Maintenance & Reliability
bp says fire extinguished at Whiting, Indiana (U.S.) refinery
It was earlier reported that multiple units were offline at the refinery, which is the largest in the U.S. Midwest region.
Russia says refineries to postpone maintenance to saturate market
In September, Russia imposed a partial ban on diesel exports and extended a gasoline export ban, which applies to all exporters, until the end of the year.
Asia refinery 2024–2025 maintenance/outages
Planned and unplanned refinery shutdowns for 2024–2025 compiled through a survey of Asian oil refiners and market sources.
Gasoline unit at Dangote refinery expected to restart on October 14
The plant, which began processing crude in January 2024, exported a higher volume of fuel oil in September than previous months.
Taiwan's CPC Corp. shuts one crude unit at Talin for maintenance until November
The 150,000-bpd crude unit and some gasoline-producing units were shut around the middle of September.
Indonesia's Pertamina completes oil storage tank construction to support refinery upgrade
The overhaul of the Balikpapan facility is nearly finished and operations are scheduled to begin in November.
Idemitsu shuts 165,000-bpd Aichi CDU for scheduled maintenance
Its smaller rival Cosmo Oil, a unit of Cosmo Energy Holdings, also shut the 100,000-bpd CDU at its Sakai refinery in western Japan on August 27 for scheduled maintenance, with operations expected to resume in October.
Malaysia's PRefChem shuts both residual fluid catalytic cracking units
The Johor-based refiner is trying to bring the units, which typically upgrade residual fuels into higher-value products such as gasoline, back online this week.
Update: Chevron's Los Angeles (U.S.) refinery down after large fire erupted in jet fuel unit
The El Segundo refinery is the second largest in California and Chevron's second-biggest refinery in the United States. The facility supplies a fifth of all motor vehicle fuels and 40% of the jet fuel consumed in southern California.
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