IIR Top Refining News Today: June 10th 2020

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North America
Shell will conduct a 55-day, plant-wide maintenance turnaround, which will start July 8, at its 225,000-BBL/d Scotford Upgrader Refinery in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada. The event was previously scheduled for July 1.

Imperial Oil today, June 10, will perform seven days of minor maintenance on the 130,000-BBL/d crude (mixed crude) unit at its 187,000-BBL/d Strathcona Refinery in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Pemex TRI on June 7 restarted five (and associated) units in the Hidro 1 area at its 325,000-BBL/d Salina Cruz, Mexico, refinery. The turnaround began on April 17, and was extended due to the limitation of contractors allowed into plants in response to COVID-19. Crude units are processing a total of 110,000 BBL/d, while other processing units are running at 30-35% of total capacity.

International
KirishiNefteOrgSyntez has rescheduled planned maintenance on the 56,000-BBL/d ABT-2 (Crude 1), 33,600-BBL/d ABT-2 (Vacuum 1) and 39,600-BBL/d Visbreaker units at its 420,000-BBL/d Kirishi Refinery in Russia. The planned maintenance is expected to kick off in early September.

Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) on June 6 restarted the 110,000-BBL/d CDU 2 and 8,000-BBL/d KHDS at its 320,000-BBL/d Kochi Refinery in India, at throughput that was derated by 30%. The units had been shut down since April 25 due to low demand as a result of COVID-19. The units are expected to resume full throughput by June 15. Additionally, BPCL has delayed the restart of the 50,800-BBL/d DHDS, 35,000-BBL/d VGOHDS and 35,000-BBL/d FCCU 1, which have been in a planned turnaround since April 25. Previously planned for June 5, the units are now expected to be back online on June 15.

Gazprom Neft PAO Moscow has performed a planned maintenance turnaround of five units at its 243,000-BBL/d Moscow Refinery in Russia. The turnaround began in March, and all works were completed by the end of May.

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