Petroleum Refining
Motiva to Perform Two More Turnarounds at Louisiana Refinery in June
Motiva Enterprises LLC (Houston, Texas), a joint venture between Royal Dutch Shell plc (NYSE:RDS-A) (The Hague, Netherlands) and...
Released Friday, February 04, 2011
Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Motiva Enterprises LLC (Houston, Texas), a joint venture between Royal Dutch Shell plc (NYSE:RDS-A) (The Hague, Netherlands) and Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco) (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), is planning to perform turnarounds on the 92,000-barrel-per-day (BBL/d) fluid catalytic cracking unit (FCCU) and the 16,000-BBL/d sulfuric alkylation unit at the company's 230,000-BBL/d refinery in Convent, Louisiana.
The turnarounds are scheduled to begin on June 17 and are expected to last 45 to 50 days, ending by August 1.
Motiva is planning to begin several other turnarounds at the Convent refinery on June 17. The other affected units will be the FCCU wet gas compressor; the 12,000-BBL/d isomerization unit; the 40,000 BBL/d gasoline desulfurizer unit; and the SRU 3 and 4 sulfur block units. All are scheduled to take about 46 days.
Motiva owns and operates three refineries in Louisiana. The 4,000-acre Convent refinery serves markets on the central Gulf Coast and in the southeastern United States.
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