May 18 COVID-19 Impact Report: Outages, Derates, Shutdowns and More

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Industrial Info's daily COVID-19 Impact Report gives you the latest inside intelligence on outages, derates, shutdowns, closures, delays and more caused by the pandemic, across the global energy and industrial landscape.

REFINING HIGHLIGHTS
Marathon is operating its 530,000-barrel-per-day (BBL/d) Garyville, Louisiana, refinery at a 20% rate reduction due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Marathon continues to evaluate production rates as demand increases across the state.

Ruhr Oel GmbH (BP Gelsenkirchen) has restarted the 70,000-BBL/d A8 Crude Topping Unit and the 40,000-BBL/d V3 Vacuum Unit at its 140,000-BBL/d Gelsenkirchen Scholven Refinery in Germany. The units had been shut down on March 18 due to low demand as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

HPCL-Mittal Energy Ltd (HMEL) has operated its 242,000-BBL/d Bathinda Guru Gobind Singh Refinery in India at 58% since May 10 due to low demand. Previously, the refinery was operating at 70%. The refinery is tentatively expected to resume full throughput by May 31.



PETROCHEMICAL HIGHLIGHTS
The majority of chemical manufacturers in India have resumed production after almost 35 days of lockdown due to COVID-19.



POWER HIGHLIGHTS


FOOD & BEVERAGE HIGHLIGHTS
The pandemic and ensuing shutdowns of meat-processing plants may force U.S. farmers to euthanize as many as 10 million pigs by mid-September to avoid overcrowding in their facilities, according to the National Pork Producers Council.

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