Maintenance & Reliability

Russia's idle oil refining capacity revised up by 30% in May

Russia's offline primary oil refining capacity has been revised up by 29.5% in May from the previous plan to 3.41 MM tonnes (t).

Malaysia's Prefchem restarts gasoline unit after repairs since January

Malaysia's Pengerang Refining Co. (Prefchem) has restarted one of its two residue fluid catalytic cracking (RFCC) units in the past week after shutting it for repairs early this year.

Nigeria's Dangote oil refinery cancels June maintenance at gasoline unit

Nigeria's Dangote oil refinery has cancelled June maintenance at its 204,000-bpd gasoline-making unit as it completed planned works during an unplanned shutdown from April 7 to May 11.

bp's 440,000-bpd refinery in Whiting, Indiana (U.S.) restarted reformer unit last week

bp brought back the 60,000-bpd reformer unit at its facility last Wednesday after shutting it down in late April due to unknown issues.

Chevron attempting to restart El Segundo, California refinery after taking units offline last week

thyssenkrupp Uhde successfully commissions EnviNOx® emission reduction system for Covestro’s NAUCI project in China

thyssenkrupp Uhde is proud to announce the successful commissioning of its EnviNOx® system for Covestro Polymers (China) Co. Ltd. at their nitric acid plant in Shanghai Chemical Industry Park. This state-of-the-art technology will significantly reduce nitrogen oxides and nitrous oxide emissions.

India's MRPL to shut crude unit for maintenance in mid-May

India's Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd will shut its 144,000-bpd crude distillation unit from mid-May for maintenance.

Japan's Eneos restarts two crude distillation units at Kawasaki after shutdown

Japan's largest refiner, Eneos Corp, restarted two crude distillation units at its Kawasaki refinery near Tokyo following an unplanned shutdown.

Venezuela restarts Carbon refinery's FCCU after a year out of service

Venezuela's second largest refinery, Cardon, restarted its fluid catalytic cracker which had been out of service for more than a year due to a failure and lack of raw materials

India's April diesel exports likely hit lowest level in over a decade

India's diesel exports likely hit their lowest level in over a decade in April as major exporter Reliance cut refining output for maintenance at a time when domestic demand was robust.