Today's Refining Hotline Headlines

North America
Deer Park Refining, on January 31, will begin two weeks of minor maintenance on the 30,000-barrel-per-day (BBL/d) Platformer (Plat 2) at its 340,00-BBL/d refinery in Deer Park, Texas.

Pemex commissioned the Combinada Maya (crude) units at its 340,000-BBL/d Dos Bocas Olmeca refinery in Mexico, while commissioning of the remaining processing units and auxiliary services continues. Based on recent research by IIR Energy, the commercial startup, which is currently set for May, could be further postponed due to delays in commissioning, testing and pre-startup activities. IIR continues to monitor the refinery's operational status and will continue to issue updates.

International
Saudi Aramco, on January 27, began a 30-day planned turnaround of five units at its 550,000-BBL/d Ras Tanura Refinery in Saudi Arabia. Expectations are to restart the units by February 25.

LUKOIL-Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez LLC continues with a shutdown of the 41,600-BBL/d Fluid Catalytic Cracker Unit (FCCU) at its 354,561-BBL/d Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez Refinery in Russia. The unit shut down in early January following an incident in one of the compressors, and it is tentatively expected to resume operations by late March.

South Refineries Company (SRC) expects the 70,000-BBL/d Crude Distillation Unit (CDU) 4 at its 210,000-BBL/d Basra Refinery in Iraq, will begin commercial operations by February 8. After startup, the refinery's design capacity will ramp up from 210,000 BBL/d to 280,000 BBL/d.

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