IIR Top Refining News Today: October 12th 2020

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North America
Total on October 9, experienced a power outage due to high winds from Hurricane Delta that caused plant-wide shutdown at its 190,000-BBL/d Port Arthur, Texas, refinery. Restart is underway.

Suncor Energy on October 8, completed planned maintenance on the 32,000-BBL/d Hydrocracker at its 83,000-BBL/d Sarnia, Ontario, refinery.

Pemex TRI is assessing the 2021 maintenance turnaround program at its 270,000-BBL/d Cadereyta, Mexico, refinery. The plan is pending full approval from Pemex's headquarters and currently consists of a 45-day major maintenance turnaround on five units, while 15 days of minor works are expected on the 25,000-BBL/d FCCU 2 and 120-ton-per-day SRU 3. Completion is estimated for second-quarter 2021, but that has yet to be defined.

International
PDVSA on October 9, was forced to shut down the lone crude, 71,000-BBL/d Vacuum Distillation, 70,000-BBL/d FCC and associated units at its 140,000-BBL/d El Palito Refinery in Venezuela due to a fire on the FCC unit. The FCC, 8,500-BBL/d Cat Feed Hydrotreater and associated units had been restarted on September 23 after being offline since September 8. The units are expected to come online by late October, but will be kept at low rates due to recurrent mechanical issues and financial constraints.

Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) on October 10, restarted the 380,000-BBL/d CDU 2 at its 760,000-BBL/d Jamnagar SEZ Refinery in India, after an unplanned shutdown on September 22 due to leakage in a desalter pipeline. The unit has been operating at 83% capacity since October 11 due to low demand as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The unit is tentatively expected to resume full throughput by October 26.

Saudi Aramco on October 10, restarted its 550,000-BBL/d Ras Tanura Refinery in Saudi Arabia. The refinery, which includes nine major units, was under planned maintenance and a clean fuel hook-up shutdown since August 24.

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