Released December 21, 2020 | SUGAR LAND
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North America
ExxonMobil continues with plans for a 60-day turnaround of four units, in late January or early February, at its 557,000-BBL/d Baytown, Texas, refinery.
Valero completed minor maintenance on four units on December 20 at its 175,000-BBL/d McKee Refinery in Sunray, Texas.
Pemex TRI continues with a planned turnaround at its 270,000-BBL/d Cadereyta, Mexico, refinery. The 120-ton-per-day SRU 5 and SRU 6 units began corrective repairs on November 23; the 6,000-BBL/d HF Alkylation 1 unit has been in a preventive turnaround since November 17; while the 120,000-BBL/d Combinada 1 (Crude 1) has been offline since early May, due to COVID-19 risks and has been under preventive repairs since August 24. Completion is scheduled for late December or early January and depends on the available labor force. The 150,000-BBL/d Combinada 2 (Crude 2) unit is running at 110,000 BBL/d; the remaining operational units are processing at approximately 40% of normal capacity.
International
Novokuibyshevsk Refinery OJSC completed a planned maintenance turnaround, which began December 4, of the 9,000-BBL/d Hydrotreater L-24-6/3 (Stream 1) unit on December 11 at its 400,000-BBL/d Novokuibyshevsk Refinery in Russia.
Petroineos France SAS restarted the 218,000-BBL/d Topping 5 distillation crude unit on December 18 at its 218,000-BBL/d Lavera Refinery in France. The unit was shut down on December 9 due to unplanned mechanical issues.
Homs Refinery Company (HRC) has accelerated the planned shutdown of five units at its 121,000-BBL/d Homs Refinery in Syria. Originally scheduled for March 1, the turnaround began on December 9. Expectations are to complete repairs and restart the units by January 7. Separately, the 30-day planned turnaround of seven units, initially scheduled to begin by March 1, has been rescheduled for January 9. The units are expected to come online by February 7, but will continue to operate at approximately 60% capacity until January 8 due to a crude shortage.
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