IIR Energy Top Refining News Today: October 18th 2019

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North America
Marathon remains on schedule to conduct a plant-wide maintenance turnaround in early January next year at its 103,500-BBL/d Wilmington, California, refinery. Units involved include the Lone Crude and 41,000-BBL/d Delayed Coker.

Calumet Lubricants will begin out procedures today, October 18, for a plant-wide maintenance turnaround at its 60,000-BBL/d Shreveport, Louisiana, refinery. The first maintenance day will be on Monday, October 21. The event is expected to last about 35 days and will be completed around November 21.

Phillips 66 shut down the 18,500-BBL/d Reformer 244 on October 17, and is in the process of shutting down the 16,740-BBL/d Unisar Jet/Diesel Hydrotreater 248 for the planned turnaround at its 82,000-BBL/d Rodeo refinery in California. Meanwhile, the 23,000-BBL/d Hydrocracker 246 continues with planned repairs that began on October 3. The event was extended in part due to a fire at the next-door NuStar Terminal that occurred on October 15. As a result, the work has been temporarily halted and the night shift has been cancelled while investigations are underway.

International
YPF SA continues running at 85% of total capacity at its 205,000-BBL/d La Plata refinery in Argentina. Online units are to be kept at that rate throughout October.

Total Refining & Chemicals has failed to restart its 52,500-BBL/d FCC unit at its 230,000-BBL/d Donges Refinery in France. The unit was shut down on September 16 following a valve leak, and was expected to resume production around mid-October; however, due to a recent pipe blockage, which was detected during the restart procedures, the unit remains offline until early November.

Total SA started a planned maintenance turnaround on October 16 for its 48,000-BBL/d Solvent Deasphalting unit at its 360,000-BBL/d Solvent Deasphalting unit at its 360,000-BBL/d Antwerpen Refinery in Belgium. The four-week maintenance will include the replacement of column internals.

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