Released November 18, 2020 | SUGAR LAND
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North America
Enterprise Product Partners is on schedule to perform a 35-day turnaround of the 1.65 million-pound-per-year propane dehydrogenation (PDH) unit at its Mont Belvieu, Texas, NGL Fractionator Complex. The unit is expected to shut down in February 2021 and restart in March.
Motiva restarted the 80,000-BBL/d HTU 5 Diesel HT (ULSD) on November 17 at its 600,000-BBL/d Port Arthur, Texas, refinery. The unit was shut down on October 21 for planned maintenance.
PBF Torrance Refining LLC has pushed a planned maintenance turnaround of the 100,000-BBL/d FCCU at its 155,000-BBL/d Torrance, California, refinery, from January 2021 to July 2021 due to COVID-19 concerns. PBF continues with rate reductions due to a lack of auto fuel and product demand as a result of the pandemic.
International
Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) continues to operate its 760,000-BBL/d Jamnagar SEZ Refinery in India at approximately 86% due to low demand as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The 380,000-BBL/d CDU 1 is operational at 89%, while the 380,000-BBL/d CDU 2 is operational at 83%. The CDU 1 and CDU 2 are tentatively expected to resume full throughput by December 1.
Mineraloelraffinerie Oberrhein GmbH & Co KG remains on schedule for a 40-day planned maintenance turnaround at its 309,000-BBL/d Miro Refinery in Karlsruhe, Germany, which involves seven (and associated) units. The turnaround is scheduled to kick off in March 2021.
BP Oil Espana SA has rescheduled a 30-day turnaround at its 104,000-BBL/d Castellon Refinery in Spain. The work, aimed at performing catalyst change-out and regeneration on hydrotreaters, initially scheduled for November, is tentatively set to take place in early December. The remaining units at the refinery will shut down as a sympathy outage. Separately, the refinery continues to process at 70% capacity due to low market demand related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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