Released December 30, 2019 | SUGAR LAND
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North America
Phillips 66 initiated restart procedures today, December 30, on the 15,600-BBL/d Reformer 80; 20,000-BBL/d Reformer 100; and 19,000-BBL/d Unifiner 99 units at its 133,000-BBL/d Wilmington, Los Angeles, refinery. The units are expected to return to service over the next 24 to 48 hours, after they were shut down due to a fire in a boiler area on December 25.
International
Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat OAO has scheduled planned maintenance on the 7,200-BBL/d Reformer L-35-6 unit at its 208,500-BBL/d Salavat Refinery in Russia. The unit is expected to be shut down in September 2020.
Homs Refinery Company (HRC) restarted four units on December 27 at its 121,000-BBL/d Homs Refinery in Syria. The units were forced to shut down on December 21 due to an air strike. Since restart, the units have been operating at 60% throughput due to furnace damage and a crude shortage. Expectations for the units are to resume normal operations by July 15, 2020.
YPF SA was forced to shut down all processing units at its 113,200-BBL/d Lujan de Cuyo Refinery in Argentina on December 28, due to a power blackout that affected a large portion of Mendoza province. The restart process began 12 hours after the incident. Units are back online, processing at 75-80% of total capacity.
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