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.
• Exxon’s Fawley refinery is preparing the restart of a unit that went offline on 2 October in an unplanned outage.
• Phillips 66 Humber refinery shut down a 48kbpd coker unit on 29 September. There has been no update on the restart yet according to WoodMac.
• 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 France, PetroIneos’ Lavera refinery has halted a 37kbpd FCC on 29 September according to WoodMac.
• In Italy, Eni’s Milazzo refinery has an unplanned halt on 28 September of a 111kbpd CDU. The unit restarted on 2 October.
• Eni’s Sannazzaro refinery’s 42kbpd FCC was shut down on 2 October in an unplanned outage.