Today's Refining Hotline Headlines

North America
Cenovus hopes to restart its 160,000-barrel-per-day (BBL/d) refinery in Toledo, Ohio, after it was shut down on September 20, 2022, following a fire on a crude unit. Plant boilers are now operational as progress is being made to restart the plant.

Deer Park Refining, on March 14, experienced a fire on the 70,000-BBL/d Distilling Unit 1 (DU-1) (Crude) Unit at its 340,000-BBL/d Deer Park Refinery in Texas. This same unit was down from February 23 to March 9 due to a fire, and from February 13 to February 20 due to minor maintenance. IIR continues to call for updates, as the extent of damages and restart remain unknown at this time.

International
Esso Petroleum Company, in mid-March, started a planned maintenance turnaround of the 36,500-BBL/d Residfiner at its 270,000-BBL/d Fawley Refinery in the U.K. The maintenance is expected to take approximately one month to complete.

Petrobras continues with planned repairs on five units at its 168,000-BBL/d RPBC Refinery in Brazil. The units were shut down by mid-February, and the mechanical portion of the turnaround began the first week of March. Meanwhile, the 63,000-BBL/d Fluid Catalytic Cracker Unit (FCCU) (U-24) has been offline since early March; however, inspection and minor maintenance will be performed in April. All of the work is set to be completed by late April.

North Refineries Company (NRC) continues with a 15-day planned minor maintenance turnaround of the 6,000-BBL/d Crude Distillation Unit (CDU) 2 at its 16,000-BBL/d Haditha Refinery in Iraq. The turnaround began on March 15, and expectations are to restart the unit by March 29.

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