Petroplus' Coryton Refinery Performing Overhaul

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--The 163,000-barrel-per-day (BBL/d) refinery in Coryton, England, owned and operated by Petroplus Holdings AG (VTX:PPHN) (Zug, Switzerland), is undergoing a planned overhaul.

On September 26, the refinery began shutting down units to begin a two-month planned turnaround. The shutdown entails inspection, cleaning and regular maintenance of all the processing units. The overhaul has affected the crude unit, the 60,000-BBL/d fluid catalytic converter, the 18,000-BBL/d HF alkylation unit, the 55,000-BBL/d diesel hydrotreater, and the 34,000-BBL/d platformer, among other units. The units are expected to be brought online by the end of November.

Petroplus has scheduled the next overhaul of the refinery for the fourth quarter of 2013. Overhauls at the plant are generally performed every four years.

The Coryton refinery is located approximately 40 kilometers east of London on the Thames Estuary. It was commissioned in 1953 and acquired by Petroplus in May 2007. The refinery is an integrated atmospheric-vacuum distillation, fluid catalytic cracking refinery.

Petroplus is Europe's leading independent refiner and wholesaler of petroleum products. Every day, a wide variety of fuels are produced and distributed by almost 3,000 employees throughout Europe. The company provides petroleum products to both distributors and wholesale customers primarily in Switzerland, Germany, the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxemburg. Petroplus owns two refineries in the U.K.: the Coryton refinery and the 117,000-BBL/d Teesside refinery, which is up for sale. For more details, view related, July 24, 2009, article - Petroplus Teesside Refinery Up for Sale.

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