Maintenance & Reliability
Digital Exclusive—Valve maintenance: An open and shut case?
Maintaining valves throughout a plant’s lifetime helps to preserve optimal performance, minimize supply disruptions and reduce environmental impacts; however, it can be challenging. Remote locations, extreme operating conditions and the often-aggressive properties of the fluids being transported can pose specific servicing and maintenance challenges.
Ghana's Tema oil refinery restarts after 9-yr shutdown
Refining began on December 19 at the 45,000-bpd refinery, which had been shut since 2017.
Eneos plans to shut Marifu CDU in mid-January for maintenance
The refiner, a unit of Eneos Holdings, restarted the 172,100-bpd No. 2 CDU at its Kawasaki refinery near Tokyo on November 21 after it had been shut since August 16 for a planned turnaround.
Asia refinery 2025–2026 maintenance/outages
The table lists planned and unplanned refinery shutdowns for 2025 and 2026 compiled through a survey of Asian oil refiners and market sources.
HF Sinclair forecasts lower CAPEX in 2026 on reduced maintenance costs
U.S. refiners have been focusing on maintenance activities after operating at breakneck capacity in 2022 following supply shortages stemming from Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Aster to carry out further upgrades at Singapore Bukom refinery
The plans include a previously announced project to spend $75 MM to revitalize its condensate splitter unit which it acquired in June, and $71 MM on its lube oil complex to produce higher-value base oils.
- Meghna PVC partners with Jotun to manage corrosion maintenance 5/7
- TA'ZIZ and Alpha Dhabi Holding agree to $10-B, 2.2-MMtpy of chemicals investments in the UAE 5/6
- Borouge to deliver first batch of cross-linkable polyethylene from new 100,000-tpy plant this quarter 5/6
- LyondellBasell completes sale of select European strategic assessment assets 5/6
- Australia commits $7 B to boost fuel stockpiles, create government reserve 5/6
- Israel to transfer jet fuel to Germany following Hormuz crisis 5/6
