Today's Refining Hotline Headlines

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North America
Motiva, on August 30, shut down the 81,000-barrel-per-day (BBL/d) Fluid Catalytic Cracker Unit (FCCU) 3 for unplanned repairs at its 640,000-BBL/d refinery in Port Arthur, Texas. The cause is unknown at this time, but plant personnel hope to have the unit back online by this weekend.

Pemex TRI's 150,000-BBL/d Combinada 2 (Crude 2) unit at its 270,000-BBL/d refinery in Cadereyta, Mexico, remains offline due to inventory controls related to related to company finances. The unit was offline during July due to a lack of water supply. The 120,000-BBL/d Combinada 1 (Crude 1) is running at 110,000 BBL/d, while the rest of the processing units are being kept at approximately 40% of normal capacity.

International
State Company for Oil Products (SCOP) plans to start the test run of the lone Crude Distillation Unit (CDU) and 72,000-BBL/d Vacuum Distillation Unit (VDU) at its 140,000-BBL/d Karbala Refinery in Iraq by October 20; the commercial startup is tentatively scheduled for November 20.

ENAP Refinerias SA continues with the restart process at its 115,700-BBL/d Bio Bio Refinery in Chile. A plant-wide turnaround began on April 15, and it has been extended due to contractual constraints. The 50,300-BBL/d Topping 1 unit and 20,100-BBL/d FCCU are tentatively scheduled to restart by September 3. An upgrade project on the 13,000-BBL/d Delayed Coker is still underway, with the completion behind schedule. The unit may restart by early to mid-September along with the 15,700-BBL/d HDG (Gasoline Hydrotreater) Unit.

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