Maintenance & Reliability
Rosneft’s Ryazan refinery suspended crude processing after drone strike
Ukraine has ramped up drone attacks deep inside Russia, aiming to knock out oil refineries, depots and pipelines. Ukrainian drones have struck at least 17 major refineries this year.
Vietnam's Nghi Son to keep high crude runs despite derivative unit maintenance
There will be no major impact on main refinery operations, the spokesperson said, adding the November partial shutdown will include some works at its hydrogen manufacturing unit and a catalyst change at its residue hydrodesulphurization unit.
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.
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