Asia refinery 2025–2026 maintenance/outages
The table below lists planned and unplanned refinery shutdowns for 2025 and 2026 compiled through a survey of Asian oil refiners and market sources.
(* Marks latest updates on planned maintenance or outages)
Latest news:
- Taiwan's FPCC plans to shut crude, secondary units in March
- Japan's Eneos plans to shut Marifu CDU in mid-January for maintenance
- Sinopec Luoyang Petrochemical shuts crude units for maintenance
- China's Sinochem shuts one crude unit at Quanzhou after fire
Country Company/Location Unit Capacity (in '000 bpd unless specified) Timing 2026 TAIWAN* FPCC/Mailiao CDU No. 2, residual desulphurisation unit, residual catalytic cracker 540 Mid-March for 40 days until H2 April TAIWAN* FPCC/Mailiao One of two vacuum distillation units, one delayed coker unit and base oil unit Not specified October-November JAPAN* ENEOS/Marifu CDU 128 Mid-January - early April 2025 CHINA Sinopec/Beihai CDU 125 February 25 to April 25 CHINA CNOOC/Huizhou CDU 220 early March, for up to 2 months CHINA Sinopec/Jiangsu CDU 290 end-March to mid-May CHINA Sinopec/Jiujiang CDU 150 March 15 to May 10 CHINA Sinopec/Gaoqiao CDU 260 March 20 to May 20 CHINA Sinopec/Tianjin No. 3 CDU 220 April 16 to June 14 CHINA Sinopec/Jinling CDU 380 April 1 to May 25 CHINA Sinopec/Hainan CDU 184 early April to end-May CHINA Sinopec/Shanghai CDU 320 October 9 to December 7 CHINA* Sinochem/Quanzhou CDU 300 November 25, 2 months CHINA PetroChina/Dalian CDU 200 End June, full closure for relocation CHINA* Sinopec/Luoyang CDU 240 November INDIA MRPL/Mangalore CDU 144 Mid-May, for 30-45 days INDIA Reliance/Jamnagar Refinery 660 April 9 for 21 days INDIA IOC/Gujarat Refinery 360 June-July INDIA Bharat/Bina Refinery 156 August 11 for 15 days TAIWAN Formosa/Mailiao RFCC 540 March 3 for 84 days TAIWAN Formosa/Mailiao Refinery 540 No.2 residue hydrodesulphurisation unit from September 16 to October 26, No.2 residual fluid catalytic cracking unit from September 9 to November 3 (Crude processing reduced to 360,000 bpd from 500,000 bpd) TAIWAN CPC Corp/Talin CDU 150 Mid September to second half of November S.KOREA SK Energy/Ulsan CDU 110 end-May to end-June S.KOREA SK Energy/Ulsan HDS 40 mid-March to mid-May S.KOREA GS Caltex/Yeosu CDU 330 end-Feb to end-March JAPAN Eneos/Chiba CDU 129 January 22 - end-March JAPAN Eneos/Mizushima-B No. 3 CDU 105 Febuary 26 to June 3 JAPAN Eneos/Mizushima-B CDU 141 May 16 to early July JAPAN Idemitsu/Yokkaichi No. 3 CDU 155 May 19 to August 11 JAPAN Fuji Oil/Sodegaura CDU 143 May 9 to July 21 JAPAN ENEOS/Kawasaki No. 3 CDU 77 August 9 to late November JAPAN Idemitsu/Aichi CDU 165 October 8 (undisclosed end date) JAPAN Cosmo/Sakai CDU 100 August 27 to October JAPAN ENEOS/Kawasaki No. 2 CDU 172.1 August 16 to late November UNPLANNED TURNAROUND: Country Company/Location Unit Capacity ('000 bpd unless specified) Timing/Reasons 2025 S.KOREA SK Energy/Ulsan CDU 170 February 26 for 2 weeks JAPAN Eneos/Sakai CDU 140 February 17 (Fire, undisclosed end date) JAPAN Eneos/Oita CDU 136 January 21- January 27 (unknown) JAPAN Eneos/Kawasaki No. 2 and No. 3 CDU 249.1 April 21 - May 7 (reason undisclosed) JAPAN Eneos/Kawasaki No. 3 CDU 77 June 4 to June 5 (reason undisclosed) JAPAN Eneos/Mizushima-B No. 2 CDU 95.2 April 24 - May 16 (reason undisclosed) JAPAN Eneos/Sendai CDU 145 May 23 (undisclosed reasons or end date) JAPAN Cosmo/Chiba CDU 102 May 29 (undisclosed reasons or end date) MALAYSIA Prefchem/Pengerang RFCC 70 End January - May 19 (technical problems) MALAYSIA Prefchem/Pengerang RFCC 540 September 29, aiming to restart within a week (reason undisclosed) CHINA* Sinochem/Quanzhou No. 1 CDU 240 November 14, unspecified
AU - Aromatic Unit
CCU - Catalytic Cracker Unit - makes gasoline
CDU - Crude Distillation Unit - refines crude into products
CFU - Condensate Fractionation Unit
CSU - Condensate Splitter Unit
CCR - Catalytic Reformer
DCU - Delayed Coking Unit
DHDS - Diesel Hydro Desulphurisation Unit
FCC - Fluid Catalytic Cracker - makes gasoline
FCCU - Fluidized Catalytic Cracker Unit
FOHDS- Fuel Oil Hydro Desulphurisation Unit
HOU - Heavy Oil Upgrading - refines fuel oil to lighter products
HCC - Hydro Catalytic Cracker - produces middle distillate fuels
KHDS - Kerosene Hydro Desulphurisation Unit
KHU - Kerosene Hydrotreating Unit
LRCC - Long Residue Catalytic Cracker
RFCC - Residual Fluid Catalytic Cracker - makes gasoline, propylene
RDS - Residual Desulphuriser - reduces sulphur content in product
RHDS - Residue Hydro Desulfurization Unit
RHDS - Residue Hydro Desulphurisation Unit
TBA - To be announced
VDU - Vacuum Distillation Unit
VGO - Vacuum Gasoil Hydrotreater
VRDS - Vacuum Residual Desulphuriser
VSB - Visbreaker
** - thousand tons per year
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