Today's Refining Hotline Headlines

North America
PBF Energy, on May 9, started 40 days of maintenance on the 155,000-barrel-per-day (BBL/d) DH Crude unit at its 155,000-BBL/d refinery in Martinez, California.

Phillips 66, on May 10, shut down the 14,000-BBL/d Hydrofluoric Alkylation (HF Alky) 1 Unit at its 146,000-BBL/d refinery in Borger, Texas.

International
ENEOS Corporation, today, May 11, began a planned turnaround of the 77,000-BBL/d Crude 3 (PSKN) unit at its 247,000-BBL/d Kawasaki Refinery in Japan. The restart is expected on July 13.

ENEOS Corporation was forced to shut down the lone crude unit at its 145,000-BBL/d Sendai Refinery in Japan, to repair piping after a sulfur leak. As a sympathy outage, the 43,000-BBL/d Residual Fluid Catalytic Cracker (RFCC) Unit, 52,000-BBL/d Residual Hydrotreater (HDS) Unit and associated units also are offline. Inspections could take a few days, and the outage could possibly last until May 31, although no final decision has been made at this time.

Cosmo Oil Company Limited, on May 11, began a planned turnaround of the 40,000-BBL/d Fluid Catalytic Cracker (FCCU) Unit and 36,000-BBL/d Residual Hydrotreater 10 at its 177,000-BBL/d Chiba Refinery in Japan, and expects to restart the units on June 4 and June 15, respectively.

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