW YORK, April 10 (Reuters) - Alon USA (ALJ.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Thursday that it had successfully restarted a crude unit at its 67,000 barrel-per-day refinery in Big Spring, Texas, after a previous restart attempt failed Monday because of a fire.

"The unit is back up," a spokesman said.

The refinery is in the process of recovering from a major fire that struck in mid-February and Alon doesn't expect to resume full production from the plant until July.

With the successful restart of the crude unit, the refinery is running at about 35,000 bpd.

(Reporting by Richard Valdmanis; Editing by David Gregorio)