Today's Refining Hotline Headlines

North America
ExxonMobil, on April 4, began reducing (approximately 50%) the 180,000-barrel-per-day (BBL/d) Crude A unit at its 600,000-BBL/d refinery in Beaumont, Texas, in order to perform inspections and cleaning on the 35,000-BBL/d Vacuum A-1 unit which will be fully offline until mid-April.

International
PDVSA completed planned repairs at its 175,000-BBL/d Puerto La Cruz Refinery in Venezuela, and the 75,000-BBL/d Crude (DA-1) Unit is online and running at 53,000 BBL/d. The 60,000-BBL/d Crude (DA-2) Unit finished a planned turnaround in late March after it was placed offline for major repairs in September 2023, but PDVSA personnel kept the unit offline, and a restart date is unknown at this time. The 40,000-BBL/d Crude (DA-3) Unit is online and running at 31,500 BBL/d.

ENEOS Corporation expects to restart the lone crude unit and three other units at its 150,000-BBL/d Negishi Refinery in Japan by April 22. Separately, tentative expectations are to restart the 42,000-BBL/d Fluid Catalytic Cracker Unit (FCCU) 2 and 28,000-BBL/d FCCU Gasoline HDS unit on April 30.

Orsknefteorgsintez OJSC, on April 7, shut down its 125,100-BBL/d Orsk Refinery in Russia, as a precaution amid severe local flooding. The restart date is currently unknown. The impact on the ongoing maintenance turnaround of the 21,000-BBL/d AT-5 (Crude 5) and 12,600-BBL/d AV-5 (Vacuum 5) UVPM units also is unknown, but restart of the units could potentially be delayed. IIR will continue to monitor the situation and update accordingly.

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