Today's Refining Hotline Headlines

North America
Suncor, on November 9, will complete a planned maintenance turnaround of six units at its 260,000-barrel-per-day (BBL/d) upgrader in Fort McMurray, Alberta.

Phillips 66 continues with a major turnaround at its 146,000-BBL/d refinery in Borger, Texas. Four units are scheduled to restart on November 11, after being shut to undergo extensive work with the installation of two new shared furnaces. The Gas Oil HDS area will see staggered restarts between November 11 and November 18, and the delayed coker unit, 30,000-BBL/d Fluid Catalytic Cracker (FCCU) 29 and 30,000-BBL/d FCCU 40 will not restart until November 18.

Calumet Specialty Products, on November 5, began 29 days of planned maintenance on the 178 million-gallon-per-year renewable diesel unit at its 25,000-BBL/d refinery in Great Falls, Montana.

International
Chinese Petroleum Corporation (CPC) delayed the restart of the 80,000-BBL/d Residual Fluid Catalytic Cracker (RFCC) Unit, 20,000-BBL/d Gasoline HDS 3 Unit and 14,000-BBL/d alkylation unit at its 350,000-BBL/d Talin (Dalin) Refinery in Taiwan due to additional repairs needed. The units now are expected to be back online on December 16. Separately, the 150,000-BBL/d Crude Topping Unit 12 remains on schedule to restart by November 16.

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