IIR Top Refining News Today: June 15th 2020

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North America
Marathon Petroleum on June 13 restarted the 140,000-BBL/d FCCU 3, after it was shut down on June 11, at its 437,000-BBL/d Galveston Bay Refinery in Texas City, Texas. Separately, the 50,000-BBL/d Ultraformer Feed HT 3 was shut on June 13. Additionally, Marathon continues with a turnaround of five units that began on May 25. The refinery is still derated because of low demand for auto fuel and products due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Imperial Oil continues minor maintenance, which started on June 10, on the 130,000-BBL/d crude (mixed crude) unit at its 187,000-BBL/d Strathcona Refinery in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Restart and return to normal operation are expected by June 20. Completion was previously set for June 14.

Marathon on June 12 restarted the 36,800-BBL/d Hydrocracker unit at its 103,500-BBL/d Wilmington, California, refinery, after it was shut for unknown reasons on June 9. The refinery is still derated due to COVID-19.

International
Bandar Abbas Oil Refining Company (BAORC) has rescheduled a 30-day planned maintenance shutdown of the 165,000-BBL/d Crude Distillation Unit 2 and 25,000-BBL/d Kerosene Hydrotreater unit at its 340,000-BBL/d Bandar Abbas Refinery in Iran, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The turnaround, which was previously reported to begin by July 1, now is tentatively expected to start by September 1. Expectations are to complete repairs and restart the units by September 30.

ENI Spa continues with a partial economic shutdown at its 247,000-BBL/d Sannazzaro Refinery in Italy, due to COVID-19. The 40,000-BBL/d FCC, 38,500-BBL/d HDC 1, 28,000-BBL/d HDC 2 (and auxiliary units) are scheduled to remain offline until the end of June. Meanwhile, the 116,000-BBL/d Topping Unit 1 restarted at the end of May, and is operating at approximately 80% of capacity. The 131,000-BBL/d Topping Unit 2 also is derated to approximately 80%. The units are expected to resume normal operations at the end of June.

Petronor SA continues with its shutdown of the 90,000-BBL/d Crude 2, 34,000-BBL/d Gasoil Hydrotreater HD3 and hydrogen units at its 220,000-BBL/d Bilbao Refinery in Spain, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and market conditions; the units went offline on May 9. The remaining units at the refinery are processing at 60% capacity. There are no current plans to restart the units or ramp up production.

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