Today's Refining Hotline Headlines

North America
Valero, on August 6, shut down the 18,000-barrel-per-day (BBL/d) Delayed Coker on the East side of its 249,700-BBL/d Bill Greehey Refining Complex in Corpus Christi, Texas, for about 10 days due to minor maintenance.

International
ENEOS Corporation has delayed the restart of the lone crude unit at its 141,000-BBL/d Sakai Refinery in Japan, due to additional repairs and inspections of the hydrogen production unit. The unit, along with the 34,000-BBL/d Reformer and 46,000-BBL/d Fluid Catalytic Cracker Unit (FCCU), now is expected to restart by August 26.

PetroChina Daqing Refining & Chemical Company continues with a 55-day planned refinery-wide turnaround of its 120,000-BBL/d Daqing Refinery in China. Five major units are involved. Expectations are to restart the units by September 26.

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