Today's Refining Hotline Headlines

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North America
Suncor, on October 10, started a 49-day planned maintenance turnaround of four units at its Upgrader in Fort McMurray, Alberta.

Pemex TRI is performing planned repairs and inspections on the 22,500-barrel-per-day (BBL/d) Reformer 3 (CCR 3) and 28,500-BBL/d Naphtha Hydrotreater 2 (HDS 2) at its 243,000-BBL/d refinery in Salamanca, Mexico. The units are expected to be back online by October 19. Separately, the refinery continues to operate at reduced rates, approximately 140,000 BBL/d, due to feedstock controls related to company finances and market conditions.

International
KirishiNefteOrgSyntez has started planned maintenance at its 420,000-BBL/d Kirishi Refinery in Russia. The LK-2B Complex along with the 14,000-BBL/d Parex-1 (Area 9) units were shut down in early October for a planned major turnaround and regeneration. The Parex-1 restart is expected in mid-October, and the turnaround of the LK-2B Complex is expected to take about six weeks to complete.

Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) continues with a planned minor maintenance turnaround of the 69,000-BBL/d Crude Distillation Unit (CDU) 3 at its 267,000-BBL/d Sitrah Refinery in Bahrain. Expectations are to restart the unit on October 26. Additionally, BAPCO has delayed the restart of the 18,000-BBL/d Reformer and 60,000-BBL/d Mild Hydrocracker units, to October 16.

Bashneft ANK OAO continues with planned maintenance on the 42,000-BBL/d Zheksa (GO) Diesel Hydrotreater unit at its 142,000-BBL/d Novoil-Ufa Refinery in Russia. The completion has been pushed out to late October.

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