Maintenance & Reliability
Taiwan's Formosa operates refinery at reduced rate due to maintenance
Taiwan's Formosa Petrochemical Corp. is operating its refinery at a reduced rate of 410,000 bpd due to maintenance at its delayed coker unit (DCU) this month.
Australia's Ampol ends Lytton refinery repairs, provides output forecast
Australia's top fuel retailer Ampol said on Friday it had completed repairs at its fluidized catalytic cracking unit (FCCU) at the Lytton refinery in Queensland, and now expects total production for 2024 to be 5.2 B liters (l).
Russian oil refinery runs in Nov. up 6% m/m
Russian refinery oil processing volumes in November are up by 6% versus October to 22.1 MM tonnes (5.4 MMbpd).
Russian Urals oil sales to Turkey in Nov. up 38% m/m as STAR refinery increases runs
Russian Urals oil supplies to Turkey's ports in November increased to 9.9 MMbbl from 7.4 MMbbl in October as its main consumer was back from outage.
NNPC's Port Harcourt resumes output in boost to Nigeria oil refining
Nigeria's Port Harcourt refinery has resumed production, marking the first of state-owned oil firm NNPC Ltd.'s four plants to return from upgrade work announced in 2020.
Russia's Lukoil restoring cracker at NORSI refinery, gasoline output rising
Russia's second-largest oil producer Lukoil is restoring operations of its catalytic cracker complex, ramping up gasoline output after the unit's breakdown on Nov. 13.
Japan's Cosmo Oil restarts 86,000-bpd Yokkaichi CDU after maintenance
Japan's Cosmo Oil, a unit of Cosmo Energy Holdings, has restarted the 86,000-bpd crude distillation unit (CDU) at the Yokkaichi refinery in central Japan on Nov. 9 after planned maintenance.
bp delays Whiting refinery (U.S.) restart from maintenance
bp has delayed the restart of a crude distillation unit and a coker at its 435,000-bpd Whiting, Indiana, refinery from maintenance.
Russia's Ilsky refinery has asked for gov't help over high rates, modernization
Russia's Ilsky oil refinery has applied for government financial help mainly due to high interest rates and facility modernization, but added there was no risk of it shutting down and that it remained profitable.
Reformer of Venezuela's second-largest refinery halted for repairs
The naphtha reformer of Venezuela's second-largest refinery, the 310,000-bpd Cardon, has been halted for maintenance and repairs following an equipment malfunction last week.
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