Maintenance & Reliability

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Dangote refinery's gasoline unit operating at 60% capacity

The outage on the unit, which began in late August, helped improve export economics from Europe to West Africa to cover the shortfall, boosting European gasoline refining margins.

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.

Update: ExxonMobil restarts FCCU at Texas refinery

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.