EU Refinery Maintenance

The latest update on the European refinery maintenance schedule according to Bloomberg.

• In Germany, the planned maintenance at BP’s Gelsenkirchen crude unit is ongoing, limiting availability by 120kbpd. Maintenance is scheduled to end 14 October. 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 works on the FCC and alky units will limit output by 62kbpd.
• Tamoil’s Tarnoil Hamburg refinery will have turnarounds until 14 October, limiting availability by 105kbpd.
• Gunvor’s Ingolstadt refinery saw decreased furnace stack activity at the 35kbpd CDU during the late afternoon of 21 September. There has been no update since then according to Wood Mackenzie.
• In the UK, Valero’s 220kbpd Pembroke refinery will be shut down until 31 October. The dates for the maintenance are not final.
• Essar Energy’s Stanlowe refinery went offline on 20 September and will return on 15 November. The halt to the CDU and VDU is limiting output by 195kbpd.
• In Sweden, Preem AB’s Gothenburg refinery has planned works until 11 Oct affecting 75kbpd.
• In Portugal, Galp’s 220kbpd Sines refinery is scheduled to halt on 2 Oct until 24 Nov.
• 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.
• In the Netherlands, Shel’s Pernis refinery saw increased activity at the 25kbpd hycon unit in the morning of 22 September. The unit was shut on 19 September and scheduled to return on 25 September according to Wood Mackenzie’s latest alert.
• In France, PetroIneos’ Lavera refinery has halted a unit on 26 September based on a community alert.