EU Refinery Maintenance

Update on the European refinery maintenance schedule according to Bloomberg.

• In Germany, the planned maintenance at BP’s Gelsenkirchen crude unit began, affecting 120kbpd. Maintenance is scheduled to end 14 Oct. The refinery is also planning a partial shutdown of another unit later this autumn.
• Shell’s Miro Refinery will end annual maintenance on 31 October. Planned work on the FCC and alky units will limit output by 62kbpd.
• Tamoil’s Tarnoil Holborn refinery will have turnarounds until 14 October, limiting availability by 105kbpd.
• In the UK, Valero’s 220kbpd Pembroke refinery will be shut down until 31 October. The dates for the maintenance are not final.
• In Sweden, Preem AB’s Gothenburg refinery has planned works until 11 Oct affecting 75kbpd.
• In Hungary, works are ongoing at MOL’s Szazhalmbatta refinery’s 70kbpd CDU unit and are scheduled to end on 25 Sept.
• In Portugal, Galp’s 220kbpd Sines refinery is scheduled to halt on 2 Oct until 24 Nov.
• Spain’s Bilbao refinery restarted the boiler at Plant 3 on 20 Sept after being offline since mid-August.
• In Belgium, the unplanned outage at Total’s Antwerp refinery amid a flaring event that halted the 70.4kbpd FCC unit are scheduled to end on 18 Oct.
• The Cepsa Gibraltar refinery shut down the 130kbpd CDU on 11 Sept. Increased capacity was observed on 20 Sept. The 40kbpd VDU unit remains shut since 14 Sept.
• In the Netherlands, Shell’s Pernis refinery had an unplanned outage on 19 Sept that halted te Hycon unit, affecting 60.6kbpd. The unit is scheduled to restart on 23 Sept.
• Greece’s Hellenic Aspropygros refinery is scheduled to end maintenance on Friday.
• In France, Total’s Normandy, Gonfreville, refinery had a fault on 11 September. The 28kbpd VDU was restarted on the evening of 18 September according to Wood Mackenzie.