Today's Refining Hotline Headlines

North America
Motiva, on February 5, experienced a process upset on the 110,000-barrel-per-day (BBL/d) Delayed Coker Unit (DCU) 2 at its 640,000-BBL/d Port Arthur, Texas, refinery, which resulted in a unit outage. The outage duration is unknown at this time.

Suncor Energy's 98,000-BBL/d Denver Refinery in Commerce City, Colorado, remains shut down, following Winter Storm Elliot. The refinery's Plant 1 (West) and Plant 2 (East) were shut down due to the severity of the storm, and Plant 2 experienced a fire during a restart process while the units were still down. The plants are not expected to start up before late March, but the restart depends on regulatory compliance.

International
LUKOIL-Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez LLC, on February 7, was forced to shut down the 42,000-BBL/d delayed coker unit at its 354,561-BBL/d Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez Refinery in Russia, due to a fire, although the refinery's production has not been affected. A damage assessment is underway and the cause is under investigation.

Bahrain Petroleum Company has delayed the restart of the 104,000-BBL/d Crude Distillation Unit (CDU) 4A and the LSFO Complex at its 267,000-BBL/d Sitrah Refinery in Bahrain. The LFSO Complex now is scheduled to restart February 9, and the CDU 4A is expected to be back online by February 16.

Astron Energy has delayed the restart of its 100,000-BBL/d Cape Town Refinery in South Africa, which has been under an unplanned shutdown due to a fire that occurred in July 2020. Tentative expectations are to restart the units by February 20.

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