Industrial Info's Weekly North American Refining Report

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Industrial Info's weekly North American Refining Report gives you the latest inside intelligence on outages, derates, shutdowns, closures, delays and more. Tomorrow's news today...

Market Commentary:
What?!? Is that a 7.9 million barrel increase to inventories? I thought analysts were expecting another draw. Well, at least we witnessed a draw in gasoline stocks, as well as an increase in gasoline production at U.S. refineries, as gasoline demand returneth; though somewhat concerning as distillate stocks continue to grow.




*IIR Fundamental Analytics Graphics That being said, it does appear the hydrocarbon markets are finding their footing once again. WTI is even approaching $35. However, there remain uncertainties in regards to the OPEC+ cuts being extended -- meetings to discuss such are coming up in early June, as well as growing U.S.-China tensions. Not to mention, are the COVID times truly in our rear view mirror?

So interesting times indeed here in North America as one tries to get a good handle on the overall supply and demand picture and its impact on the energy industry. Therefore, within this North America Refining Report, Industrial Info hopes to shed some light on what is transpiring from a refinery operations perspective all the way down to the refinery level in Canada. The report incorporates a North America Refinery Map as well as an Area Chart to illustrate collectively when we can expect refinery capacity to return over the next month or so. For the U.S., IIR is providing a chart to indicate when we might expect the PADDs themselves to become healthier.

Petroleum Refining Highlights
May 29, 2020 ExxonMobil on May 29 completed a planned maintenance turnaround on the 240,000-barrel-per-day (BBL/d) Crude B, 45,000-BBL/d Delayed Coker, SRU 2 and Refinery 5 Gas Plant that started on March 24 at its 350,000-BBL/d Beaumont, Texas, refinery. Derates at the facility continue due to lack of fuel demand brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.

May 29, 2020 Shell, on May 28 shut down the 240,000-BBL/d Crude DU-5 (Distilling Unit) Sweet and Vacuum Flasher, for an 18-day planned maintenance (pit stop) at its 240,000-BBL/d Norco, Louisiana refinery. The first mechanical will be June 1; additional units involved include the 40,000-BBL/d Hydrocracker and 21,380-BBL/d Coker.

May 29, 2020 IIR has confirmed that SARA, a Rubis and Sol Group joint venture, has partially completed a planned plant-wide turnaround at its 16,000-BBL/d Antilles, Martinique, refinery. The facility, which was shut down on April 4 for planned repairs and also to cope with reduce product demand due to COVID-19 pandemic concerns, is scheduled to resume operations on June 5, instead of June 12 as previously reported. Additionally, IIR has learned that SARA will complete pending repairs from the mentioned plant-wide turnaround in October 2020, since only minor works were performed during this downtime. The October major work is expected to last around 40 days.

Map of North American Refineries impacted by COVID-19/non-COVID -- Ongoing Offline Events


North America Refining Index


North American Refining Area Chart
Canada Refineries


US PADDs



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