Released January 27, 2021 | SUGAR LAND
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North America
Marathon Petroleum remains on schedule for a 57-day planned maintenance turnaround, which includes six units, in late February at its 437,000-BBL/d Galveston Bay Refinery in Texas City, Texas.
ExxonMobil has restarted the 98,000-BBL/d FCCU at its 230,000-BBL/d Joliet, Illinois, refinery after it was shut down on January 25.
Chevron restarted the 35,000-BBL/d Light Cycle Oil Hydrotreater, today, January 27, at its 100,000-BBL/d Pasadena, Texas, refinery after being shut down on January 13.
International
LUKOIL-Volgogradneftepererabotka LLC has completed a planned reconstruction of the 7,300-BBL/d Delayed Coker No.60 (21-10/7) unit at its 334,000-BBL/d Volgograd Refinery in Russia. The unit was shut down on October 1 and was restarted in early January.
PDVSA, on January 24, was forced to shut down all processing units at its 295,000-BBL/d Cardon Refinery in Venezuela due to an insufficient crude oil supply. The 77,000-BBL/d FCC, 75,000-BBL/d Crude 1 and associated units had been online since early November, but were processing at low rates due to a shortage of feed and mechanical issues. A restart date has not been disclosed at this time.
Esso Raffinage SAF continues with a minor plant-wide shutdown at its 140,000-BBL/d Fos-sur-Mer Refinery in France. The shutdown kicked off on January 4, and completion is tentatively expected by the end of January.
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