Today's Refining Hotline Headlines

North America
Irving Oil is in the process of completing planned maintenance (known as Operation Ram) at its 300,000-barrel-per-day (BBL/d) refinery in Saint John, New Brunswick. The event is expected to be finished by November 13.

Monroe Energy LLC is in the process of restarting four units and associated units at its 195,000-BBL/d refinery in Trainer, Pennsylvania, after completing planned maintenance. Additionally, work on the 68,000-BBL/d Fluid Catalytic Cracker Unit (FCCU) and 12,000-BBL/d Hydrofluoric Alkylation (HF Alky) Unit continues and is scheduled to be completed on November 16.

International
Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) delayed the restart of four units at its 760,000-BBL/d Jamnagar SEZ Refinery in India due to additional repairs needed. The restart now is expected by November 10.

Formosa Petrochemical Corporation (FPCC) continues with an unplanned shutdown of the 84,000-BBL/d Residue Fluid Catalytic Cracker Unit (RFCCU) at its 540,000-BBL/d Mailiao Refinery in Taiwan. Expectations are to complete repairs for boiler piping issues and restart the unit by November 20. Also underway is a planned turnaround of the 180,000-BBL/d Crude 02 and 80,000-BBL/d Vacuum Distillation 1 units, which are expected to wrap up by December 2 and December 28, respectively.

Chinese Petroleum Corporation (CPC) delayed the restart of the 150,000-BBL/d Crude Topping Unit 12 at its 350,000-BBL/d Talin (Dalin) Refinery in Taiwan due to additional repairs needed. The restart now is tentatively expected by November 16. Also scheduled to restart by then are the 80,000-BBL/d RFCC, 20,000-BBL/d Gasoline HDS 3 and 14,000-BBL/d alkylation units.

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