Today's Refining Hotline Headlines

North America
Suncor, today, September 5, started a 55-day planned maintenance turnaround of six units at its 260,000-barrel-per-day (BBL/d) upgrader in Fort McMurray, Alberta.

Pemex TRI's 25,000-BBL/d HDS Unit 700-2 at its 325,000-BBL/d Refineria Ingeniero Antonio Dovali Jaime (Salina Cruz) is on schedule to restart by the end of this week.

Pemex TRI's 40,000-BBL/d Combinada BA (Crude Unit 110) at its Refineria Francisco I Madero (Ciudad Madero) in Mexico is on schedule to restart by mid-September.

International
Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL), on September 2, was forced to shut the 35,000-BBL/d VGO Heavy Gas Oils (HGO) Hydrotreater at its 320,000-BBL/d Kochi Refinery in India, due to leakage in process pipe. Expectations are to restart the unit by September 12.

Homs Refinery Company (HRC) continues with an unplanned shutdown of the 27,000-BBL/d Crude Distillation Unit (CDU) 3 and 40,000-BBL/d CDU 1 at its 121,000-BBL/d Homs Refinery in Syria, due to a crude oil shortage and specialty chemical shortage. Separately, HRC continues with a 25% derate of the 20,000-BBL/d CDU 2 and 34,000-BBL/d CDU 4 and continues to operate seven other units at 50% capacity. The units are tentatively expected to resume normal operations by November 30.

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