May 20 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
PBF's 160,000-barrel-per-day (BBL/d) refinery in Toledo, Ohio, restarted its 79,000-BBL/d FCCU on May 15 at a 30% rate reduction, but its 80,000-BBL/d Crude 5 unit remains offline with no set restart date due to lower product demand.

Nayara Energy Limited has operated its 405,000-BBL/d Vadinar Refinery in India at approximately 90% capacity since May 15. The refinery previously was derated by 15% beginning April 28 due to low demand. The refinery is expected to gradually resume full throughput by May 30.



PETROCHEMICAL HIGHLIGHTS
PetroIneos Manufacturing Scotland Limited has cancelled a planned maintenance turnaround at its Grangemouth Olefins & Polymers Plant, U.K. The 2-month maintenance turnaround of its Ethylene KG Unit was scheduled to kick off in August 2020, but has been cancelled due to COVID-19.



POWER HIGHLIGHTS


ALTERNATIVE FUELS HIGHLIGHTS
POET Biorefining's ethanol plant in Macon, Missouri, remains operational, but is allowing only essential personnel on site.

KAAPA Ethanol LLC's ethanol plant in Ravenna, Nebraska, has been temporarily idled due to limitations on ethanol storage capacity.

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