Macedonia's Okta Refinery Resumes Operations

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--The 54,000-barrel-per-day (BBL/d) OKTA refinery in Skopje, Macedonia, has finished month-long full shutdown. The small refinery is owned by the Greek public company Hellenic Petroleum SA (ATH:ELPE) (Aspropyrgos, Greece) and is operated by OKTA (Skopje).

The overhaul involved all the units from the production site. The shutdown affected the Atmospheric Distillation Unit, the 14,000-BBL/d Gasoline Hydrodesulfurization Unit, the 4,700-BBL/d Kero Hydrodesulfurization Unit, the 8,700-BBL/d Gas Oil Hydrodesulfurization Unit, the 3,000-BBL/d Light Naphtha Isomerization Unit, the 10,200-BBL/d Catalytic Reformer, the 1,500-BBL/d Liquid Petroleum Gas Recovery Unit, the Monoethanolamine Unit, and the Sulfur Recovery Unit. Units were offline for 33 non-production days.

The refinery has restarted operations after performing cleaning and inspection. During the first weekend of October, units were restarted in sequence. All units are currently online, and authorities expect to perform the next shutdown in the second quarter of 2010, as part of the usual turnaround cycle.

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