Delta closes on deal for Philly-area refinery

The company closed on the $180 million purchase of the refinery in Trainer on Friday. A union official says workers are expected to start returning and getting the plant ready next week.

Delta announced in April that it would buy the idled ConocoPhillips refinery in a deal it hoped would cut its jet fuel bill by $300 million a year. Officials have said the refinery is expected to restart in September and that a Delta subsidiary — Monroe Energy LLC — will run it.

Denis Stephano, president of the local steelworkers union, says all of the workers who wanted to return are going back.