Today's Refining Hotline Headlines

North America
Suncor Energy, on February 6, restarted the 32,000-barrel-per-day (BBL/d) Crude 1 Unit in Plant 1 (West) at its 98,000-BBL/d Denver Refinery in Commerce City, Colorado.

International
SK Energy Limited remains on schedule to perform a 27-day shutdown of the 260,000-BBL/d Crude 5 Unit at its 840,000-BBL/d refinery in Ulsan Nam Gu, South Korea, beginning March 20. Expectations are to complete repairs and resume normal operations by April 15.

Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) continues with planned repairs at its 175,000-BBL/d refinery in Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela. The turnaround of the 60,000-BBL/d Crude (DA-2) Unit, which has been under repairs since early September, has been extended due to additional furnace works needed and a lack of material. The restart date is unknown at this time. The 75,000-BBL/d Crude (DA-1) and the 40,000-BBL/d Crude (DA-3) units are running at 50% capacity. The 15,000-BBL/d Fluid Catalytic Cracker Unit (FCCU) and 5,000-BBL/d hydrofluoric alkylation unit remain offline, and a restart date is unknown at this time.

Total Refining & Chemicals Feyzin is on schedule to perform a major refinery-wide turnaround at its 117,000-BBL/d Feyzin Refinery in France. The approximately seven-week shutdown is expected to kick off in early March.

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