Today's Refining Hotline Headlines

North America
Phillips 66 plans to restart two units at its 146,000-barrel-per-day (BBL/d) refinery in Borger, Texas in December: the 30,000-BBL/d Fluid Catalytic Cracker Unit (FCCU) 40 will restart in the first week of the month and the 30,000-BBL/d FCCU 29 will restart around mid-December.

International
Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Company (KIPIC), on November 26, resumed the commercial throughput of Crude Block 2, except for the Atmospheric Residue Desulfurization (ARDS) 2 Unit, at its 615,000-BBL/d Mina Al Zour Refinery in Kuwait. The Crude Block 2 units are operating at 50% throughput, and the Crude Block 1, Crude Block 3 and the ARDS 2 units are expected to restart by December 5.

Bandar Abbas Oil Refining Company (BAORC) is performing a 30-day planned turnaround of five units at its 340,000-BBL/d Bandar Abbas Refinery in Iran. Expectations are to restart the units by December 21.

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